This was a much more telling article than the culties would ever want to admit. Read it. Carefully. Notice how they ever talk about buildings, and never people. Were this legitimate growth, we'd see much more information on the numbers, and of the people, filling these rooms. We'd see them announcing from the rooftops the number of "clears" they've made over the past five years. Instead, it's the same old story, of hollow husks of buildings constructed. of Miscavige in photo after photo looking exactly the same.

The deletion of critical comments was equally telling of how desperate The Atlantic was in making sure the church got their squeaky image. From the story being told, giving the sales department editorial control over these comments is just wrong headed and asinine. Which leads to the scarier question -- exactly how high up the chain was this decision made? Forcing community content moderators to eschew their standards in order to make a few bucks makes me question any desire to read the Atlantic in the future, regardless of if they pulled the content or not.