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Mark Oppenheimer has spent the past year reporting on Scientology, and his articles for The New York Times Magazine<\/a>, Slate<\/a>, and elsewhere are some of the most informative and balanced that you’ll find anywhere. Mark has now turned his attention to Tom Cruise’s Scientology video, and in an article for Beliefnet he makes the case that Cruise is a particular kind of Scientology fundamentalist–and reminds us not to judge a whole religion by the antics of one fundamentalist. Read the whole thing here.
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