[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 1/22/2006 11:55:11 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
he believes a man was born of a virgin, and subsequently came back from the
dead.
I'd say that was weird.
Bob
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Actually, Scientology is not a Christian religion. It's a science-fiction
religion. (Although, I don't know what Tom believes per se.) L. Ron Hubbard, not
a terrible sci-fi writer, but not a very good one either (he wrote sci-fi
potboilers) deliberately set out to create a religion just to see if he could and
to also make money.
Since he deliberately set out to create one and made his intentions known
about why he was, it's always been a bit of a puzzler why anyone has bought it
since. Also since anyone can read his previous sci-fi books and see he was prone
to big flights of fancy and not very good a writer. Personally, I'd have to
rank him as one of the master con men of all time.
Marnie aka Doe :-)
Thank you, Marnie.
It's far more likely anyone would believe you than *my* meanderings, so
I chose to not tell what I know as the truth behind L. Ron's S.F. project...
He was a charlatan and a snake oil salesman when it came to Scientology.
I have a LOT of background notes and reports to support that contention,
and I have been following it for years and years, but to expect anyone
to believe me, well, that's stretching it a WHOLE lot! <g>
keith
