Mark Rathbun Reveals Mike Rinder’s True Conviction: L. Ron Hubbard Dedicated to Helping Others

Mark Rathbun reveals that five years after Mike Rinder left the Church, he made statements affirming that L. Ron Hubbard dedicated his life to helping others—a truth Rinder abandoned when paid to do so.

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I don’t know how many times in Season 2 [of Aftermath] that [Leah] Remini and [Mike] Rinder say words to the effect that “there’s no help to be had in Scientology,” okay. “To help is not in the vocabulary of L. Ron Hubbard, and it’s not in the curriculum of the Church of Scientology.” I mean, it’s just over and over throughout the season, episode by episode.

Here’s Rinder, five years after he left the Church of Scientology: “It cannot be argued that L. Ron Hubbard did a lot to help people and that the Organizations DID help people,” all caps.

That same year, 2012: “In short, I knew L. Ron Hubbard. L. Ron Hubbard dedicated his life to attempting to help people live their lives better. What put a smile on his face and a glimmer in his eye, was when he saw others being helped and doing better in life. He was absolutely NOT driven by money and power. L. Ron Hubbard was a larger than life man who gave the gift of freedom and a better life to many.”

That’s not a Church public relations statement, that’s a Mike Rinder statement—five years after he was expelled from the Church public relations department.