Can anyone familiar with orthodox Mormon and Scientologist beliefs tell me (or direct me to) the

[Attorney in Texas]

official position that each group holds toward the other group (i.e., what does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints think of Scientology and what does Scientology think of Mormonism)?

[Kali]

1. I have no idea on offical positions

but most religions seem to give off a vibe that other religions are full of shit, even while pretending to be tolerant of them. I mean think about it - if you have the true word, the other guys have to be fakers.

[Attorney in Texas]

2. I agree, but it also seems like many religions express greater or lesser ecumenism or skepticism

toward other religions.

I am a Catholic atheist (which is a long story that I won't bore you with) and so I have familiarity with the Catholic church. Catholics (both individually in my experience and as a matter of official church doctrine) have a more ecumenical attitude toward the Episcopalian and Lutheran churches and a more skeptical view toward Mormonism and Scientology. I generally understand this is because of the liturgical similarities among the Catholic and Episcopalian and Lutheran churches.

I don't have similar familiarity with how other faiths view each other (or how other atheists view the various faiths) and I am curious about this issue.

[msongs]

3. as long as they are both raking in $$ billions in profits they are happy nt

[David__77]

4. Scientology has no official position on LDS. That said....

I noticed that Scientology's official magazine "Freedom" had an interview with LDS science fiction author Orson Scott Card. I have the sense that at lease some Scientologists think that LDS might be allies in a fight for religious freedom and pluralism.

[Attorney in Texas]

5. interesting article posted elsewhere:

Where Mormonism Meets Scientology

[David__77]

6. I find the two groups highly dissimilar.

LDS is based on belief, and I do not think that Scientology is based on belief. I think that both groups stand against a sort of establishment consensus that anything other than a few "mainstream" spiritual/religous groups are to be considered as "cults." In that sense, that may be tactically allied.

[Attorney in Texas]

7. I find the two groups dissimilar, too, but I presume that both are based on belief and the "cult"

label does not seem helpful in any any discussion (I tend to think of "cult" as a term of disrespect for another person's religious beliefs).

I wonder if Scientology will be around in a century and, if so, whether it will be more accepted as a mainstream religion.