If it is intelligent to make note of failed attempts to suppress religion, then certainly the misinformation of the article presents examples of failed attempts to suppress religion. Others could be found. The German constitution guarantees a freedom of religion. How does this disparity exist, you ask? The German government is an active partner with its two official churches, donations to your church are collected by the government and dispersed to the two churches. There are strong, standing economic interests in Germany's religious discrimination. However, those interests fall under the German constitution.

I agree with the experts in Germany who think the ban would fail. The bans attempted in Australia in the late 60s only lasted a few years against Scientology and only drove the movement underground. I believe Germany, and other countries who seriously find offense with Scientology, ought to fund some university research into the "established cult" which is what sociologist Lorne Dawson categorizes Scientology in his 1998 Oxford Univ Press book titles "Comprehending Cults." Countries should just prosecuty Scientologists for law violations and press civil suits for damages when Scientology deserves being sued. I think scholars and writers should just discuss the theology and practices of Scientology openly. In plain terms, simply, Scientology claims to be about spiritual improvement. They claim openly to produce "Clears" which are people with their minds cleansed of spiritual stress. Scientologists have codes of silence about their confidential upper spiritual "levels", and these upper confidential levels (OT levels 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7) are the expensive time consuming levels where Scientologists follow L. Ron Hubbard's carefully researched spiritual enhancement techniques and telepathically communicate to clusters and individual souls which are embedded all over our bodies. We normally can't see or sense these surplus souls that infest us, it takes getting up the Scientology Bridge to Total Freedom to learn about these surplus souls that infest us, and to do Hubbard's telepathic procedures to rid ourselves of these souls. These souls are called body thetans in Scientology and the reason earth people have these surplus souls is because 75 million years ago here on earth, an evil galactic space leader named Xenu committed a galactic scale genocide, and murdered billions of people brought to earth in space ships, etc, etc. The simple truth of what Scientologists believe at their highest levels of spiritual practice absolutely is consistent with L. Ron Hubbard's years of imaginative pulp science fiction writing. Chuck Beatty, ex Scientology staffer 1975-2003.