The precursor of Scientology was called "Dianetics".
It was intentionally designed as a new psychotherapy
Not expected to lead to a new religion
According to the Scientology founder Ron Hubbard, an alien named xenu was the dictator of the galactic confederacy and brought billions of people to Teegeeack and placed them around volcanoes and killed them with hydrogen bombs.
Statistics
Scientology is practiced in more than 30 languages in 129 countries on every continent
There is 70 building built sense 2004
Over 11,000 Scientology churches across 167 nations
Over 8 million DVDs sold in the last 6 years
The church of Scientology completed over 400,000 square feet of renovations of new premices this year alone.
Men and Women......Equality
Does not use gender neutral language
Abortion attempts could cause trauma to the mother in both spiritual and physical ways
The necessity for women to resume the traditional gender role, and raise families ideals