These scumbag religions game the system to pamper their own asses, while parents raising families have to make truly difficult decisions on what they can give to their children, after the taxman gets his piece.

It is disgusting and wrong.

Not playing favorites is a big deal. The more modern jurisprudence considers favoring secularism just as bad. If a group is only being denied a service because of a religious orientation, then an avowedly atheist organization could be favored over an avowedly religious organization. That would be akin to state sponsorship of atheism.

The rules on discrimination are another thing. Religion is a protected class under the discrimination statues. If a religious organization is going to work, the people running actually need to believe in the tenets of the religion. The groups needs to be able to enforce rules on who can join. For example, if a scientologist applied to teach at a Christian school, discrimination law says that can’t disqualify them. I should not expect to be able to teach at a Muslim school as a Christian, because the school is set up as Muslim and people send their kids to the school to have Muslim education.

Just as an aside, this article is why you are not going to see a conservative movement against scientology. Most religious conservatives believe that there are lots of people out there who would use any anti-scientology legislation against their church. For example, a lot of people hate evangelicals and view them as evil bigots who deserve to die. This leaves the evangelicals worried about any reduction in religious protections. If you want to build a broad-based movement against scientology, you will need to focus on areas that do not threaten the average churchgoer. (like their moneygrubbing fraud)

Great quote!

So the only thing Scientology “clears” are their schmuck’s bank accounts.

I guess, this is why miscavige restructured the company away from Hubbard’s quacky philosophy and stalinistic Gulag mentality. Hubbard is a looser, as David could see quite fast. But the 500 million dollars from the other branches of Scientology are a real reason to go on until it breaks. After that he will spend his last years on a island like this friend of Trump and Prince Andrew. Good end of a bad fairy tale.

I wish that the money is divided under all hypnotized ex members.

“I went to the wøøds because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the
essential facts of life, and see if I could nøt learn what it had to teach, and
nøt, when I came to die, discover that I had nøt lived.” __Henry David Thøreau

Thanks! Never seen this.