Would you marry a Scientologist?

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65. I once had a friend who had briefly joined Scientology when she was really young.

She went through the initial indoctrination where they hook you up to that gizmo to measure your skin's electrical response as they're yelling at you, and was in it for a few weeks before she decided it was a fucked-up, mean cult.

After she withdrew, Scientology representatives started calling her to find out why she left, try to talk her back into returning, etc. The calls became more frequent, more insistent, finally vaguely threatening. Eventually they sent her a box of dead flowers. It was really chilling, she said. She contacted them and told them she was talking to a lawyer and would call the police if they kept it up -- fortunately for her that was the end of it.

Just imagine what they put people through who try to drop out when they've been a member of the "Church" of Scientology for years.

There are many documented cases of abusive behavior by Scientology officials toward ex-members of Scientology. Yes, other religions are bogus, but only a sick cult persecutes ex-members like that.

So would I marry somebody who's a part of that? Uh, no.