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Many new religions are created, but they dont survive after the death of the charismatic leader because theres no person to follow a period david miscarriage save scientology. They saved it from the mistakes hubbard made. 1993 dayold billion dollars for at the time. At the time, we at 129 million. Theyve decided we have to get our tax exemption. Saturday go about it . Been launched 2400 lawsuit against the irs and individual agents. They hired private detectives to go around to conferences where they trail people and find out whos drinking too much, who was sleeping around to publish articles in the magazines about this and pass them the steps of 1111 constitution avenue, which is headquarters of the irs. They intimidated the irs. Now whatever the merits of their case, those were the facts that surrounded their getting a tax exemption. It was you know, i just said they owed a billion dollars. The irs prime and 12 million did they forget the billion dollars. They gave them the authority