The reason I made that comment is that I would not in any way describe Scientology as &quot;successful&quot;. Most of the stories I know of people who associated themselves with it are people who were leaned on by the organization and essentially forced to remain active. I also don&#x27;t find myself thinking there are tons of people who are part of the organization, which was supposed to be the entire point of this strategy. I am actually kind of shocked that you say &quot;the organization appears to have been successful after implementing that approach&quot;. Like, the idea wasn&#x27;t just that they&#x27;d succeed in tricking people into thinking they had a ton of members and was successful, but that they would actually be successful, and that seems to not be the case.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.villagevoice.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;scientologists-how-many-of-them-are-there-anyway-6717701" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.villagevoice.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;scientologists-how-many-of-...</a><p>&quot;That&#x27;s one Scientologist for about every 12,000 Americans. In other words, the total number of active U.S. Scientologists is about the size of your run-of-the-mill local credit union.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Scientology" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Scientology</a><p>&quot;In 2008, the American Religious Identification Survey found that the number of American Scientologists had dropped to 25,000.&quot;