What's more believable, Scientology or Christianity?

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Scientology fails on at least one of its basic articles of faith - that when Xenu brought the convicts to this world to be blown up by volcanoes, he moved several trillion human-sized creatures on starships the size and shape of a DC-8 (the design was supposed to be a racial memory). These trillions were then packed around volcanoes that are known and active (or at least dormant, not extinct) today. This would have required billions of flights, which, assuming zero-time FTL transit from origin to destination, would still require a nontrivial number of years just for loading and unloading, followed by stacking the captives several miles deep around each volcano. One would think such a mass would have left physical traces of all those thetans in the geological record...

Hubbard was a lousy writer, who stole his basic concepts from stories that Silverberg and Asimov had abandoned as irreparable, then screwed them up further, and sold it as a religion because that was the only way he could make anyone read his crap.

At least the Bible has some poetic passages, and some good moral and ethical lessons in there (really, no matter how atheistic you are, isn't the message that people should be nice to each other a good one?).

Christianity pretty easily, considering L. Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer who IIRC said that religion was a good way to make money and then created a religion thats backstory sounded like a bad science fiction novel.

It's possible that they're both true. But I think Scientology is literally true; while Christianity is metaphocally true.

Christianity is, by far, more popular. As everyone knows, the nature of reality has already been decided by majority rules. That is why atheists are wrong.

Scientology wants to make money. (So it is in my opinion more a company than a religion)
Christianity is not only written by one science fiktion writer.
But also in the Bible are some strange stories. Also in the past many christian leaders made moral mistakes.
In general I dislike it when a religion is connected with a big and authoritarian organization.
(In Christianity you had the choice between different churches more or less organized but there is only one scientology organization)
I would prefer Christianity, but I don't know the truth. (Maybe both is wrong, or scientology is right)

Scientology is basically a business that is tax exempt in a few countries, as a religious institution. They will sue you if you practice their "beliefs" outside of the "Church"

Neither are particularly believable to me. When it comes down to it though, the events described in the Bible could just be exaggerations of things that actually happened, as there is a level of historicity in it. With Scientology, well, we will never know the truth about Lord Xenu and his empire billions or trillions of years ago

If you don't know about the evidence for each, then they both sound equally implausible. But actually, there is much better evidence for Christianity than for Scientology. In fact, there is no evidence for the aliens-and-bombs bit of Scientology, except for people "remembering" it, and we all know how easy it is to play tricks on somebody's memory.

Christianity, however, has some decent evidence. It's not enough to overcome my personal prior of "miracles don't happen", but it is there. For example, most ancient historians agree that Jesus existed. The suicidal zeal of the earliest Christians is not what you might expect from a cult whose leader had just been publically proven wrong. And the Christian story is odd in many ways, and is not the sort of story that you would expect anyone in that particular Jewish context to make up.