difficult question. on one hand becoming an organized church will give us legal protection of religion against accusations of "selling a pipe dream" that our critics like to accuse us with threats of making laws restricting practices that we promote. On the other hand, becoming officially a religion can turn away some scientifically minded people (due to conflict thesis promoted by media and atheist organizations) and make national academies of sciences reluctant to listen to us and undermine research funding from already marginalized and underfunded research programs. So I have mixed thoughts about the idea
difficult question. on one hand becoming an organized church will give us legal protection of religion against accusations of "selling a pipe dream" that our critics like to accuse us with threats of making laws restricting practices that we promote. On the other hand, becoming officially a religion can turn away some scientifically minded people (due to conflict thesis promoted by media and atheist organizations) and make national academies of sciences reluctant to listen to us and undermine research funding from already marginalized and underfunded research programs. So I have mixed thoughts about the idea