Yeah I feel like I can ' t hate on it because it ' s Aretha Franklin but god damn that ' s gotta be the longest anthem I ' ve ever heard <| sep |> Yes , yes , and yes . <| sep |> This is why Kaepernick sat down for the National Anthem <| sep |> Haha D I ' ll do one , I promise D <| sep |> It ' s an expensive cult . On the surface they try very hard to look normal . Try our free personality test ! and all that . Once you ' re in the door they try to point out where you can improve in life and to set you up for another meeting or to show up for some other kind of training . Sometimes the training is ripped directly from a number of successful selfhelp guides , to make it seem genuinely helpful . The cost of these training seminars and meetings starts to creep up . Eventually they ' re charging thousands of dollars per seminar . You might run out of money . oh ! But they ' ve got a friend at the bank who can help you take out a loan . So they walk you down to the bank to take out a loan to pay for more training seminars . And as you get deeper and deeper into the training , people start to get weird and serious and competitive . They ' re constantly comparing each other to their current level in the series of training programs . If you ' re not constantly giving money to the church and trying to win the OT ratrace , you ' re a failure . When you get high enough in the church , after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars , if not millions , you finally get to the part of the training where they tell you about Xenu and the alien race and all the really dumb sci fi shit . Once you realize that it ' s central to the whole thing you ' re already in the hole too far to climb back out again . Finally you ' ve had enough and no matter how much money you ' ve sunk into it , it ' s not worth it . You finally decide that the whole thing is toxic to your life and they ' re bleeding you dry . Unfortunately , they ' ve probably forced you to involve your family in scientology at this point or they would have kicked you out long ago . The rest of your family is then forced to excommunicate you on the threat of being kicked out of the church themselves . Then the church goes after you personally if you tell anybody about what happened to you inside the church . You suddenly find yourself getting fired from your job from a sudden avalanche of anonymous tips and complaints against you . You might come home one day to find your house ransacked . Depending on where you live , you might find yourself in the back of many police cruisers run by scientologist cops as they systematically harass you and then erase all evidence of it . You spend days and weeks being threatened vocally or through mysterious notes and letters at work , at home , at the gym , at your friend ' s house , etc . If you fight back and speak out publicly to the press in any way , you ' ll find yourself in court defending yourself against a team of lawyers hired by the church . And they have way more money to sue you than you do because they already own all of your money to begin with . The church ' s suppressing tactics are notorious and pretty well known now . They ' re also responsible for what is known as the deepest infiltration of the US government to date . Conspiracy is their game and sucking money out of rubes is their goal . And the thing about it is that it ' s not even the religion that ' s the problem . Sure , it ' s a silly religion based around aliens . Sure , it ' s invented by a guy who was an awful sci fi fiction writer . But the problem is that it ' s not about the religion . It ' s the church . They ' ve tried to sue , harass and shut down anyone who tries to educate others about scientology , even in a positive way . They don ' t let unlicensed people spread the gospel outside the church structure . They don ' t want the information available for free . They want to defend that copyright and they are bloodthirsty about it . They ' re in this for the money , not the religion . That is why they are dangerous and scary .