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Members are frequently pressed into service for clerical or promotional tasks or to recruit new members. [4]: 180 Members who recruit people for Scientology services are called "field staff members" (FSM) and are paid a commission of 10%–15% of the amount their recruit pays for a service. [5] [6] [4]: 181
In 2007 an official claimed 3.5 million members in the United States [3] but, according to a 2001 survey published by the City University of New York, 55,000 people in the United States would, if asked to identify their religion, have stated Scientology. [4] Tom Cruise is the most well known Scientologist in the United States as well as other ...
In 2011, SonntagsZeitung reported that support for Scientology in Switzerland had experienced a steady decline from 3,000 registered members in 1990 to 1,000 members and the organization was said to be facing extinction in the country. A Church of Scientology spokesperson rejected the figures claiming that the organization had 5,000 "passive ...
Hubbard claimed that Scientology was "all-denominational", [49] and members of the Scientology organization are not prohibited from active involvement in religions. [50] Scholar of religion Donald Westbrook encountered members who also practiced Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, and the Nation of Islam; one was a Baptist minister. [49]
Below the Scientology management levels are Scientology service organizations ("Churches"), which deliver Scientology services to its members, and so-called secular organizations which seek to introduce L. Ron Hubbard's "Scientology Technology" into various sectors of society such as Citizens Commission on Human Rights, an organization that ...
The Hole started as a power grab by David Miscavige, according to former Scientology members. Former Scientologists say David Miscavige sent dozens of senior executives to the organization's Gold ...
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