re: Has anybody been watching this Leah Remini show about Scientology on A&E?

Scientology is interesting as its managed to merge and find a niche in the cross section of three huge cultural tenants of America: Religion, Celebrity and Litigation. It endoreses itself as a religion, markets themselves as a celebrity and protects itself with litigation.

It's definitely strange and from a logical perspective, just looking at the genesis should lead you to realizing this Hubbard guy was a hack. But there's something blinding about it to some folks. I just don't understand it.

The weirdest me part to me isn't the cult behavior, that's what cults do. The annual meetings weird me out. It's like a big seance and that huge alter just shouts something bad about it.

They quote Hubbard once saying the goal is for man to get himself in a position to look inward and answer all the questions himself. That's pretty much the essence of humanism/satanism.