Usually I try to stay out of religious discussion because I dont care what the un-enlightened believe, but your statement:
“Now one could consider the Judeo-Christian stuff just as silly but at least the writings and beliefs of the leaders are pretty much well-understood and researchable”
May not be completely correct.
Even in the well researched Judeo-Christian churches, there is much miss-information about what is actually in the bible. Many religious experts have studied and proclaimed, but there is little in the bible to support the notion of an eternal punishment in “Hell”. It exists only in the minds of the believers. Until after 1765 it never showed up in the new testiment, and did not arrive in the old testiment until the King James version. Churches have created dogma to facilitate their own earthly desires.
And this re-writing the “book” is far more reasonable than some churches fabricated canabalistic rituals where the flesh and blood of the savior is eaten and drank each week at mass which was never part of the “book”
If scientologists want to be the offspring of Zorg the interplanetary traveler and our ancient relative – so be it. Maybe they have a book that they are miss representing also.