In OTL Scientology has a tiny, insular membership and an intensely paranoid, us-against-the-world culture. Members are relentlessly milked for money, clergy are treated like galley slaves, and the church is classified as an abusive cult by most developed countries. But did it have to be this way? Could the church have evolved into something more low-key and somewhat more accepted by the mainstream? I wouldn't expect it to become altogether benign, since it was a money scam from the very beginning, but could it have become a more broad-based, soft-touch scam?