Why do some people find Scientology to be a valid and helpful religion?

Open MINDEDNESS

For the same reasons that most people find any religion valid and helpful. It fills a need to be socially involved and it answers their questions. Few people really search continually for truth. This is the key to finding answers. So many arrive at their "peter principle" and then stagnate. Question/Evaluate/Consider/Challenge/Be challenged/ this is the key to learning more. Keep Smiling..... none of know much Therefore don't get caught up in what you THINK is true or right... but keep an open mind.... FEW HAVE such a great gift....

Answer

Why do some people find Scientology to be a valid and helpful religion? Because there is a wonder in humanity, a need for asking why and learning more about ourselves. But in my opinion, L. Ron Hubbard has exploited that yearning into a very profitable and tax-exempt business, as opposed to his proper place as a self-help guru.

Judeo/Christianity is not like that, nor any other religion, because it promotes individuality as one has a personal relationship with his creator, as one reads with his own understanding the Tanach, the Bible's Old Testament, or that along with the Christian New Testament, for those believing the Messiah has already been here. ; )

Scientology

In 1950, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1911-1986) published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (The American Saint Hill Organization, Los Angeles. All page references here are to this edition.) The book is treated as if it were a holy scripture by Scientologists and they treat it as if it were the cornerstone of their church, their religion, and what they consider to be their science. Hubbard tells the reader that dianetics "...contains a therapeutic technique with which can be treated all inorganic mental ills and all organic psycho-somatic ills, with assurance of complete cure...." He claims that he has discovered the "single source of mental derangement

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Because thinking is a very hard task. So most people allows others to do the thinking for them.

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