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Reddit mentions of Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison Of Belief - The HBO Special
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Their SeaOrg vessels, presumably. Hubbard was in on that as well back in the day.
There's also the camp on American soil where they keep people for punishment. And the office at their headquarters where Miscavige personally kept a group of people to berate, beat and punish for a few years. Members that were previously part of the leadership of Scientology.
When police uncovered one of these little punishment camps in the middle of Hollywood once, the people they rescued eventually went back to Scientology because they weren't finished being starved, beaten and overworked to death.
None of this is a joke.
Well yes, Joseph Smith was hated as a con-man, and actually killed by an angry mob. Many religions started in very shady circumstances. It's an interesting field to read about. I recently finished Going Clear, about Scientology. The documentary is also fantastic, though the book of course has much more detail. Under the Banner of Heaven touches on the early history of Mormonism, and is a great book. I'm sure there are more authoritative books on Mormonism, but Krakauer is a great writer and that happens to be the book I read.
Good luck in getting religious believers to see the beginnings of their own religion in modern-day prophets. Generally they just don't look too closely at the beginnings of their religion, or if they do, they write off the weird or disreputable parts as people trying to slander the truth. Religion has ample coping mechanisms, and digging critically into the darker bits will get you shunned by your faith community.