The following information is from the book "What Is Scientology" from the Church of Scientology International, copyright 1998 - Religious background (page 463) 27.3% protestant, 26% catholic, 23.8% none, 6.3% other, 5.3% jewish, 1% eastern, 10.3% no answer to survey. Age (page 464) - nearly 70% of its members are over the age of 30. Education (page 466) - more than three-quarters of those suveyed reported they maintained a "B" average or above in high school. 18.2% graduated college, 36.4% had some college, over 80% graduated high school. Drug use (page 469) - 61.5% took street drugs prior to being in Scientology, 0% currently take street drugs. 81.6% took no medical drugs in the past year.
The Church of Scientology organization is hierarchical -- there are no recognized autonomous congregations, by design. However, considering that the Church considers anyone who has taken a Scientology or Dianetics self-improvement class to be a Scientologist, only a minority of the official membership is actually actively involved in a Scientology group or organization. And quite a few more consider themselves Scientologists but do not check in regularly. So you could say their organization is hierarchical but their membership is mostly autonomous.
Scientology is Fake.
You have to take a class for Scientology.
There are over 11'000 Scientology churches, missions and groups worldwide. To find the closest one to you, you can use the "Scientology church locator" on the Scientology website. That is a map that shows you the location of all Scientology churches and missions.
The Scandal of Scientology
Scientology was invented by the author Ron Hubbard.
Scientology cross was created in 1955.
The Scandal of Scientology was created in 1971.
Scientology is international. The Scientology religion has over 11,000 churches, missions and groups all over the world.
The Scandal of Scientology has 220 pages.
The duration of The Secrets of Scientology is 3600.0 seconds.
Scientology was invented as part of a tax scam which the founder admitted to doing and scientology was also found guilty of fraud of in french court, and queers worship the scientology religion because it is fake, queers.