What do Christianity and Scientology have in common...if anything?

Answer 1

The believe that man is a spiritual being.

Answer 2

In common?

Well they both ask you for money (one is 10% of your earnings and the other is flat rates for each course)

They are both very expensive if you want to reach the top (one is all your worldly goods and the other is still a flat rate but a really big one)

They both have really expensive centers for the top members (one is a country, city, with vaults of secrets and a small army, the other is a boat. does scientology still have a boat?)

However, here is a very interesting site that puts scientology down but instead of claiming that scientology doesnt work, it claims that all the good parts were stolen from the Catholics.
http://biblia.com/christianity2/3b-science.htm#CHURCH%20OF%20SCIENTOLOGY
You need to scroll down halfway to the part on Scientology (for some reason they put it on the same page as Christian Scientists).

Answer 3

Basically.... nothing.

I'm sure some Scientologists do believe in a god, but Scientology is far from theistic, and CERTAINLY not Christian. L. Ron Hubbard (Scientology's founder and "prophet") both outright denied the existence of "the Christian Heaven" and also spoke about visiting such a place (though described it as a mental "implant station", nothing like the Heaven Christianity conceives).
http://www.xenu.net/archive/HCOB/FU-HCOB-630511.html

Furthermore, Scientology asserts that our REAL selves are not our bodies or minds but an eternally existing soul (a Thetan, as Hubbard called it) that resides in body after body over time. This would render the idea of an eternal afterlife quite unnecessary and moot. After a Thetan "Drops the Body" (dies), they are, according to Hubbard, preprogrammed to return to the "implant station" (which could be the "Heaven" he described) where their memories are erased and they are assigned another body.

When Hubbard spoke on the topic of "god", he jokingly postulated a "Big Thetan" but rejected the Christian notion of Yahweh. When it comes to Jesus, Hubbard declared: "The man on the cross; there was no Christ!" and asserted that the ideas of God and Christ are mental implants (he called the implant "R6"). This may be in reference to the Christian messiah or any messiah figure, but regardless, that would rule out Jesus as mankind's savior.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/wakefield/christians.html#4

In addition, there's no concept of "sin" in Scientology. As stated by one ex-Scientologist: "[Scientologists] do believe, however, that the spiritual power of the spirit has decreased over zillion of centuries due to the "bad acts" they got involved into. This may be viewed as a form of sin, but the concept is quite different than the traditional concept of sin in Christianity."
http://bernie.cncfamily.com/sc/feedback_interviews.htm

Answer 4

There are many Scientologists who are also Christians, but Christianity is based on faith, and Scientology is an applied religious philosophy.

Scientology is closer to Buddhism or Hinduism - actually, there are many Buddhist monks studying Scientology - and monasteries that actually teach Scientology and Dianetics to their monks now.

Answer 5

Scientology beliefs: 75 million years ago, a tyrannical interstellar ruler named Xenu solved a galactic overpopulation problem by transporting beings to Earth and annihilating them with H-bombs. We are immortal thetans (souls) and our bodies and all matter and space and time are illusions we are trapped in. Scientology's main promise and goals are to teach one to be able drop these illusions and become a free living thetan again.

Christian beliefs: The world is 6000 years old and around 2000 years ago, a Jewish cosmic zombie, who is his own father, was nailed to a couple pieces of lumber and now wants you to symbolically eat his flesh and talk to him telepathically so that he can remove an evil presence that is present in all of humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat fruit from a magical tree.

As you can see, they have very different beliefs, but both are quite rational.

Answer 6

Tom Cruise?

Answer 7

Gullible cash cows.

Answer 8

Gullible followers.

Answer 9

They're both based on made-up stories.

Answer 10

Spelling, and verb conjugations - not much else.