2006-06-14 04:58:28 · 16 answers · asked by samdragonsfire 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The story goes that one year at a SciFi convention during dinner. L Ron Hubbard was talking to his fellow dinners and said that if we really wanted to make money they should start a religon not write SciFi. Then he started Scientology shortly there after.
2006-06-14 05:05:24 · answer #1 · answered by don 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, and actually their church is incredibly hard to leave... to my knowledge they even bought out a company that was meant to help people leave it.
Another interesting thing is that the church of Scientology is possibly the most money based church in the world - in order to "advance", one must pay a certain amount of money.
This is all what I have heard from third parties and I have more information, but the rest of what I heard sounds a bit wacko so I don't want to go spouting it off. If anyone wants more details contact me.
2006-06-14 05:04:50 · answer #2 · answered by the_Goober 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-06-14 05:02:38 · answer #3 · answered by Sifu Shaun 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He appealed to a government agency some years ago, in an attempt to get psychiatric help for himself paid for.
The "church" offers services that must be paid for. The catch is that you can't be much of a scientologist without those. The belief itself is based on those "methods."
2006-06-14 05:06:43 · answer #4 · answered by alittledifferant 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! L. Ron Hubbard
2006-06-14 05:02:06 · answer #5 · answered by RandyGE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. One of the major cities it started in is Cincinnati, Ohio... which I live right across the river from. And he wasn't unsuccessful ROFL!!!! Dianetics...
2006-06-14 06:37:11 · answer #6 · answered by Kithy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure I would call him unsuccessful. He published a bunch of books.They weren't very good but still getting published several times is no easy feat.
2006-06-14 05:02:36 · answer #7 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of unsuccessful people turn to religion for assistance.
2006-06-14 05:01:52 · answer #8 · answered by Just passing through. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yup. I tried to read one of his books a while ago, just to see what all of the fuss was about, and it was horrible. I had to stop a few chapters in because of how boring it was.
2006-06-14 05:02:48 · answer #9 · answered by Not Allie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow! no I didn't. That makes some sense though! But I did some research and found out that it is true! wow!!!
2006-06-14 05:03:24 · answer #10 · answered by londonllama 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋