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From: fseipel@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Frank E Seipel)
Subject: Re: Snide comments (was Re: Perfectionism)
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>I suspect you'd find disagreement with this doubt amongst the roughly two
>thirds of the world's population that are not "christian".  Don't take the
>ethnocentric view that the population of the United States is representative
>of the rest of the world.

 I don't think that was the point. Islam, Judaism, etc, are *ALL* striking
contrasts to Scientology.

 None of these religions require a person to spend thousands upon thousands
of dollars on 1) Books 2) "auditing" 3) e-meters. You may have to make a
once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to Mecca, but no one individual or small
group is getting extremely rich in the process.

 This brings to mind another question. Shortly after the Time magazine attack
of Scientology, I remember seeing, day after day, ads in USA Today, full
page ads, paid for by the Church. Obviously, they must command enormous
resources to be able to pay for all this. What are their revenues and net
worth?