Scientology

For this there is only going to be one part, because, quite frankly, these people are so completely out of their minds I can't stand to spend any more time then that thinking about it. Whenever doing research into this CULT, I couldn't help but feel these people are a threat both physically and mentally to anyone near them.

Here's the official web page of the Scientology "religion":
http://www.scientology.org/

Here's the website of their biggest detractor:
http://www.xenu.net/
(note: scientology believes the "bad guy" of their religion to be Xenu, an extraterrestrial overlord)

Here's a summary of their beliefs: Summary
Another detractor: Scientology's Lies

basically these people believe that Xenu, an evil extraterrestrial, was trying to solve a problem of overpopulation and sent lots of people to earth in a spaceship that looked like a plane, stacked them in volcanoes and blew them to smithereens with a nuclear bomb. Then he gathered the spirits of these people that were now floating around, made them watch movies that brain washed them into believing they were "one" and causing them to bind. These spirits called "body thetans" then attached to people (thetans) and cause all their problems. People must go through a process called auditing to remove these body thetans and become "clear". They then can progress to the levels of "operating thetan" at which point they supposedly get magical powers. When they don't it is explained that they didn't get all the thetans off, as some were sleeping. They must then get rid of THESE to reach the next level.
Oh yeah, to get to each level you must pay for, sometimes VERY expensive, courses and training (we're talking 5 digits and upward). If you don't pay you don't advance.

Real religions don't require you to pay to be "saved." They generally just ask for donations, which if you believe you would most likely be happy to give.

It is in fact only dangerous cults which tend to hide the "next level" of information from adherents (you only learn after you advance) and force them to pay. It also gets many people to enter into a form of indentured servitude to provide church services.

Oh, did I mention that their greatest enemies are.... Psychiatrists? yup. Psychiatrists are apparently out to destroy man kind and aid Xenu....mhmm

This all smacks of bad sci-fi writing. Oh yeah and it's founder, L. Ron Hubbard was, wouldn't you know it, a writer of sci-fi...who once said "If you really want to make money, start a religion."

I don't think I need to even make any more arguments about this. The religion speaks for itself.
Final Verdict: False Religion.