I would not call Scientology a "cult", but it's not a belief, or personal practice "religion" either. It has a core philosophy that most resembles the eastern paths, but the way it's set up, is a progression of courses one takes, each meant to reveal one's greater spiritual realizations and abilities. So, it's very money oriented as the courses require materials and staff time. So it kinda falls into it's own catagory.
Myself, I am more Hindu than anything. But every religion has so many varieties of approach and practice. So many branches of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.
But this is just a reaction to a blind belief in an extreme dualism of a separate diety/creator/controller, and has nothing to do with spiritual philosophy. That's why I can't ascribe to atheism, or the common acceptance of Christianity, and Islam. They seem too much the same, based on the same premise.
...But this is just a reaction to a blind belief in an extreme dualism of a separate diety/creator/controller, and has nothing to do with spiritual philosophy....
OK tom502, just for you.
This one removes the god part and concentrates just on dualism.
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