So what? There a lots of state recognized religions, and it doesn't mean much. (The state of CA recognizes weddings performed by folks who bought their "ministership" from an advert in Rolling Stone.)
> Hell, Tom Cruise is a Scientologist.
Again - so what?
To add some real data: Over there it seems that this organization is tax-exempt, but not recognized as a church or religion. [1, found as reference on Wikipedia]:
Sensitivity to and fears of Scientology in the country remains an issue.
The Church of Scientology reported problems obtaining credit cards,
and individual Scientologists experienced discrimination in hiring.
However, Scientology leaders also noted that the Vienna Provincial
Tax Authority granted them tax-exempt, non-profit status.
Well.. Now this is a nice US centric view here that probably _is_ based on this stuff being a religion in the US after all. Scientology members being discriminated, a paragraph between a reports about Muslims and Jews. Hilarious.1: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Austria http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27825.htm
Again, so what? The French like Jerry Lewis. The Germans like David Hasselhoff.
There are lots of facts, but few are actually "points".
Oh for pete's sake. Go read up on Lisa McPherson and Operation Snow White. There are plenty of legitimate and documented reasons to hate Scientology, not one of which is because they hoard money.