(An excellent story of how Karen escaped the cult of scientology and found truth & freedom in Jesus Christ.)
 
“People don’t understand how controlling Scientology is,” Karen says. “About 800 people work in the international headquarters and they give their entire life to the organization. We would work from 8 a.m. to midnight and were forbidden from having children because it would distract from our mission. Only customers, such as Tom Cruise, John Travolta and others who were paying for the instruction, were allowed to have children.

“But that’s part of the attraction of joining as a staff -– you could receive your instruction for free, and that is very attractive. But once when I considered leaving I discovered they would charge me $225,000 for the services [meals, housing, instruction] I had been provided in four years as a fulltime staff member. There was no way I could erase that debt.

 
FULL STORY at
http://www.baptistpress.net/bpnews.asp?ID=21407