DarknessofHeavenandDreams
Xiam
It's a business that claims to be a religion, treats its consumers like a cult, and operates under the realm of pseudoscience.
Ultimately, it's just a moneymaking scam.
So they forgot the common sense idea that religion requires a faith, not just a book?
Um... sort of? It mostly operates under the guise of an alternative therapy, but it only works primarily on the placebo effect. But if you pay them lots and lots of money, you can "Level Up" and gain SUPER POWERS! And then when you reach OT 3, you learn the TRUTH OF REALITY!
Which basically equates to a crappy science fiction story.
But by that time you're so wrapped into it that you're willing to accept it, because it's helped you so much, right? And the outside world is so dark and scary, but you're safe there among
friends. Friends who told you to leave all your other friends and family behind to pretty much sell your soul to the Church of Scientology.
And at least in the case of Sea Org, this claim is literal.
Oh, they have faith alright. They're brainwashed into believing that this s**t is good for them.