Mike Rinder “Bullshit” About Church Tax Exemption Countered in His Own Words, Reveals Mark Rathbun

Mark Rathbun reveals that the “bullshit” Mike Rinder said on his Aftermath show about the Church of Scientology’s tax exemption is countered by Rinder’s own statements made years after he left Scientology.

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They’ve gone onto a whole new level of this—of trying to press this IRS agenda, the IRS exemption agenda, and paint this picture. And Rinder has growing participation in it of saying that the exemption was fraudulently obtained in the first place, in 1993. Number one, and number two, that under no possible way could it be justifiable that Scientologists get deductions for the donations they make to Scientology churches.

And they even brought an attorney on, a PI [personal injury] attorney—a PI attorney from Miami—right, comes in and starts bloviating about exemption, in front of Rinder, who knows everything he’s saying is absolute and unadulterated bullshit.

And how do I know that Mike Rinder knows that it’s absolute and unadulterated bullshit? From Mike Rinder himself. Let’s go to the Mike Rinder published statement, four years after he left Scientology—this isn’t something he made while he was in the Church. This is a publication four years after he’s out, three years on the payroll of the anti-Scientology cult.

“In spite of what many conspiracy theorists out there claim, the structure and financial lines of the Churches WERE”—all caps—“in compliance with the IRS code. That alone is why the IRS granted exemption in the end, as they could not find anything that was NOT”—all caps—“in compliance with their regulations.”