Critical Thinking on Cults & AntiCults
Tony Ortega is a former reporter for various independent weekly newspapers around the country, and was the Editor for the Village Voice for 6 years before it collapsed in the BackPage.com sex trafficking scandal. Ortega left the Village Voice before all the indictments came down and began writing about Scientology every day in 2011.
His first article on Scientology was written in 1995 and it expressed his atheistic, materialist view that all religious and spiritual pursuits are illegitimate, and Scientology is especially so.
It is notable, and should be kept in mind while reading him, that Tony Ortega has never written about any aspect of Scientology, or of a Scientologist, in a positive or even neutral way. AlanzosBlog believes his editorial position on Scientology is entirely negative to the detriment of the truth.
These are posts on AlanzosBlog which have to do with Tony Ortega.
This Ex-Scientologist is courageously putting herself out there and warning the public about the abuses she has personally witnessed in Scientology, and while she is in the middle of doing that, Tony Ortega tries to discredit her on his blog.
Angry Gay Pope, Karen de la Carriere’s long time video editor, admits Karen is a practicing Scientologist. Why hasn’t Chris Shelton or Tony Ortega ever reported this?
Tony Ortega’s stereotype of you is a ghost that disappears as soon as you focus on it. For some Exes who have accepted this stereotype of themselves, it has become a thought-stopping cliche.
Does Karen De La Carriere pay money to Tony Ortega and Chris Shelton to post what she wants?
Maybe there was a time, that if Tony Ortega had gotten out of this war he is engaged in with Scientology, he might have survived. But that time is gone.
Tony Ortega is one of the most valuable critics of Scientology ever. But is he so biased that, over time, you can start to live in a delusional world about Scientology? I think so.
An ideologue is so certain of the ideology he has adopted, and the rightness of how he sees the world, that he can sneer at people, knowing how superior he is. It is a lazy way to go through life, intellectually, but if you surround yourself with people who also never question their assumptions, either, it’s easier to live that way. One of the best examples is Tony Ortega.
A point in your evolution as an Ex is exactly like the point when you woke up from the untrue things in Scientology: It’s when you wake up from all the untrue things in Anti-Scientology.
Leah Remini knows Scientology doesn’t teach pedophilia. She knows Ortega used that quote out of context for AntiCult emotional manipulation. Leah knows it is lie.
Now, I know you’re excited. I don’t want you to fly into a frustrated rage at me or anything. Or come at me like Brett Ratner. But No. Your anti-Scientology climax won’t be happening.
I’ll hand this to Tony, whenever it is to his own advantage, he does make stabs at being intellectually honest. In this case, he published a response to his criticism of professor Hugh Urban and … Read more
Did they just pay for for travel and lodgings while at a conference? Or did they slip them wads of cash to write what they wanted?
I’ve reached out to Tony Ortega via email for a comment about what kind of hatred of Christians was going through his mind, or if there was anything they did or said in the real world that set him off.
Both Scientologists and Anti-Scientologists, like Tony Ortega, are so biased they are equally incapable of telling the truth about Scientology.
I left the Church of Scientology after 16 years, becoming an outspoken critic of them in 1999. I’ve been thinking and writing about Scientology and cults for 36 years, in and out of both. Of … Read more
Exes allow this kind of oppression to go on. No one ever questions it. There is more to the idea of who you were as a Scientologist than “I was conned”.
Mike Rinder Anti-Scientology vs. Mike Rinder Scientology: a great real life example of what happens when your friends and your group are more important than the truth.
If Leah Remini really wanted a federal investigation, she’d present evidence of illegal activity – something, anything, the feds can actually use.
Tony Ortega loves it when a Scientologist commits suicide. He jumps all over every Scientology suicide he hears about. He even blames Scientology mothers for their daughter’s suicide.
Aaron Smith Levin visited Tony Ortega’s blog this morning in an effort to enlighten us on what’s going on behind the scenes of Season Three of “Scientology and the Aftermath”. It looks like Ortega’s blog … Read more
