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The Difference between Scientology & Christianity

It has everything--A-list celebrity members whose success has been attributed to it, extraordinary institutional wealth, a raft of artifacts demonstrating its special qualities, and cultural identification with modernity, not antiquity. It is relevant. It is now. And, if the testimonials are any guide, it gets results.

I'm having great wins on the Scientology Basic Books and Lectures.

I've been a Scientologist for many years, and I've had lots of Scientology auditing (spiritual counseling) and training. But I feel in many ways I'm just now becoming a Scientologist through studying these Basic Books and Lectures, exactly the way L. Ron Hubbard intended. (Jenny, 2008)

With the possible exception of Notre Dame varsity, nobody has recently gone on record saying that he or she is "having great wins" on the Christian Bible. That would appear to diminish Christianity as a religion relevant to modern culture, and although the testimonial might also be explained in terms of illiteracy, such concerns must be set aside in any meaningful comparison of Christianity and Scientology as religious traditions. The purpose of this research is to examine Christianity and Scientology as modern cultural artifacts, exploring what each belief system asserts, where it reaches meaning, and how it applies to contemporary experience.

It seems appropriate to begin with the earlier and perhaps more familiar religious tradition: Christianity. What is known about its founding is contained in the four-gospel biography of Jesus and apostolic-era letters, mainly written by Paul, that address fundamental beliefs of an emerging religion. Its development is covered in non biblical historical sources. Christianity began as a religious movement organized around the figure of Jesus, as shown in Acts, which says that "the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch" (Acts 11:26). In the first part of Acts 11, Peter est...

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