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ELI5: Why is it that there are a lot of celebrity scientologists?
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I think there are a lot reasons why people to think that there are a lot of celebrity scienctologists. 

Scientology is extremely successful because it makes a lot of money, which it gains from the people within the church. Unlike many religions today scientology has a sort of large hierarchy in which people can pay money to climb. Most of the scientologist celebrities you think of (John Travolta, Tom Cruise, etc) have made so much money over their long and extremely successful careers that they can spend the money to be high ranking scientologists. 

Think of it this way. Imagine there was a club everyone could join. Everyone wants to be higher up in that club then everyone else, but naturally not everyone can be at the top. One day your sitting at home and you realize that if you joined this club, you would almost immediately be at the top of it. Above tens of thousands of others. A very tempting situation. Now add the fact that this club also promises you the meaning of life by being at the top. Even more tempting.

But that just explains why the rich join scientology. 

In truth, i don't think there are really that many celebrity scientologists in comparison to say.. jewish celebrities, or catholic celebrities, or even buddhist celebrities. Scientology is just a buzzword that stands out to us in the present day. Scientology seems strange and foreign to most people so when they see that their favorite actor is becoming a scientologist, they're more likely to buy a magazine. It's really just the perception that a lot of celebrities are scientologists, when in truth its that there are a lot of people **reporting** on celebrities being scientologists.