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Originally Posted by Flatbutt1
My understanding is that scientology isn't a religion in that they don't profess any belief in Christ or God or any such like. It seems more like a nutty social/spiritualist club. But they call it a church in order to legitimatize it?
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They call it a church for the tax-free status. There was a long battle with the IRS in the 80's over this. Scientology members harassed the agents working the case (phone calls in the middle of the night with heavy breathing, killing family pets) until they gave in.