Which is religion wins the prize for the most mindblowingly, bat-shitterymost of all?

[Rev. Rye]

Scientology, full stop. It’s crazy enough that they hide key parts of their belief to people who haven’t paid $100,000.

Yes, their origin story that apparently contains the crux of their project is hidden under a paywall of over a quarter million fucking dollars. A full rundown of the OT levels, with running totals of cost (though OT8 isn’t tabulated, I suspect that this is somewhere in the area of half a million) can be found hyeah.

Plus, for an organization that keeps employing lawyers at any possible threat, they have an extremely antagonistic stance on the legal system. Say what you will about the Catholic Church, they won’t excommunicate members for calling the cops on other members.

There may be more batshit religions out there, but they’re almost certainly more obscure and probably not worth talking about. Or they just killed themselves.