> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 January 2006 14:48 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT: Capa Doc > > 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 > ========= > 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. >
I was referring to the Pope's weirdness, not Tom's or El Ron's. Now there's a good, long-lasting con trick for you. -- Cheers, Bob
