I have to agree with what Dawkins wrote in his book
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Religious experiences are different only in that the people who claim them are numerous. Sam Harris was not being overly cynical when he wrote, in The End of Faith: "We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common we call them 'religious'; otherwise, they are likely to be called 'mad', 'psychotic' or ' delusional'... Clearly there is sanity in numbers. And yet, it is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts, while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window. And so, while religious people are not generally mad, their core beliefs absolutely are.
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Really, Scientology is not that far fetch from the stories of the bible, we are just more condition to accept the silliness of one and not the other cause more people believe it. Im sure if the numbers were flipped and Scientology had a billion members and Christianity had as many members as Scientology has today, the name of this thread would be, "Is Christianity a religion or a cult"