We will look at the following: Science and scientology are actually religions! 

It is not accidental that the words scientist and scientologist have several letters in common. Even though this may come to some as an inept comparision there are some similarities that warrant a brief moment of contemplation.

Some scientologists consider anybody not part of their world as inferior and uninformed. But arrogance is found amongst both types. I remember meeting B.F. Skinner while attending a congress on Programmed Instruction in London as a young psychology student and saying to myself what an arrogant fellow. This was based on his behavior and way of talking and that his theory was the only possible explanation.

L. Ron Hubbard was a smart man and original thinker. He was publishing every discovery made by his co-workers as his own work. So do some scientists.

However this is not the point I wish to make. There is a much more important common denominator of scientists and scientologists. They both have strong belief systems. Each of these groups have characteristic holy cows and let me try and tell you the principal ones.

The scientologists believe that considerations or thought in general is senior to the material universe and that nobody will ever be able to master their thought or find the truth without auditing, which is what they call their method to find out.

Scientists on the other hand have an absolute trust and confidence in what they call the scientific method. They strongly believe that the only way to find out or gain real knowledge of the material universe is by the experimental method.

Both groups thus have limited themselves considerably in their methods of acquiring truth. Holy cows are religious, one could say therefore that scientology and science are both religions, quod erat demonstrandum.

De Nada, 2014 March 11th