{"id":2892,"date":"2016-12-08T13:41:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T21:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/scientologybeliefs\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2017-10-24T05:05:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T12:05:43","slug":"like-church-scientology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/scientologybeliefs\/2016\/12\/like-church-scientology\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it Like in a Church of Scientology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Scientology Churches are unique\u2013not like other churches. We are a 24\/7\/360 church. In other words, we are open 7 days a week year round.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scientology: Inside a Church of Scientology\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ALVUus22NVc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>The challenge of trying to describe what a Scientology Church is really like resulted in a video that\u00a0<em>shows\u00a0<\/em>rather than telling.<\/p>\n<p>I am posting it hear for anyone interested in finding out.<\/p>\n<p>Going to a Scientology Church and touring the Public Information Center is a great way to understand the tremendous breadth of the religion, its services and community and humanitarian programs.<\/p>\n<p>Short of that, many of these videos are are also online on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientology.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Scientology Website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the best way of understanding Scientology is by taking a service and using the technology to make a difference in your own life and the lives of others you care about, and that too is available online if you can\u2019t get to a Scientology Church of Mission.<\/p>\n<p>These courses are available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientology.org\/courses\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Scientology website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientology Churches are unique\u2013not like other churches. We are a 24\/7\/360 church. In other words, we are open 7 days a week year round. The challenge of trying to describe what a Scientology Church is really like resulted in a video that\u00a0shows\u00a0rather than telling. I am posting it hear for anyone interested in finding out. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,1034,3,1205,708],"class_list":["post-2892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-church","tag-courses","tag-scientology","tag-services","tag-tour"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is it Like in a Church of Scientology?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Scientology Churches are unique--not like other churches. 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