Yes, with more idiots in the congregation.

Yes, both are cults.

Credit where credit is due, at least scientologists are the better educated of the bunch. Fuck them both, though.

see also: the 1964 southern strategy

scientology is also a scam. they are the same. manipulation of people for money and power.

the guy who created scientology was a sci fi writer who actually declared he was going to create a religion for monetary reasons, and then did so.

Immigrants being roughly equivalent to thetans in their theology, yeah that checks out

I mean it’s also pretty damn religious too