PODCAST: Marc Headley answers the question, would a Scientologist lie about Xenu?
On August 8, we posted a couple of videos for your consumption. One of them featured some young kids showing off their Scientology indoctrination at the Dublin Ideal Org.
Here’s what we said about the other video: “It turns out that all of this criticism about Scientology you’ve been seeing in recent years is a lot of hooey. At least that’s what the fascinating Tommy Scherer says in a video he posted this week.”
Scherer is a longtime Scientologist, roofer, and musician who recently turned to writing science fiction. At his modest YouTube channel, he has begun telling his readers about his involvement in Scientology. We heard from a tipster that Scherer was vigorously defending the church to his fans, and we thought the Bunker community would be interested in his reasoning.
We knew we could count on our commenters for some entertaining observations about Scherer, but we were taken by surprise when we heard from someone who said he’d known Tommy back in the day: It was the irrepressible Marc Headley, former Sea Org official and author of the excellent Scientology escape narrative, Blown for Good.
Headley explained that he’d known Tommy when he was just a kid, and he’d taken the time to write a lengthy response to Tommy’s video, which he posted in the video’s comments. In his message, Headley really took the time to explain to Scherer what he’d seen at the International Base and while working with David Miscavige.
Thinking that it might be interesting to find out what Scherer thought of Headley’s response, we sent him an email at his roofing company. But we haven’t heard anything back, and Tommy has not responded to Headley’s lengthy message.
But we decided it would be fun to talk to Marc about Scherer and the message he sent, and Marc did not disappoint. In fact, we wandered over a number of different topics and as usual Marc knocked us out with his hilarious stories of Sea Org life.
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I will be listening to the podcast in a couple of hours, but wanted to make an observation about Tommy. To his credit, he did not delete Marc’s comments. He left up the large majority of the comments. He did delete one I made, and in retrospect, I should not be surprised.
I linked to his completions on Truth about Scientology and asked him to verify that he, in fact had completed OTIII a minimum of twice according to the completions. He deleted that. I’m sure it had nothing to do with the question and everything to do with the fact that I had linked to the forbidden interwebz, so he had to quickly get that off his site.