This is about Mike Rinder’s passing.

Of late he’s been an outspoken critic of Scientology since he left the movement, but he also dedicated his adult life to its cause.

Religion portends to be the final gate keeper, when you’re on death row for murdering a young family and no one wants to know you, a priest will still administer your last rites to you with sincere compassion.

It is a moral high ground religion likes to stand on. We won’t forsake you, no matter what, is a theme to those who ‘administer’ the decrees of our temples.

Religion is allowed to take this pedestal because they claim to defend our souls right to exist in some harmony beyond death… it’s a heady claim for sure and one that most religious people take much comfort in.

Scientology fails to prescribe to this and the recent passing of Mike Rinder screams this out.

If Scientology stopped disowning its detractors, it would abolish its label as a cult, by taking the moral high ground and showing forgiveness.

If it could only find some love and tolerance within it’s heart for its detractors… it would own the moral high ground and disown its label as a cult and even rank itself above the Catholic Church on any moral high ground.

But witness how quickly the Church of Scientology disowned Danny Masterson, and trust me, they told his wife to divorce him!

They won’t stand by you to the end. Or at all.

They will drop you in a heartbeat.

When you don’t fit into their plan.

It isn’t a religion, it is a cult.

What they forgot to say, is this:

“In his later life Mike unfortnately spoke of his time in the Church with some distaste. This is with considerable sadness, that Mike did not find a happy place within the Churches’ congregation. He spent many years of his life fighting for the betterment of humanity, he is a warrior, a fighter, a gifted soul who is forever trying. Mike has many friends within the congregation who all speak of his passing with much grief and wish him well. In the Church of Scientology, we don’t wish that our fallen rest in peace, instead we wish them well on their journey in the theta universe, the place where thought exists without a body. Some Scientologists may consider him an apostate but the Church has only one thing to say to Mike, ‘Bon Voyage, good Sir, you were an inspiration for the fight for humanity'”.

Scientology missed a chance at greatness by ignoring the passing of one of its founding members.

RIP Scientology.