It even has drug induced brainwashing and coercive sex slavery, and it sees its inner circles (and the sufficiently devout) as gods in the making. This is full Thetan tear lunacy, but because totemic magic words like "SCIENCE" and "LOGIC" are slapped all over the outer walls, it hasn't gotten the same scrutiny.
So much of our culture is re-inventing shit that my classmates and I discussed half-seriously while stoned out of our minds at 3am in a Denny's in Scranton.