It is the cult leaders who are likely to be psychopathic, and the cult methods that are likely to be outside the creed of normal decent people. Cults regularly use deceptive recruitment practices. And to argue about its activities. Cults, do not permit such freedom and demand unquestioning obedience. In most Churches, the minister or rabbi is working for the congregation.
Cults are the reverse.
Finally, a genuine religion is one that poses no hazard to its members at least not for the benefit of the leaders. Some of the larger more successful cults, are in fact international growth industries. They appeal to the mainstream all the time, to enlarge their membership and thus wealth and power. Having built a successful and extremely profitable enterprise, he naturally employed many assistants, managers, lawyers, public relations experts and others whose stake in Scientology's success is very high. THEY have carried on the enterprise of Scientology along the same lines.