scn’s misguided idea of an education is brainwashing them into agreement with the tenets of scientology, nothing that’s useful in the real world unless they’re going to be sociopathic sales-persons. I DID run into a boss who would have made a fine ED or other top-level “manager” in scn. Arbitrary, capricious, and often spiteful. We never learned any of the rules until AFTER we’d been told we violated them, IF then..

Skyler named scn as [the]”OPPOSITE of a religion”:
I understand your meaning, even though DM & Co. use a considerably different definition of the term to describe their enterprise’s actions. As others have observed, by their understanding of the term, the Mafia would fall within the definition they swear by.

Yeah, Mary, that 501C(3) IRS capitulation sure supercharged Davey’s ability to salt away gobs of money and use it for anything he wanted, since everything he does is “religious”, even the top-flight booze and the exclusive SCUBA trips. Even fixing up his buddy’s hanger was ecclesiastical by his definition, even if by no one else.

true, children should particularly be protected from the abuse and brainwashing the organization calling itself scientology puts all its “members” through. Kids should be allowed to safely enjoy the benefits of being children as they learn the basic rules of society and the world, not what scn calls an education(the ‘basic’ courses of scn). The Amish have it right: children shouldn’t be “enrolled” in the religion by their parents. They can only be baptized into the sect after they’ve attained the age of consent, by which time, they’ve got a good 9 or 10 years’ study of the basic required courses

Thanks to you both. I know there can be a time and a place and like most, I get a little passionate here and tend to over-explain. But I’m glad I don’t drive you nuts with my wordy posts! I’ve learnt so much from people here and I like commenters (like you both) who ask questions and have strong opinions. Just a neat community of people not afraid to debate and learn.

Aw thanks Sky – I read a lot so tend to explain in (verbose) stories. The 3r’s is a kinda wink to my being long and drawn out probably too often. Lol
PS – Saw your post about The Boys above and that made my day. Adult son just got me watching 1st season and they’re skillfully scathing, so it’ll be quite fun to see their take on co$.

I care less about non-child-abuse (I do care but a lot less). Adults are free to make their choices however misguided.

There’s no way children should be subject to this kind of mental and physical abuse. It’s a whole other level of magnitude

The Church of Scientology is a nasty, disgusting and despicable destructive cult

There, fixed it for ya