2007-10-14 07:13:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, it REALLY was invented by a writer. His name was L. Ron Hubbard. He'd been a science fiction writer and an occult enthusiast (he called Crowley a "very good friend") before starting the cult of Scientology. He was also a criminal (stole millions from his "church"), a racist (he was known to have wrote several disparaging remarks about the Chinese people and African natives), a hypocrite (he was known, in his later years, to have heavily used the kind of psychotropic drugs he had opposed for so long) and a total fraud.
Hubbard was & still is a controversial figure. Biographies & lists of personal accomplishments differ greatly between Scientology & non-Scientology publications as the “church” tends to exaggerate & outright lie about his early life, his education, his travels, his achievements etc, preferring to paint a distorted, flattering picture. Several books & articles present facts which flatly contradict these church-published accounts (links to free online copies of these books & articles are provided below), showing conclusively that he was NOT the brilliant, accomplished figure revered by Scientologists. During his autopsy, the sedative Vistaril™ was present in his body, which several of his assistants would later attest was only one of many psychiatric & pain medications Hubbard ingested over the years. It had also been said by many who knew Hubbard personally that at the end of his life he was “a psychopathic insane person screaming about BT's [Body Thetans]…”
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/Bare%20Faced%20Messiah.pdf
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/contents.htm
http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/mom/Messiah_or_Madman.txt
http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/tsos/sos.html
http://lisatrust.bogie.nl/scientology/essays/jeff-hubbard.htm
2007-10-14 08:43:29 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
L. Ron Hubbard, a second-rate science-fiction writer. According to gossip (which may or may not be true), he was at a party and made a wager that anyone could start their own religion and there'd be lots of takers because most people would rather be shot at dawn than think for themselves. His wager was taken up and a few months later, POOF! scientology was hatched.
Whattaya know. Hubbard was right!
2007-10-14 07:18:59 · answer #2 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
L. Ron Hubbard. Before he created Scientology he said that the best way to make a million dollars was to invent a religion.
2007-10-14 07:17:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes... L. Ron Hubbard. It's one of the reasons that Scientologists get a lot of grief, because he was a scifi writer. The thing that the general public doesn't understand, though, is that no Scientologists out there actually believe the mythology he wrote up.
2007-10-14 07:18:19 · answer #4 · answered by xx. 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
L. Ron Hubbard. This doesn't mean it's a scam. L. Ron Hubbard himself, studied under some heavyweights in the religion creation world... Read about his early life.
2007-10-14 07:22:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I heard that L. Ron Hubbard (the L stands for Lafayette.. HA HA!) was on a 'diet of drugs' when he was writing the Dianetics book. Strung out more than Terrence McKenna.
So if anyone asks you how you got here, proudly reply, "Science fiction!" like in ATHF
2007-10-14 07:54:36 · answer #6 · answered by beztvarny 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Like most SciFi writers the guy was a pretty good researcher. He gathered together lots of self-help tactics and built them into some courses people could take back in the 1950s when that kind of help had to be either medical or religious. His name is L.Ron Hubbard. He also wrote books in lots of other genre but people really like to point to the scifi stuff.
Apparently there is also a bunch of "beliefs" that are fairly scifi but in the couple of years I hung around them I never heard any of that. I only read it here from people who got their info from a cartoon.
2007-10-14 17:24:33 · answer #7 · answered by Gandalf Parker 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
L. Ron Hubbard. He was so confident in his beliefs, he ran off with a pile of money and spent the rest of his life in exile living on a boat.
2007-10-14 07:17:36 · answer #8 · answered by Resident Heretic 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I heard that It was INVENTED by Ron Hubbard AND they he ORIGINALLY Was a Science FICTION Writer
2007-10-14 07:22:33 · answer #9 · answered by . 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.
invented it on a bet that he could make up a new religion and get followers. he won.
2007-10-14 07:16:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋