Christopher Hitchens: Scientology is a Racket and a Con-Job

Christopher Hitchens is an academic whose expertise is debating and disputing controversial religious, philosophical and political issues.
Although famously anti-religious, Hitchins told an interviewer that he thinks all educated people should have knowledge of the Bible. He also confirmed that his children have been instructed in religious history.
However, in this brief clip he reveals his distain for Scientology by describing it as a Racket and a Con-Job.

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[NearlyShaoKahn]

Christopher Hitchens is a glorious SP

[DrakeDun]

"Nothing more than the record of a successful con job."

Succinct, articulate, and true. Nice.

[Sconezeta]

HAIL Christopher RIP you are missed!

[PointlessSteel]

@FuturePants Tongue-in-cheek? The sad truth is that there are many Scientologists who are plainly deluded, brainwashed, rotten.

[CelestialEmbodiment]

I'll vote for Dr. Paul.

[MerryGoFuckYourself]

@CelestialEmbodiment BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­

[CelestialEmbodiment]

Good riddance to the braying jackass Christ' Hitchens who supported the sanctions and the war of pelf against Iraq. [Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: "We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?"; Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it." — "60 Minutes" (5/12/96)]

[movcrit]

correction -- Christopher HItchens is not an academic by that he is not a scholar.

[acr08807]

@albert475 The Mormon church is far more interested in money than it is in polygamy.

[FuturePants]

@StigJensen123 Agreed.

At least Scientology is kind of tongue-in-cheek with the fact that people realize they are a bunch of con artists.

The church would die before hint that they might possibly be in it for the money/fame.

Heavens no!

[StigJensen123]

ALL religions are horrible disgusting cults! Christianity, Islam, Judaism etc etc are no better or worthy of more respect than Scientology