Scientology is a money-motivated cult masquerading as a legitimate religion, that some people have been bamboozled into actually following AS a religion.

Hayes is just another confused Scientologist-- confused, because it is, inherently, not possible either to follow or to untangle its beliefs and practices without eventually running right into the reality of the cult underlying it. The cult doesn't like that-- understandably-- and makes every effort to prevent exposure. There's even a sophisticated process, taught to adherents, on how to deflect attacks on Scientology. Many who have left have been put on lists of people other adherents are invited to harass in profoundly unpleasant ways.

How do I know any of this?

I have known Scientologists who left... Scientologists who left the corrupt organization but still follow and proselytize for the belief system... people the cult tried to snag... and secular humanists who have helped counsel and de-program them. There is ample documentation for all of the above, and if you Google you will find a lot of it.

BTW, my "intolerance" of Scientology is not based on my own religion's view of it-- my denomination, as far as I know, has no view on it-- but on my outrage over the damage done to the victims of it who I have known well.

~Susan
~Susan