Reply #12: The problem with Scientology is not its religious beliefs, but its practices.

[originalpckelly]

Even though Christians have confessionals, people are not hooked up to lie detectors to see if they're telling the truth. Scientology does that with the E-Meter. It is a primitive lie detector, and it is used to mentally rape the folks who join up with Scientology, mental rape is a very accurate description of what goes on too. These people are stripped of all privacy and they are asked about their deepest darkest secrets, then they are forced to relive any horrendous events in their lives repeatedly, until they feel an odd high. That sounds like a good thing, but it is a psychologically damaging technique, that is, once again, akin to raping the Scientologists' mind.

The people at the bottom of the orgs are all very nice people who got caught up in some horrible shit, but the people at the top are motherfuckers just doing it for money.

These folks are truly dangerous, to this date, the largest infiltration of the US Government ever in its history was the time the Scientologists penetrated it with the Guardian's Office, an intelligence organization that uses the same and worse techniques of the CIA. The Guardian's Office has been renamed to the Office of Special Affairs, but they are still up to their old tricks. No one in America has the guts to take them on at the prosecutor level, because they just destroy people left and right.