Blog: Why You Can't be a Christian and a Scientologist - 2018-05-30

Why You Can't be a Christian and a Scientologist May 30, 2018, Jeffrey Augustine, Scientology Money Project

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We depart today from our usual excursions into Scientology financial and legal chicanery in order to explore a theological matter; specifically we examine the Church of Scientology's claim that people can be both Scientologists and Christians.

We explore this topic because of the recent efforts by Scientologist Joy Villa to gain access to American Evangelical GOP political circles. Villa did this in part by reassuring trusting Christians that Scientology is merely a set of self-help tools. This is hardly surprising as Scientologists have long attempted to minimize Scientology as nothing more than a set of self help tools when it served their purposes to do so.

However, this claim is demonstrably false. Each and every time a Scientology Org has been raided by the police — which is becoming more frequent these days -or Scientology has faced legal challenges, the Church of Scientology is very quick to protest that it is a religion and is entitled to full religious protections. The website scientologyreligion.org header clearly shows Scientology presenting itself as a religion: