Matt: If it were just about beliefs, I think no one would bother them at all.

It's about charging vast amounts of money for their "teaching", it's about their illegal practices, about their threats (their lawyer send me a letter via FedEx from the USA for linking to xenu.net...), about the people that have disappeared, about the policy to exclude members and destroy their lives if they leave Scientology, about the dual standard where celebrities get a different version of the "teachings" than the rest.

You can only truly appreciate Scientology when you've had your car's tires knifed for trying to teach their methods without receiving payment.

Take a look at xenu.net for a list of many of the shady practices of the company called Church of Scientology. They aren't as harmless as you might think they are, and I'm happy that many places still don't recognize them as religion, since that would give them a massive amount of protection.