Scientology

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Del Lardo

Whenever there has been a serious charge against a religion or church the first thing they do is deny everything and try and claim to be "whiter than white". Look at how the Catholic church handled years of child abuse accusations. Just because the person denying the claims is famous doesn't make the religion any worse IMO.

With the exception that in this case it's those who instigated the religion and 'wrote the rules' making the denials (see comment about heretics). I'm not going to deny that atrocities happened or still happen in other religions but can you pin that on the origins of the religion or on misguided acts by its followers?

OK, so I admit I'm a little biased, and probably fallen for some of the hype, but still.