Fiction is as fiction does... only Scientology charges easy quarter mil to become "enlightened". Big Business... not religion. 
Perhaps you should ask why all sci-fi and fantasy novels (or at least the good ones) borrow so much from religions.https://twitter.com/oftheoceanborn/status/846093470196514816 …
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Haven't seen Scitogy segment yet, but in the scifi/comic book community it is understood that L Ron Hubbard created it on a bet.
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this is an epic response.
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because they are fiction and fantasy. The question doesn't change if you flip it around...
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@oftheoceanborn and then you have#Scientology which is fully immersed in both - per sci-fi writer/evangelist L. Ron HubbardThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@oftheoceanborn Because everyone writes myths.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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because they both try to find meaning in things we don't understand.
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I'm more fascinated by the followers than the actual leaders or religions. I wish you could focus more on how they got there.
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It is because good sci fi / fantasy is based in the capacity to *believe in* the created world. Its verisimilitude. Its myths.
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Excellent thought, especially on Joseph Campbell's birthday!
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Because religion is fiction.
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because both are stories imagined by the same species
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Oh, definitely. As a designer, I often read scriptures for visual inspiration. Native American creation myths are particularly stimulating.
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Because religions are based on fantasy! At least, people who read sci-fi novels know they aren't meant to be taken literally.
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it's all fantasy
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