Was George Orwell an Ex-Scientologist?

From George Orwell's 1984:

Quote:

"The next moment a hideous, grinding screech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. It was a noise that set one's teeth on edge and bristled the hair at the back of one's neck. The Hate had started.'

"As usual, the face of Emmanual Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed onto the screen. There were hisses here and there among the audience. The little sandy-haired woman gave a squeak of mingled fear and disgust. Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long ago (how long ago nobody quite remembered) had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities and had been condemned to death, and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared. The program of Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principle figure. He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party's purity. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching...."

Tell me that isn't an accurate portrayal of Marty's blog, as well as the numerous  blogs that David Miscavige has put up to attack Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder. Before Rathbun & Rinder left David's side, all three made David Mayo and many others the "Emmanuel Goldstein" in their mental manipulations of Scientologists for the endless and futile pursuits of ideological purity and uniformity of belief.

Marty Rathbun and David Miscavige are locked in yet another death match for the ideological purity of Scientology. The hatred and the screeches of evil are deafening from both sides.

The serious and productive exchange of ideas is thrown aside for the fanatical chance to confirm to themselves every day just how evil the other is. No other topic is more important than this one for their blogs. Miscavige's and Rathbun's blogs are Scientology's dueling "2 Minutes of Hate" assemblies. 

It makes me wonder if George Orwell was ever involved in Scientology, left, and became an Ex-Scientologist. Ya think? How else could he have so accurately described what it is like to be involved in Scientology? Perhaps all ideologies fall into the same "pursuit of purity" traps, and they just go around and around, flushed down the dwindling spiral of hatred and screeching fear of independent thought.

Fortunately, this all shows the world that Scientology, and all of its off-shoots, are not healthy things to be involved in. They do not create "sanity", "greater ability", or any of the other sales buttons they use to rope people in.

Thank God for the Internet, where their true nature is exposed every day.

And thank God for my hero, George Orwell.

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