The basic mission of Scientology is to give Man wisdom and freedom.
This is a civilizing mission, but it is also one of individual freedom.
Men are prisoners of themselves and only truth can set them free.
If all men were sane then society would be sane.
If you, the individual, knew the truth and were processed toward the truth, you would be free. Only lies degrade you. This is the lesson of Scientology.
It is impossible to combat this mission and so we seldom confront the opposition or take it seriously. The opposition deals with days where we deal with eternity. A thousand years from now Scientology will be a bright name when anything now governed will have vanished from the role of nations.
No organization which can achieve individual immortality ever worries much about momentary hostility. And individual immortality is not only in our grasp but is now being achieved.
But a civilizing mission perforce finds itself in a barbarism and like barbarians the wild and uninformed fight back. You can't civilize some one without getting scratched now and then.
Scientology will someday be acknowledged as one of the great efforts to civilize Earth, along with Buddhism and other such movements. Indeed it will have a higher reputation than that. But in its beginnings - now - it knows hostility and baffles the slavemasters.