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But Scientology, despite it harassing the IRS until it got tax exempt status, can’t be called a legitimate religion, it’s run too much like a business. Businesses charge people for services, they pay people to advertise for them, and they launch lawsuits for financially motivated reasons rather than religious ones. Scientology is all that and even worse, since it has the added element of abusing the basic human rights of its supporters.
It has on numerous occasions harassed reporters as well as ex-members, destroyed information that incriminated it through illegal means (including Operation Snow White, in which members of the church infiltrated the IRS), held people for years in deplorable conditions (look up “the hole” in Gold Base), and separated people from their families (ask literally any ex-scientologist), as well as charging people literally tens of thousands of dollars for religious knowledge (the rough equivalent of paying to read parts of the bible).
Its leader, David Miscavage, thinks of himself as the pope of his religion and yet physically and verbally abuses members of his staff. They routinely monitor websites and have designated posters to refute anti-scientology claims. They believe that psychiatry and many modern medications are evil, and that many mental disorders do not actually exist, actively barring vital medical services to people who needed them in many cases, which has led to the deaths of multiple innocent people. Don’t even get me started on the Sea Org, Suppressive Persons, or the Fair Game Policy.
I don’t have a problem with their actual beliefs, which are just as ridiculous as any other system (brainwashed alien souls, volcanoes, thetans, Xenu, ect.). Nor do I have a problem with its adherents at a basic level, who are more deserving of pity than anything else (the cult has developed very specific ways of breaking people down and creating a dependency). But Scientology as an organization should die.
TL/DR, Scientology is a Cult/Corporation, not a legitimate religion. It should be treated as such.
Their leader was a race car driver…oddly but whatever works.
Catholics do have a unique complication all their own, however. Accords and Bulls. The only other religion I’m aware of that allows such drastic changes in a single generation are the Mormons and the polygamy split. Like pre-reformists are actually moderately accepting of most deviant lifestyles, but they’ll flay your skin off if you commit adultery or unsanctioned usury, and being caught before you can repent.
Which is sorta the point of “bad advice Fluttershy”, yes.
Well, he at least wasn’t doing it entirely for profit.
And Jesus wasn’t?
How about the fact that said writer was literally pulling things out of his arse?
come from a Catholic family. Particular Catholics are good people, but I’m sure particular Scientologists are good people too. All of religion is programming. All religion cons money from people; have you seen the lavishness of Rome? And I fail to see how a writer is a worse prophet than some guy dicking around in the middle of nowhere telling people he’s God.
Then plainly you know nothing about Catholicism (and I say this as an Agnostic).
Same basic concept. You want to control people, just invent a bunch of superstitions, write a bunch of stories to support them, and use the above to convince anyone who’ll listen to act the way you want them to. It’s the tried-and-true tactic at the heart of every religion/cult in recorded history, whether they want to admit it or not.
Sounds like Catholics to me.
What about the reprogramming, the fact that they take everyone’s money or the fact that their prophet is a science fiction writer.
Yup.