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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
I'm not really arguing anything here. Just trying understand what makes one group a religion and another a cult. I mean Scientology charges people for sessions with "E" meters. The Catholic church serves up some wine and a little wafer and tells people it's the blood and body of their savior. Both sound pretty goofy to me. I'd say cult like even.
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The bolding done by me in your quote is the major distinction that you are either missing, or choosing to ignore. I think most people that are ant-Scientology could care less what version of the spaghetti monster they chose to worship.
Since my earlier examples were disregarded, I will try and demonstrate it based soley on your quote.
Any Catholic can receive communion, without a checkbook or credit card. The same
can not be said for Scientology.
Most religions are interested in saving
everyone from hell/evil/darkness, whereas Scientology is only interested in "saving" those who can afford it.