No one should be shocked that Lord ElRon is displeased. But also, Mary Baker Eddy is displeased (1879).

Scientology........

It's often not clear where to draw the line, and I am sure that many could say that Scientology is no more bizarre or fantastic than other religions, but for me personally - not a religion.

There are many religions newer than the cited Bahai. Religious belief seems to be a part of human evolution. I don't want to get into a chair throwing argument about psychological evolution, but there is some research indicating that these religious feelings are part of our humanity.

Probably one of the best way to understand the process of how a religion can be born is to look at the history of the Cargo Cults which were born out of Western explorers and WWII military landing on South Pacific islands.

What is most interesting is that the Christian missionaries that landed on these islands utterly failed in their attempts to convert the natives. Instead, the locals made their own religion out of whole cloth based on the visitors' apparent higher technology. The John Frum cult exists to this day.

Religion is a social construct. Science is too. But whereas religion tells stories, none of which are backed by data, science looks at the universe and asks the question, What can we know? That is a question that religion rarely, if ever, asks. Another difference is the second question, What if I am wrong? It is a question
asked every day in science and one which is never even considered with religion.

That's one of the best questions you can ask yourself, about everything.

I started asking it in earnest about ten years ago, as part of my skeptical responsibility to myself. It was surprising how much I discovered that I was wrong about. A short decade later I'm no longer a committed scientistic positivist who assumes that human ingenuity will fix all the problems of the world. I'm now a non-dualist panentheist who believes that modern civilization and much of the life on the planet (perhaps even human beings) are destined for the trash-heap of history, sooner rather than later, all due to the human approach to problem-solving.

Be careful what you wish for...

...and insistent poetic metaphor.