The comparisons between how you looked when part of the Miscavige cult and how you are today with such a beautiful family, should be proof that you are on the right track. Have a fantastic new year and here’s to an end of the insane shenanigans of the RCS in 2015!
Happy times to you too, Mike and beautiful Christie and beautiful boys. (Sorry Mike, didn’t mean to exclude you here). Thank you, Mike, for all you do here, your ample publications and info, your incisive and informative writings and this whole unique blog!
You are one beautiful family! Health, happiness, peace and prosperity to the Rinders. Thank you, Mike, for your work and your wit and for your dedication to getting the truth out.
Beautiful picture and an Incredible year for this blog. It warms my heart to check in and read the postings and comments every day. There is a sense of sharp insight with a resolve and fair mindedness here that I find so admirable, especially considering how unfair and bullying the COS can be. Thank you so much Mike.
I have not really lot of admiration of your work .. but in the reverse I have a lot of admiration for that what you do .. it means, you give some light into the dark .. which means you give into the light what I see and realise for myself .. which means the promised benefits of Scientology went downscale to a state which no one of us wanted ever to see .. but, and this is what I mean .. we all lost something which was once very important for us .. so on, were we once all idiots or were we once good boys and girls who became then declared as suppressive .. lets say very simple, a person goes only suppressive if his goal becomes very badly degraded .. so you stand up and found a lot of friends .. congratulations .. and it finally says that we should promote the original goal ..
Thank you for providing accurate information about the COS during the last year, Mike. This is so important so that Scientologists can understand better how the organization has strayed from it’s original purpose under the “leadership” of DM.
Wow, Mike! Those young Rinders are really growing up!
Happy Holidays to you and your whole family and best wished for the New Year.
Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family 🙂
Just the other day I was struck by how precious the people we share our lives with are. Now I try to treasure every moment with them and make it nice for us. It’s hard to put this in words, but somehow I sensed that once basic needs are met, love is really the only thing that matters. Life is empty without it.
So here’s to a wonderful 2015 filled with love, life and laughter!
Gee, you know, when you leave the Sea Org, you end up in the gutter and become a DB and it’s soooo suppressive out there and you’ll just be so screwed up…. Oh, wait. I guess not.
That fine photo shows what life after the cult is really like!
Merry Christmas Mike – what a beautiful family!! All the money and John Lobb shoes will never give David Miscavige the ability to create anything close to what you have. We love you all and thank you for all the good work you do. You are a class act!
I only wish the very best to you Mike, Christie and kids. You are living proof that everyone has a New Chapter just waiting for them. Thank you so very much for what you given to all of us through your posts.
Cheers to 2016 and many, many, many more stories. xo Love Baby
Thank you for being a stable datum. When dejection and a lazer-clear certainty that all was not well was all we had, you came out and sided with the truth and held the fort with great integrity and dignity and strength- and humour!
I sure hope that someday we will all be able to have scientology the way it is meant to be, with everyone becoming actually more aware and families looking happy and bright like yours does. Your work is a bridge in that direction, for the other bridge has built a chasm between itself and where we stand. The Church has become exclusive. The church now i more of a Roman stadium- a sinister place of brutal conflict between slaves and criminals, orchestrated by and for the entertainment of the Elite, than the ‘oasis of theta’ it was meant to be. Only the remaining unknowing slaves still in there, crushed and forbidden to look out, fail to observe that. They fail to see that they are losing by winning.They think that their membership in the falling Empire’ earns them a status. They also believe there is no civilisation outside that Empire. This form of monopoly of people through the monopoly of knowledge, does lead to dark ages, if no one stands up against it before it is too late.
I speak from the perspective of someone whose family was twice wiped by the Church. Who by various means of making me into a witch thought themselves entitled to burn me on the stake.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
It is for this that Christmas is for, to celebrate good will, for truth and the love for one another as mankind.
Thank you for caring. Especially as you were up there with the elite. It means a lot to me that you have stepped out, and spoken up. My hat’s off to you.
Happy Holidays to you Mike and your wonderful family.
You are a great moderator guiding the various flows, facts and opinions on this blog.
Wishing a great and productive 2015 to you and all of the bloggers here.
Greta
What a beautiful family photo. Thank you for a great blog, and for showing those who are still in that there is room for happiness and joy in life. And for the exes and lurkers who share news and personal stories, thank you.
Wishing you all a terrific holiday season, with much joy in 2015. I’m sure we will find some reasons to celebrate in this coming year.
PS if you’re still in, today is a terrific day to blow for good. Real Life is good….try it.
I had an appropriate consideration about life after reading through all the compliments to Mike and comments on what a truly good looking family he has – compare that to what miscavige has…
All the money and power in the world means nothing when compared to the happiness and sense of belongingness a family can generate. Life may be rocky road but I sure as heck know what is truly important. All miscavige can do is hide in his bunker and count his money – entheta is his lot and he’s welcome to it! The $cientology organisation is a Christmas tale with a bad ending.
Mike, Christie, Shawn and Jack — I’m so glad your parents “fell in love” and have brought magic to your lives.
“You don’t fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like falling through space. It’s like you jump off your own private planet to visit someone else’s planet. And when you get there it all looks different: the flowers, the animals, the colours people wear. It is a big surprise falling in love because you thought you had everything just right on your own planet, and that was true, in a way, but then somebody signalled to you across space and the only way you could visit was to take a giant jump. Away you go, falling into someone else’s orbit and after a while you might decide to pull your two planets together and call it home. And you can bring your dog. Or your cat. Your goldfish, hamster, collection of stones, all your odd socks. (The ones you lost, including the holes, are on the new planet you found.)
And you can bring your friends to visit. And read your favourite stories to each other. And the falling was really the big jump that you had to make to be with someone you don’t want to be without. That’s it.
PS You have to be brave.”
Happy holidays to you and your family. What an attractive family! Your children are absolutely adorable. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into your blog. It’s appreciated.
Merry Xmas Mike and to your family!!!!… a great year of disclosures; hard hitting truth and bs breakdown – to go along with your personal twist and sarcasm to give it a ‘touch of class’…tks again!!!!
A fine looking family as there ever was and is! From me and all of us here at the Acropolis we wish you a Merry Xmas and the best of the coming New Year. Maybe we can do a similar movie of ‘The Interview’ and do it of the assassination of the leader of the Cult of Scientology. I wonder who we could get to play DM? Maybe Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf….or Peter Dinklage(possibly the best choice) altho Warwick Davis, Jordan Prentice, Vern Troyer or Deep Roy. There are many to choose from.
Anyway, we all appreciate your keeping our independence alive in this New World of ours.
Merry Christmas Christie, Mike, Shane and Jack and to all posters on this blog.
Thanks Mike, for keeping this blog up all year to expose the criminal cult and providing a place where the truth can be seen. You are a true friend to the former or current Scientologists. I hope at one Christmas very near future this house of cards built on a foundation of lies calling itself the COS will have collapsed. And if it does it will have done so to a large part because of this blog.
All signs indicate we will have a very happy new year.
Beautiful picture!
thank you for what you do day in and out.
Even on Christmas morning I wanted to open your page!
Joyeux Noel to you , your family and all!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Mike — You have a lovely family! Appreciate all that you do on the blog and elsewhere! May 2015 hold many blessings and opportunities for you!
Thank you for all your hard work in presenting the truth about the cult. I am very happy for you and your beautiful family. All the best for the new year and we’ll visit soon.
Sir, you have done much good with the circumstances that fell before you. Your blog is truly a testament to that. Have a wonderful new year!
All my best to the Rinder family.
Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday.
To those still in or under the radar, I hope this will be the last holiday you spend in the clutches of this evil, criminal organization. Know that we are waiting with open arms for you to come out and breathe the air of freedom.
Happy Holidays to you, Christie, Jack and Shane. Thank you for the great stories and your tiresome pursuit of the truth. We look forward to a wonderful 2015 along with you. Thank you my friend.
Mike, Merry Christmas to you and your family and best wishes to you all.
I thank you and many of your readers who have contributed towards helping others
determine their own truth about what the Church of Scientology really is.
Many of the stories I read here helped me make my own decision to leave
that group after having been a part of it for many years.
Happy Holidays to all and may you all reunite with your old friends and families
in the coming year.
Regraded Being
Thanks for bringing truth and civilization to Scientology
Thanks to you and your blog, 2014 marked the last year that English speaking, internet connected people were at any serious risk of becoming cult members.
Platinum discs did not save Scientology from becoming a squirrel cult, but you and others that left the cult and then spoke out DID save Scientology.
I am grateful to all of you that participate in this blog and wish you Merry Xmas and a prosperous and enlightening New Year
Merry Christmas Mike, and all on the fringe (a truly wonderful place to be).
I know 2015 will exceed all our expectations.
Thank you all for being able to be you.
Have a wonderful holiday season
GTBO
Greetings from down under. Great year Mike, you covered a lot stuff and did a great job. Best to you and yours this holiday season and 2015 will be really something – see you there!
MIke, Happy holidays and have the best year ever in 2015! Thank you for all you do for this blog. You are making a huge huge good difference. And loved your Xmas card. Your son looks just like you and the older one looks just like Christie. What a good looking family!
Mike: You and your lovely CONNECTED family have RINDERED (pardon the punny spelling) great SERVICE to FREEDOM and TRUE HUMANITARIANISM. Things that multi-billion $ business pretending to be a church will never do. I wish you all the best. Take a well deserved break, compare your situation to what it was a few short years ago, watch the drama unfurl, and have a lovely new year.
The comparisons between how you looked when part of the Miscavige cult and how you are today with such a beautiful family, should be proof that you are on the right track. Have a fantastic new year and here’s to an end of the insane shenanigans of the RCS in 2015!
Love the pic, Mike. I’m happy to see you and your lovely family looking so happy and well. Have the best new year ever!
Happy times to you too, Mike and beautiful Christie and beautiful boys. (Sorry Mike, didn’t mean to exclude you here). Thank you, Mike, for all you do here, your ample publications and info, your incisive and informative writings and this whole unique blog!
So happy to see you with such a nice family. What a great picture.
Cheers to you and your family. May the new year bring your family all good things.
You are one beautiful family! Health, happiness, peace and prosperity to the Rinders. Thank you, Mike, for your work and your wit and for your dedication to getting the truth out.
Beautiful picture and an Incredible year for this blog. It warms my heart to check in and read the postings and comments every day. There is a sense of sharp insight with a resolve and fair mindedness here that I find so admirable, especially considering how unfair and bullying the COS can be. Thank you so much Mike.
I have not really lot of admiration of your work .. but in the reverse I have a lot of admiration for that what you do .. it means, you give some light into the dark .. which means you give into the light what I see and realise for myself .. which means the promised benefits of Scientology went downscale to a state which no one of us wanted ever to see .. but, and this is what I mean .. we all lost something which was once very important for us .. so on, were we once all idiots or were we once good boys and girls who became then declared as suppressive .. lets say very simple, a person goes only suppressive if his goal becomes very badly degraded .. so you stand up and found a lot of friends .. congratulations .. and it finally says that we should promote the original goal ..
Thank you for providing accurate information about the COS during the last year, Mike. This is so important so that Scientologists can understand better how the organization has strayed from it’s original purpose under the “leadership” of DM.
Wow, Mike! Those young Rinders are really growing up!
Happy Holidays to you and your whole family and best wished for the New Year.
Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family 🙂
Just the other day I was struck by how precious the people we share our lives with are. Now I try to treasure every moment with them and make it nice for us. It’s hard to put this in words, but somehow I sensed that once basic needs are met, love is really the only thing that matters. Life is empty without it.
So here’s to a wonderful 2015 filled with love, life and laughter!
Gee, you know, when you leave the Sea Org, you end up in the gutter and become a DB and it’s soooo suppressive out there and you’ll just be so screwed up…. Oh, wait. I guess not.
That fine photo shows what life after the cult is really like!
Happy 2015!
-Gus
Thanx for everything!
Thanks, Mike. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas to you and your lovely family. I don’t see any bitter, defrocked apostates in the photo. Did they lie to me?
Ho, ho, ho!
Merry Christmas Mike – what a beautiful family!! All the money and John Lobb shoes will never give David Miscavige the ability to create anything close to what you have. We love you all and thank you for all the good work you do. You are a class act!
Merry Christmas to you, Christie, Jack and Shane. It has been a great year.
I only wish the very best to you Mike, Christie and kids. You are living proof that everyone has a New Chapter just waiting for them. Thank you so very much for what you given to all of us through your posts.
Cheers to 2016 and many, many, many more stories. xo Love Baby
OMG hahahha 2015
Happy Holidays Mike, Christie, Shane & Jack! Very best wishes. Thanks for all you do!
Beautiful family…..what a difference freedom makes! Cheers!
Holiday wishes to all and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.
Merry Christmas to you and your family. A happy new year and please keep up the good work in 2015.
Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family Mike.
What a fabulous family! (Didn’t know).
Thank you for being a stable datum. When dejection and a lazer-clear certainty that all was not well was all we had, you came out and sided with the truth and held the fort with great integrity and dignity and strength- and humour!
I sure hope that someday we will all be able to have scientology the way it is meant to be, with everyone becoming actually more aware and families looking happy and bright like yours does. Your work is a bridge in that direction, for the other bridge has built a chasm between itself and where we stand. The Church has become exclusive. The church now i more of a Roman stadium- a sinister place of brutal conflict between slaves and criminals, orchestrated by and for the entertainment of the Elite, than the ‘oasis of theta’ it was meant to be. Only the remaining unknowing slaves still in there, crushed and forbidden to look out, fail to observe that. They fail to see that they are losing by winning.They think that their membership in the falling Empire’ earns them a status. They also believe there is no civilisation outside that Empire. This form of monopoly of people through the monopoly of knowledge, does lead to dark ages, if no one stands up against it before it is too late.
I speak from the perspective of someone whose family was twice wiped by the Church. Who by various means of making me into a witch thought themselves entitled to burn me on the stake.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
It is for this that Christmas is for, to celebrate good will, for truth and the love for one another as mankind.
Thank you for caring. Especially as you were up there with the elite. It means a lot to me that you have stepped out, and spoken up. My hat’s off to you.
By their actions you shall know them.
God bless.
KL
KL
You echo my thoughts
Happy Holidays to you Mike and your wonderful family.
You are a great moderator guiding the various flows, facts and opinions on this blog.
Wishing a great and productive 2015 to you and all of the bloggers here.
Greta
What a beautiful family photo. Thank you for a great blog, and for showing those who are still in that there is room for happiness and joy in life. And for the exes and lurkers who share news and personal stories, thank you.
Wishing you all a terrific holiday season, with much joy in 2015. I’m sure we will find some reasons to celebrate in this coming year.
PS if you’re still in, today is a terrific day to blow for good. Real Life is good….try it.
Happy Holidays and 2015 to The Rinders. Thanks for being here, Mike.
I had an appropriate consideration about life after reading through all the compliments to Mike and comments on what a truly good looking family he has – compare that to what miscavige has…
All the money and power in the world means nothing when compared to the happiness and sense of belongingness a family can generate. Life may be rocky road but I sure as heck know what is truly important. All miscavige can do is hide in his bunker and count his money – entheta is his lot and he’s welcome to it! The $cientology organisation is a Christmas tale with a bad ending.
Happy holidays Mike, Christie and your families.
Thanks for being there.
Merry Christmas to the Rinder family! May happiness, health and prosperity be yours in the New Year!
Mike, Christie, Shawn and Jack — I’m so glad your parents “fell in love” and have brought magic to your lives.
“You don’t fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like falling through space. It’s like you jump off your own private planet to visit someone else’s planet. And when you get there it all looks different: the flowers, the animals, the colours people wear. It is a big surprise falling in love because you thought you had everything just right on your own planet, and that was true, in a way, but then somebody signalled to you across space and the only way you could visit was to take a giant jump. Away you go, falling into someone else’s orbit and after a while you might decide to pull your two planets together and call it home. And you can bring your dog. Or your cat. Your goldfish, hamster, collection of stones, all your odd socks. (The ones you lost, including the holes, are on the new planet you found.)
And you can bring your friends to visit. And read your favourite stories to each other. And the falling was really the big jump that you had to make to be with someone you don’t want to be without. That’s it.
PS You have to be brave.”
Opps — apologies to Shane … (not Shawn 🙁
Windhorsegallery,
What a great description of that phenomena! 🙂
Greta
What a beautiful family picture! It enough to make June and Ward Cleaver tear up with pride.
Merry Christmas to all the Rinder family!
Merry Christmas to you and your wonderful family. Thank you for your dedication and help, and for being there for all of us.
Happy holidays to you and your family. What an attractive family! Your children are absolutely adorable. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into your blog. It’s appreciated.
Bro, happy holidays to you and yours (including the ones still blindfolded).
Merry Xmas Mike and to your family!!!!… a great year of disclosures; hard hitting truth and bs breakdown – to go along with your personal twist and sarcasm to give it a ‘touch of class’…tks again!!!!
Merry Christmas Mike. Thanks for all your hard work.
I saw this quote and it seems to connect with all our efforts here.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Odd
The luckiest thing a person can have is, I think, a happy childhood.
-Agatha Christie
Beautiful family, Mike.
Makes my day feel like Christmas, just to see the photograph.
Thank you all year long for this post.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Agatha said that, too, but I wish it be mine.
Happy Holidays to you and your lovely family. May 2015 be the year of the downfall.
A fine looking family as there ever was and is! From me and all of us here at the Acropolis we wish you a Merry Xmas and the best of the coming New Year. Maybe we can do a similar movie of ‘The Interview’ and do it of the assassination of the leader of the Cult of Scientology. I wonder who we could get to play DM? Maybe Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf….or Peter Dinklage(possibly the best choice) altho Warwick Davis, Jordan Prentice, Vern Troyer or Deep Roy. There are many to choose from.
Anyway, we all appreciate your keeping our independence alive in this New World of ours.
Thanks Mike. Because of you many do not feel so alone.
Happy holidays.
overrunincalifornia you are so right. Me too, is all I can say.
This blog and all your years of media is so appreciated, it’s had an important impact on understanding Scientology and its history.
Merry Christmas
It’s wonderful to see you so happy, Mike and Christie. You deserve it.
We love you guys..
Merry Christmas Christie, Mike, Shane and Jack and to all posters on this blog.
Thanks Mike, for keeping this blog up all year to expose the criminal cult and providing a place where the truth can be seen. You are a true friend to the former or current Scientologists. I hope at one Christmas very near future this house of cards built on a foundation of lies calling itself the COS will have collapsed. And if it does it will have done so to a large part because of this blog.
All signs indicate we will have a very happy new year.
Beautiful picture!
thank you for what you do day in and out.
Even on Christmas morning I wanted to open your page!
Joyeux Noel to you , your family and all!
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Merry Christmas to the Rinders, and to the extended family
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Mike — You have a lovely family! Appreciate all that you do on the blog and elsewhere! May 2015 hold many blessings and opportunities for you!
Mike, I hope you all enjoy a beautiful Christmas day here in Tampa Bay.
Thank you for presenting this nice photo of you and your familiy .. I like it ..
Mike, warm and friendly thoughts go for you and your adorable family; a beautiful one. Enjoy it now and on the many days to come.
Thanks, Mike! Same to you guys!
Happy Christmas Mike and family.
Merry Christmas to all!
Thank you for all your hard work in presenting the truth about the cult. I am very happy for you and your beautiful family. All the best for the new year and we’ll visit soon.
Sir, you have done much good with the circumstances that fell before you. Your blog is truly a testament to that. Have a wonderful new year!
All my best to the Rinder family.
Merry Christmas Mike, Christie and family.
May 2015 bring you much joy and happiness.
Love, Piggus-AKA-Flexible-AKA-JL:
Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday.
To those still in or under the radar, I hope this will be the last holiday you spend in the clutches of this evil, criminal organization. Know that we are waiting with open arms for you to come out and breathe the air of freedom.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays from Area 51
may 2015 be the best ever.
It truly is a wonderful sight to see you guys enjoying a happy holiday. Beautiful family picture!
Merry Christmas to all. Here’s wishing 2015 is the best year yet!
+1
Wonderful picture of a wonderful family. Happy Holidays and Best Wishes to the Rinder family. The future is bright.
+1
Happy Holidays to you, Christie, Jack and Shane. Thank you for the great stories and your tiresome pursuit of the truth. We look forward to a wonderful 2015 along with you. Thank you my friend.
Mike, Merry Christmas to you and your family and best wishes to you all.
I thank you and many of your readers who have contributed towards helping others
determine their own truth about what the Church of Scientology really is.
Many of the stories I read here helped me make my own decision to leave
that group after having been a part of it for many years.
Happy Holidays to all and may you all reunite with your old friends and families
in the coming year.
Regraded Being
Amen.
Great, Mike! Curious as I’ve always been, is your wife an ex? Don’t feel audited to answer my “auditor”‘s question though 😉
Merry Xmas & Happy New Year
All my best to you and your family
Thanks for bringing truth and civilization to Scientology
Thanks to you and your blog, 2014 marked the last year that English speaking, internet connected people were at any serious risk of becoming cult members.
Platinum discs did not save Scientology from becoming a squirrel cult, but you and others that left the cult and then spoke out DID save Scientology.
I am grateful to all of you that participate in this blog and wish you Merry Xmas and a prosperous and enlightening New Year
Happy Xmas Holidays to all!
Alanzo
Dear Mike and Christie,
Thank you, for what you both do to help wake people up to the truth.
I appreciate that very much and I cherish our friendship.
Best wishes to all as long as they are good.
Merry Christmas Mike, and all on the fringe (a truly wonderful place to be).
I know 2015 will exceed all our expectations.
Thank you all for being able to be you.
Have a wonderful holiday season
GTBO
So nice to see you and your family flourish. What a good looking family!!
Thanks for all you do Mike!!
Thank you Mike. And the very best this coming year for you and your family. Those two boys are sure lucky to have you and Christie as parents.
What a great looking family! Happy holidays to all!
Mike, Christie and family,
Thank you for all you are doing to promote freedom, transparency and an end to tyranny.
From the Holy Land and from Dror Center, we wish you and the readers of this blog a wonderful 2015.
May the coming year bring us all together, reunite shattered families and heal past wounds.
May it be a year where all can prosper and each individual can pursue personal freedom and spirituality as he determines.
Let it be a year in which we share, with care and love for our brethern, our experiences and ideas.
May we wish for our fellow Man, that which we wish for ourselves.
May the world, on 31 December 2015, be a better place for our children and for all Mankind.
May you all join us in these prayers. May our combined postulates make the dream come closer.
We love you all and are grateful for what you are doing to improve the lot of Man.
Dani and your friends at Dror Center, Haifa, Israel
Merry Christmas to the Rinder Family and to Tami and Dani and all of you holding the fort at the Dror Center.
Yes Dani – Very nice. Same to you, Tami and all at the Dror Center. We expect to see you and Tami in 2015.
Greetings from down under. Great year Mike, you covered a lot stuff and did a great job. Best to you and yours this holiday season and 2015 will be really something – see you there!
You’ve been a great gift to us all, Mike, all through the year. Much love to you and your family.
all the best for you and your family. and more and more distance to the real estate people for more sanity and real happiness. thank you !
MIke, Happy holidays and have the best year ever in 2015! Thank you for all you do for this blog. You are making a huge huge good difference. And loved your Xmas card. Your son looks just like you and the older one looks just like Christie. What a good looking family!
What Cindy says in spades. You’re a lighthouse and a bull horn all in one. Never relent.
Mike, thank you very much.
I hope that the coming 2015 will be the best year since we woke up.
May Your Days Be Merry and Bright
to all of you, from Far East.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h0otRDNjG4&index=7&list=PL11CB0D1F2C0E8DAD
Mike: You and your lovely CONNECTED family have RINDERED (pardon the punny spelling) great SERVICE to FREEDOM and TRUE HUMANITARIANISM. Things that multi-billion $ business pretending to be a church will never do. I wish you all the best. Take a well deserved break, compare your situation to what it was a few short years ago, watch the drama unfurl, and have a lovely new year.
Happy holidays to you all.
Love
Merry Christmas to you and yours. Thanks for your important contributions in 2014 to pulling back the curtain on the cult.