What would happen if Scientology was the new Christianity?

Question

By "new Christianity" I mean the largest religious group in the world. As popular as Christianity.


Would atheists and Christians finally ban together?

I mean, it's one of the five things we do agree on; Scientology is weird.

What would you do? What would we do? What do you think the world would be like?

Answer 1

I would be afraid for my life, to be honest.

What would the world be like? Absolutely no pharmaceutical drugs ever, not even for the autistic or psychotic. For example, Jeremy Perkins was a very disturbed schizophrenic young man. His parents, Scientologists, refused to put him on the anti-psychotic drugs that would have stabilized him & prevented him from killing his own mother.
Video: http://www.scientomogy.com/jeremy_perkins.php
CBS article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/25/48hours/main2124568.shtml
Website: http://perkinstragedy.org

Answer 2

These types of things have no bearing on Christianity. Christianity is not a social club or a civic organization. Whether or not we are "the largest religious group in the world" is not important.

Christianity is a commitment. People will either accept it or reject it. There is no middle ground.

Christians have been put to death for their beliefs. If they had not sincerely believed in the reality and importance of their faith they surely would have switched to something less important...like atheism.

~Neeva

Answer 3

Nothing at all would change. We'd still have a wacky belief held by the majority of the population, and it would eventually infect our laws, schools, and media. Christians would still hate everything that isn't their way of thinking, and atheists would still be frustrated that dogma is destroying human potential and invading their own lives.

"The Passion of the Christ" would have been a bit different--and directed by either John Travolta or Tom Cruise. Other than that, I see no difference.

Answer 4

It'd be friggin' scary. You'd probably have to be hooked up to an 'e-meter' whenever you want to do anything. "Are you clear?" would replace "hello" and "hi" as the standard greeting. There would be posters of LRH all over the place the way that Lenin's picture was hung everywhere in the old U.S.S.R. Those upstarts who question and think would probably 'disappear' as this would be cheaper than a CoS lobotomy.

Answer 5

Well, folks would first have to find out what Scientology was .
And when they did they'd find it was not in "competition" with other religions. One of it's goals is to unite religions not replace them.

So what you are suggesting is not really even hypothetically possible, never mind actually.

Seems like you're just trying to stir up folks about nothing just for the sake of creating a stir.


Boring.......

Answer 6

Speak for yourself. I think the idea of a God that would send his own son to die on a cross for "the good of all humanity" is a weird concept in itself.
But yeah, I think I'd hide out in my basement until it was all over.

Answer 7

I don't think it would be any worse. In fact, it would probably be better.

I vote no for religion in politics. Outside of that, I couldn't care less.

Answer 8

I'd go and hide out in a bomb shelter until the crazy wave subsided.

Answer 9

That's a pretty lame question. Speculative. Presumptuous. A wild fantasy in my opinion.

Answer 10

I would be bankrupt.

What do you think the world would be like? A bunch of neurotic assclowns running the planet.