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Template:ScientologySeries Tilman Hausherr is a German citizen living in Berlin, Germany. He is a software developer and the author of the software Xenu's Link Sleuth, but he is best known for his criticism of Scientology. He is married to a female ex-Scientologist.

He has been described as a "critic of Scientology", an "anti cult-figure", and an "anti-cultist" . Hausherr maintains a website with material related to Scientology, including the Scientology celebrities FAQ. He has been working for many years with with Lutheran Sect Commissioner Thomas Gandow and wrote in Gandow's Lutheran magazine "Berliner Dialog" (no longer published).

An opposing article about Hausherr appears on the Scientology-sponsored website Religious Freedom Watch, which also features negative articles about other critics of the Church of Scientology, whom the site calls "anti-religious extremists." Various sources credit Hausherr for coining the term "Sporgery" in the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology, to which he is a regular contributor.

References

1. *Kent, Stephen A. (2003). "Scientology and the European Human Rights Debate: A Reply to Leisa Goodman, J. Gordon Melton, and the European Rehabilitation Project Force Study". Marburg Journal of Religion. 8 (1). {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
2. *Irving, Hexham (1999). ""Verfassungsfeindlich": Church, State, And New Religions In Germany". Nova Religio. 2 (2): 208–227. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
3. *Cowan, Douglas E. (2002). "Cult Apology: A Modest (Typological) Proposal" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Unknown parameter |booktitle= ignored (help)
4. US State Department Report 2003 Section III: "The Lutheran Church employs "sect commissioners" to investigate "sects, cults, and psycho-groups" and to publicize what they consider to be the dangers of these groups to the public. The Lutheran sect commissioners are especially active in their efforts to warn the public about supposed dangers posed by Scientology, as well as the Unification Church, Bhagwan-Osho, and Transcendental Meditation. The printed and Internet literature of the sect commissioners portrays these as "totalitarian," "pseudo-religious," and "fraudulent." The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Church of Christ, Christian Scientists, the New Apostolic Church, and the Johannish Church are characterized in less negative terms but nevertheless are singled out as "sects.""
5. Picket report 1997
6. Issue 1/2000 and others
7. Issue 2005
8. Tilman Hausherr at religiousfreedomwatch.org
9. Who is the "real" Clark on ARS?
10. The Sporgeries FAQ

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• The homepage of Tilman Hausherr

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