The new Irish census is in, and Scientology leader David Miscavige must be doing cartwheels.
After years of huge investment in the country, Scientology has shown massive growth, going from 87 members in the 2016 census, to now a whopping 132 members in the 2022 census, which was just released yesterday.
That’s more than a 50 percent increase in Irish people who identify as Scientologists! Hip, hip, hooray!
We have often been asked why Scientology has been spending so much money in Ireland, with a new “Ideal Org,” a community center, a national affairs office, and a Narconon drug rehab totaling many millions of dollars, as well as evidence that it has brought over many workers from other countries to staff these facilities.
Surely now the answer is clear: With 132 people identifying as Scientologists in a country of 5,149,139 souls, this island nation will be cleared in no time!
That might sound like a small percentage to some of you doubters, but Dave must be thrilled that the boatloads of cash he’s spending in Ireland is paying off so handsomely, and Scientology is now nipping at the heels of Satanism, which has 188 adherents in the country.
We can now add these new numbers to other recent census reports in the small number of countries that actually tally their Scientologists…
2022 Ireland: 132
2021 England and Wales: 1,854
2021 Canada: 1,380
2018 New Zealand: 321
2016 Australia: 1,684
Despite this groundswell in Ireland, we’re still looking at around 20,000 active Scientologists around the world, and nothing like the “millions” that the church always claims. (Such fibbers!)
Also, remember that we found some evidence that with such anemic numbers in its traditional strongholds, Scientology these days is largely becoming a Mexican and Taiwanese movement.
Danny Masterson retrial deliberations resume today
After a four day break, the Danny Masterson retrial is set to resume today, and the first thing we’re hoping is that we still have a full jury to continue deliberations.
If you remember, after the Thanksgiving break last year, the jury in the first trial lost a couple of members to Covid infections, which resulted in the panel not only having to replace them with alternates, but also for the deliberations to start all over again from the beginning.
Here’s hoping we don’t have to go through that again, especially with a jury that has already taken longer than the previous time.
Also, the evidentiary hearing into the leak of discovery material to Scientology is scheduled to take place this morning, and we’re very interested to see how that goes.
So watch your inboxes as our reports from court begin coming at you later today!
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I have to assume that all that increase in $cieno numbers is actually just the foreign workers that were brought in to run $cieno operations there. Isn't Ireland lucky to have such a nice bunch of immigrants.
Ok jury, get to it and give Masterson his verdict. It is long past time he was held responsible for his crimes. I wonder who 'leaked that info? I smell a rotten clam in the linguini.
Thanks so much for the morning chuckle, Tony. Characterizing the growth in Ireland as a "groundswell" was a priceless word choice.