re: So. There's a Scientology Drug rehab center in the LP

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that's a pretty bad assumption to make. That's assuming people are the same...josef stalin and eddie van halen are not the same. Moreover, and I can not say this enough,

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Well that's just random.

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SCIENTOLOGY IS NOT A RELIGION

They worship no deity

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Sounds to me as though they are each their own. And to become their best, they must release their parasitic alien friends.

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They offer no explanations for the origins

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Maybe they're smart enough to know better

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They are unconcerned with the afterlife

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Who said religion has to have an end game? Or that it had to be decided and discussed

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They don't even have a system of values

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Sounds to me as though they value happiness.

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They simply tell you that your soul is poisoned by dead aliens, thus you are a negative nancy, give us your money and through e meter sessions we'll slowly cleanse you of these thetans

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I already stated the leaders may be jackasses, but that doesn't change the fact that their message has gained steam. Beliefs are just that, beliefs. That would be how any and all religions started.

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of course each level is more $ (this part people do look down on, but again it's pretty far down the totem pole of fricked up shite people disapprove of)

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This bothers me personally, but in the grand scheme of things, what church doesn't guilt trip you into donating money? At least they're upfront and honest about it.