:FKC, in addition to trying to wear you down, they're also just trying to waste your time fighting over small changes to the article.  Even if you succeed in keeping the explanatory stuff out of the lede, and think you've won, they've really just tied up your time so much that you couldn't pursue other, more substantive changes.  I'm not sure it's a good idea for any of us to spend so much time putting Band-Aids™ on the problem.  As such, I'd like to discuss a ground-up rewrite.  And before we do that, we should decide whether we should spin-off one or two other articles.  For example, Scientology has at least three:  one for the religion, one for the main organization, and one for controversies.  What do you think about having at least two articles, one strictly devoted to the philosophy, and another devoted to the Foundation, its work, and its controversies?