The following was taken from the comments section of an article on Huffington Post discussing the upcoming film on Scientology....Totally agree with this commentator.

* there are no religions

...only “faith-based” institutions with self-anointed lying god-proxies…funding, seeking, demanding, exercising secular powers

…in the Islamic Republic of Iran (shia sect of islam)…in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (wahhabi sect of sunni islam)

…in all USA red-state fundie xian tyrannies…for example, State of Texas, State of Oklahoma, State of Georgia…making up a neo-confederacy, Reaganistan

…all faith-based institutions are corporate bodies…closely held profit-making corporations…with tight hierarchical management control...thousands of employees

…generating illegal untaxed profits from Eternal Life-Wish ponzi schemes…holding profitable investments…vast lands and real property…international banking relations…outstanding examples…closely-held RC church USA, closely-held LDS USA, closely-held Scientology USA

…dead traditional or new godheads…pick a god, any god...deserve no special treatment…in a secular State and an Open Society…a label marked “religion”…provides holy CYA

...sheltering illicit profits from taxation…providing employment…for self-anointed god-proxies carrying out…fraudulent fund raising…cult functions with fetishized “holy” objects and fictional texts…managing educational and charitable subsidiaries…subject to unconstitutional “religious” exemptions from civil laws

…no wonder “religion”…is a much sought-after tax code label…as demonstrated by not yet 200 year old homegrown american xian heresy mormonism…insane american sci-fi nonsense scientology…and zoroastrianism, judaism, islam, bahai, sikhism, buddhism, hinduism…and every variety of 2,000 year old jewish heresy, xianity