On www.parishioners.org I am portrayed as an individual "attempting to curtail the rights of others to freely choose and practice their own religion". This is a blatant lie.

I never ever attempted to do anything even close to this. I have many friends of different religious convictions and the last thing I would want to do is to take away their religion or do anything that would reduce their freedom of religion or right to choose and practice it. It was first of all the testimonies from former members of CoS who reported that the cult robbed their freedom and put them under unhuman physical and mental pressure that made me protest CoS initially. Later I learned that the truth was even worse than I had imagined.

Scientology makes some good people into liars and abusers.

Best wishes, Andreas Heldal-Lund, Nunsteinvegen 9, N-4056 Tananger, Norway Pho: +47 90 04 32 99 Fax: 90 32 35 46 E-mail: ahl@xenu.net home.sol.no/~spirous www.xenu.net www.hedning.no/hedning --------------------------------------------------------------- "I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write."

[Voltaire, in a letter to M. le Riche, Feb. 6, 1770.

According to _They Never Said It_ (Paul F. Boller & John George), OUP, 1989, p. 125, it was not Voltaire, but his biographer, Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868-1919) writing under the pen name S.G. Tallentyre, paraphrasing Voltaire's attitude regarding a book censorship case in 1798. The phrase "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" is from S.G. Tallentyre _The Friends of Voltaire_ (London, 1906), 176-205.]

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