OK, fair enough. Still, you have to admit that scientology (the movement as opposed to the ideology) is taking things quite a step further than other religions. They are pretty aggressive in the way they "defend themselves".
I read a documentary on Cruise, his "daughter" and their kid. That was seriously scary. Their whole live "is scientology".
Again, christianity might have been followed as aggressively 50 years ago, but these days the general public thinks people are nutty when they still do that today.
It's not the "religion" itself which makes people's behavior seen as nutty, but the extremism with wich the "religion" is followed.