Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 (
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I almost hesitated to get involved in promoting this kind of story since cults can be very scary, but I think cowardice only encourages villains. In any case, I think that masquerading as a religion for monetary reasons is about the lowest you can get and that's exactly what scientology is (and
fortunately, the German government knows it).

Cruise, also one of the film's producers, is a member of the Church of Scientology which the German government does not recognise as a church. Berlin says it masquerades as a religion to make money, a charge Scientology leaders reject.

Of course they do.
Anyway, it would simplify things a lot if the American government automatically rejected all claims for religion status for groups that have secrecy as one of their core beliefs. No true religion has secrets. Only scams where they know there's no way you'll swallow the whole enchilada until you've been properly "conditioned" at the lower levels.
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