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Liberal religious cult apologist<ref>Ross, Rick A. (April 1998 or bef.). [https://web.archive.org/web/19980429001130/http://rickross.com/apologist.html "Cult apologists?"] Rick Ross website/General Information/Cult Apologists. Retrieved from April 29, 1998 archive at Internet Archive.</ref> J. Gordon Melton dismisses the charge that Scientology is a cult, as he does in regard to certain other dangerous groups.<ref>Multiple references:
Liberal religious cult apologist<ref>Ross, Rick A. (April 1998 or bef.). [https://web.archive.org/web/19980429001130/http://rickross.com/apologist.html "Cult apologists?"] Rick Ross website/General Information/Cult Apologists. Retrieved from April 29, 1998 archive at Internet Archive.</ref> J. Gordon Melton dismisses the charge that Scientology is a cult, as he does in regard to certain other dangerous groups.<ref>Multiple references:
*[http://www.apologeticsindex.org/m06.html "J. Gordon Melton: Religious scholar"]. Apologetics Index website/J. Gordon Melton.
*[http://www.apologeticsindex.org/m06.html "J. Gordon Melton: Religious scholar"]. Apologetics Index website/J. Gordon Melton.
*Kent, Stephen A. and Krebs, Theresa. [http://www.apologeticsindex.org/c31.html "Academics and doctrinal 'secrets'"]. Apologetics Index website/When scholars know sin: Alternative religions and their academic supporters.</ref>
*Kent, Stephen A. and Krebs, Theresa (1998). [http://www.apologeticsindex.org/c31.html "Academics and doctrinal 'secrets'"]. ''Skeptic Magazine''. Republished at Apologetics Index website/When scholars know sin: Alternative religions and their academic supporters.</ref>
On October 27, 2009, "A [[Paris]] court convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud and fined it more than euro 600,000 ($900,000) on Tuesday, but stopped short of banning the group's activities.
On October 27, 2009, "A [[Paris]] court convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud and fined it more than euro 600,000 ($900,000) on Tuesday, but stopped short of banning the group's activities.