Fact: For large sums of money, the Church of Scientology has Dianetics propaganda inserted in The Varsity. Is this because the “church” has a genuine concern for helping U of T students? Is that why many other religions also pay for advertisements to recruit more “lost sheep?” These religions do not have the slightest concern for the people that they deceive. Organized religion has nothing to do with believing in God. It is just a business with a great profit margin—another manifestation of capitalism.
Organized religion claims to interpret God for people, but if people could actually interpret God on their own, religion would serve no purpose. It would be like a person looking at a tree, and requiring someone else to explain that obvious fact; that he is looking at a tree. The second person would only be pointing out what the first person already knows.
No degree of hope can ever lead to a true belief without real evidence to support that hope. Masses of people agreeing upon an opinion does not create evidence, either. It certainly never made the earth any flatter.
The only real objective of institutionalized religions is to expand their “consumer base.” The greater the percentage of the world’s population that a religion has on its knees, the greater the religion’s market share and overall profit. Selling religion is just like selling any other product. It does not matter what “X” is, so long as people are willing to buy it. There is certainly no any logic involved in religious recruitment. Making claims that never need to be proven is a job that religion has always done very well.
Religion is the ideal business; it sells the cheapest possible product (nothing) at the highest possible price (never-ending donations).
The concerns that religions may claim to have for their followers’ well-being are completely pretentious. How many religions speak out against wars or make sure that the world’s homeless are fed?
It is especially hilarious how people claim to adhere to the teachings of men who were non-materialistic, such as the Buddha, Muhammad, and Jesus, yet these so-called “followers” live lives completely in contradiction to a non-materialistic way of life.
When they do not practice what they preach, such hypocrites should realize what they really are: atheists in denial. It is no wonder that when no other religious founder would allow people to buy their way into heaven, newer “prophets” such as L. Ron Hubbard and his Church of Scientology came along to meet that demand with a much needed supply.
