The Beginning of the End?

For a little more than two years now, a building close to mine in Old Town has been a renovated "church" of Scientology.

I have never understood what the religious or business model was of a building in which millions of renovation dollars have been spent, and yet, only 8 people show up everyday in bartender uniforms.  They spend the breaks and lunch hour all (every last one of them) chain smoking in the alleyways of Old Town. 

It all seems so entirely.....empty.

And now, this article finally explains what I have long suspected.  Its all a hoax.

This quote sums up exactly what I have feared for these poor people, deceived by a false religion:

As elsewhere, after its grand opening, the Orange County building remains empty but for a few staffers, said Garcia. "There's nothing happening in those orgs," he says "They're dead: six people in 65,000 square feet." Former executive Nancy Many calls churches like Seattle's and Santa Ana's "Ideal Morgues."