Scientology: Serious Business

I was recently asked to share thoughts on the cult that is the Church of Scientology. Despite the title, this isn’t about how Scientology is a business pretending to be a religion while really being a cult.

Links-a-plenty: The Wikipedia entry on Scientology; Operation Clambake, the definitive source of Scientology-related material; Bare-Faced Messiah, the most compelling biography I’ve ever read.

Maybe some day I’ll write about Sea Org, Scientology’s private navy, their billion-year contracts, the slave labor extracted from those who cannot pay for Scientology teaching, the way families are broken up and destroyed …. all the stuff I find most interesting about the cult. Today’s purpose is very brief education on Why Scientology Is Bad.