LMAO! Dave, to be a religion does NOT mean you have to worship anything.

But at least Mormonism is theologically a religion; they worship a primary deity. If Scientology is truly a religion, who do they worship? Themselves, as saviors of the unenlightened? At least until the Seventh Dynamic, which is the “spiritual level”? I don’t know how it can be a religion if the spiritual level is not accessible to new converts or requires members to pay to level up to it.

I was referring specifically to Scientology. I’ve never seen any real church with rate cards.

Happy to help when I can

Thank you Mike. I did not understand it in his book thus I wrote and asked you.
I take this opportunity to say how amazing you and Leah are. I am in South Africa at the moment and I see aftermath is on here as well as in the uk

“To me, nothing is more discouraging and
truly dangerous than the tone of this country now.”

Tell that to the generations of the Civil War, Revolutionary War, World War ll. Our dangers are laughable to them, in my opinion.

I think life is great. My joy in life is not conditioned by Washington or News Whores.

Life is fantastic. The best it’s ever been. I don’t let news robots, talking through a two dimensional screen, define what the world is, or is not — for me.

Check out Pew Aqua. Life’s getting better not worse.

News media makes a living out of our misery. Life is good! ❤️??

Brian, I get your points, all of them Perhaps my “glass half empty” , “not there yet” opinions were too cautious

“Just look at the Pew polling.” OK, I’ll do that.

I’m happy to be wrong. To me, nothing is more discouraging and
truly dangerous than the tone of this country now.

Why can’t we put our heads together and attempt to understand one another and work things out? A fundamental concept – why not apply it.

But, “The tide is turning”? Fine by me!

Mike, based on the SCotUS CoS tax exempt ruling and available evidence the IRS would find a Fed judge that would allow it if they wanted to press the issue. A bit of a pain but the available evidence of NOT spending the $ charitably is too obvious. Their own membership number lies create a lie about assets into the church.