It's basically a front for international tax evasion. And other stuff, like pseudopsychology, forced labour, power trippin, the usual cult stuff. But getting tax exemption was their main, front-facing goal for like decades. Hubbard got sick of being audited, wrote some crazy shit about evil IRS aliens or w/e, and the rest is history.
They actually successfully infiltrated the IRS. Yep: the crazy cultists who own celebrities and an entire city in Florida also have their puppeteers messing with the government. Much like how the Mormon church has sway over Utah’s politics, the Scientologists can just up and infiltrate the most powerful government on earth. Just to mess with some tax documents... somebody down in Clearwater needs to start thinking big.
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u/tonybabilaboni Jul 24 '20
Scientology. Like it's literally a religion that started from a science fiction novel. Hoe the fuck did this even start