Is it just me or does Scientology seem a bit like Dungeons and Dragons - a bit of a game for geeks?
These people "believe" aliens came to earth to inhabit human bodies and it is our - the humans - mission to (buy their very expensive scientology merchandise in order to) become evolve into masters of the universe or something. They use acronyms ("stsp" (or something), "LRH" etc), just like geeky school boys.
They, from what I could gather from Tom, appear to exist to protect and serve and to save us from car crashes, they know everything about psychology, yet their most famous member is only 5 feet tall and could barely lift that big medal they gave him. But it's ok, because "he knows" (what I am not sure, but whatever it is, it's a rough and tumble blast that means he can't go romping. Poor Katie).
It's clearly a silly game which is more fun if you pretend that you believe it is real because then you get to play all the time. And there are big medals.