The funny thing is, if you put yourself in the position of someone in ancient times, most religious stories probably sounded just as outlandish to them as Scientology sounds to us today.

I mean, there's a good reason the Romans ridiculed them. Imagine you were someone for in the middle of the iron age, and someone comes up to you and says "There's this guy, he can walk on water too (well that's better than Moses, you may say, who only parted the Red Sea once), oh, he can turn water into wine, too ( Oh shit, all the wine I want too?), yeah I know, he can even turn his body into *food so you'll never starve(what? This guy is not fucking around, actual bread?). You can totally replace all of that shit with the modern day equivalent in Scientology... "Oh you get to fly a spaceship at the end!" "Yeah there's totally an evil dude, like the devil, except with Star Wars mixed in", "Hey we don't have sin, fuck that, we have alien ghosts, you don't even need to have moral scruples to get into the spaceship, just money!". It's just a bunch of nonsense that the vast majority of the people at the time probably heard and said "are you fucking retarded? I met that dude, he's a goddamned carpenter", but a few that had nothing else said, "eh, sure, why the hell not?". Then eventually oral tradition had obscured it to the point that nobody could really say "you're fucking retarded, because everyone that knew him was dead. "The witness of christ"... translation: "Dude, I know a guy who knew a guy, who knew a guy, who *totally saw that shit happen".

Thank God ;) we have the internet and videos of L. Ron Hubbard so that anytime someone says "Dude, I know a guy" someone can say "There is a video that I can watch of this motherfucker. I read his original dumb ass book, and guess what, it's shit, go bother someone else".

Bring on the hate lol.