Rick Moen via luv-talk wrote:
(Scientogists are equally crazy if not more so, but only passively let people assume they're Christians because of symbolism such as the cross-like symbol they use, but they actually have no Christian roots at all.)
Their theology might be from Analog / Amazing Stories, but their playbook seems to match that of e.g. the Roman Catholic church, at least as described by Zola over here (fictionalized version of the Dreyfus Affair): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55849 e.g. instructing people not to hang out with apostates and unbelievers, cultivating rich patrons, using their wealth to invest heavily in real estate, conducting organized Zersetzung attacks on their political opponents, using children as slave labour. Plus this gem: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/55849/55849-h/55849-h.htm#FNanchor_1_31