For my second mother, Syndi.
Some things are self-evident: Murder is wrong; kindness is good; 75 million years ago a ruler of a Galactic Confederacy rounded up billions of his own citizens and shipped them to Earth (then called Teegeeack), tied them to volcanoes and used hydrogen bombs to blow up their bodies; adultery is bad; lying is wrong...
L Ron Hubbard was a despicable human being and a charlatan. He was a failed writer of science fiction and was convicted of fraud. He took one of his alien spaceship stories and turned it into a tax-free ponzi scheme by claiming it was a religion.
Delusional people are the reason the Hubbards of the world are remembered at all. He should be no more than a footnote in a long list of failed writers who couldn't hack it.
People desperate to believe in something because they think they have to are how all religions are formed; not just the modern cults of Scientology and Mormonism, but all of them. L Ron simply did what countless other 'prophets' did before him: tell people a fairy tale.
Apparently, it's easier to get people to listen to everything you say and to pay you vast sums of money if you make up a story about flying horses or walking on water or Xenu the leader of the Galactic Confederacy. In fact, with what we know about the universe, the Xenu story is actually more plausible because we know horses don't fly and people can't walk on water; at least, not on earth.
L Ron tried to get people to read what he had to say and failed, so he simply changed the genre of one of his stories from Fiction to Non-fiction. Yes, that is how gullible people are, including anyone who follows any form of religion.
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