re: #119 JC1
I was raised Catholic. I was an altar boy for a few years (nothing bad happened, and I didn’t hear of anything bad happening to anyone else I knew). The whole religion is objectively weird. One of my favorite takes on Catholicism is South Park’s great queen spider episode. Brilliant.
Scientology can reasonably be regarded as L Ron Hubbard’s experiment to see just how credulous people can be, and profiting from the results. E.g., just look at this crazy shit, which Scientologists pay up to $100,000 to officially hear from their church.