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    Commentary: What makes Scientology different

    by James Kirchick, Los Angeles Times Nov 17, 2017 3 minutes

    In addition to being megalomaniac leaders of cult-like movements, the late L. Ron Hubbard and Donald Trump have shared an aversion to paying taxes. The founder of Scientology waged a ruthless battle to win a religious tax exemption from the Internal Revenue Service, while the president has boasted about his tax avoidance and refuses to release his returns. How ironic, then, that, according to a recent news report, the Trump administration may revoke Scientology's exemption.

    Though Hubbard, ever the entrepreneur, founded Scientology as a for-profit entity in 1952,

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