In case you’re still lost as to what the heck is going on, a Scientology Run is when people film themselves charging into a Church of Scientology building to see how far they can get before being caught and booted out. It’s a notoriously secretive religion, so it turns the whole place into an action-movie set piece where the protagonist is trying to infiltrate a compound while fending off its legion of foot soldiers, clad in terrifying white button-ups with black vests.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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      2 months ago

      Well yes, especially given that the Catholic church is basically (for a given value of ‘basically’) a continuation of the Roman empire, a financial instrument clothed in religion. Same as Scientology.

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      2 months ago

      There’s different types of names for a group depending on certain variables. Not all cults are religions.

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        The difference between a cult and a religion is that in a cult the person at the top of the pyramid scheme knows it’s all a bullshit grift and everyone else is a true believer, it’s a religion when that person dies.