You either avoid hard questions about scientology
What 'hard question' about Scientology did you want me to address? Because I'll happily address it if you want to ask.
And for the record, if all you want to do is ask me about my personal financial situation then I don't consider it to be a 'hard' question about Scientology.
or you engage in blatant deceit.
You couldn't answer my question truthfully so you manipulated my question to lower the standard to a level where the CoS could meet it.
The full quote was:
"Anyone is welcome to my denomination's national conference and all voting and passage of rules, statements, and other sorts of decisions are completely transparent. Can you say the same thing about the church of scientology?"
You took out the section about transparent voting and decision making because there is nothing transparent about the CoS and certainly nothing transparent about the way it makes decisions and acts as an organization.
You're right in a way. My response to your quote was biased because I used your response to address another person's claim that it was 'so expensive to be a Scientologist', and so I cut part of your quote out to emphasize the fact that many facets of Scientology are in fact 100% free. In hindsight this was perhaps unfair of me to do so, so allow me to make amends by directly addressing the rest of your quote which I now leave unadulterated.
Apparently you place very high value regarding the 'transparency of rules, statements and other decisions' within your (non-specified) religion, which is all well and good. Though part of the problem with addressing your claim is that as far as Scientology is concerned, I wouldn't say that there's any 'rule' per se, so much as there might be guidelines or suggestions that people are welcome to follow. When I attend meetings and discuss with other members about the teachings of LRH, I'm not conscious or worried about any 'rule, decision or transparency within my religion's hierarchy'; I'm merely focused on the overall message that Scientology provides to me personally.
I'm given the opportunity to share my interpretation of the teachings of LRH, and even if another member provides an alternative interpretation, I still respect that belief even if it's not 100% consistent with my own.
And speaking of the message that Scientology provides, we try to emphasize that we should be accepting of people with different beliefs than our own, be it different interpretations of LRH or a different belief set entirely. Clearly your own religion does not preach such tolerance and acceptance of other people's beliefs. After all, all I had to do was honestly state that my experiences with Scientology have been positive before you viciously attack me personally with claims that nobody should believe anything I say, and all while wanting to emphasize just how 'open minded' you think you are.