Maybe being the one sticking out among your neighbors isn't always a good thing.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    It does get a lot of its morals from 1950s America, which in turn gets a lot of its morals from puritanical Christianity. The mythology of Scientology is a mix of pulp science fiction and an orientalist version of Buddhism though. Practically speaking, it's a vehicle for funneling money and slave labour to its upper echelons. Rhetorically, they bill themselves as a sort of self-help thing to begin with, and a lot of the initial ritual is "self-help".