Originally Posted by twistedmosaic

They don't sell emeters...they sell sessions with them, for a couple thousand dollars a pop on up. It really is like world of warcraft, in that you keep having to do 'training' to advance up levels, except every level has an arbitrarily larger dollar figure on it. And that's the only way to succeed in ridding their bodies of thetans.

I'm not sure what you are arguing here, cuz it sounds like "hey, theyre not so bad, they're just like the Methodist church down the road!"

Let me say again: Scientology operates NOTHING like what people think of when they think of religion. If you picture a pay by the minute 'consult a psychic' pyramid scheme, you'll be closer to the truth. The internet is completely full of accurate and verified information about their horrible practicies (which I haven't even gotten into as they'd sound off topic), if you are really curious about it, go do some rudimentary research and I think you will change your mind.

I also ask again, since you did not respond to it:

If I started an organization founded on the principle that I was the supreme Banker God of the universe, and that the only way to secure your wealth in the afterlife was to give it to me in this one, and I would deposit it for you in your Celestial Account, would you be defending my organization as a religion?