... if you're dumb enough to hand over your money to some space ship religion, you deserve to be robbed...
Scientology is Fraud in Any Country. It's only officially fraud in France. One of these days the U.S. will catch on too.Scientology was created as a joke. Hubbard created it after a discussion between himself, Heinlein, Asimov and Campbell when they were all still writing pulp for Campbell. I am not sure if Harlan Ellison was involved, I seem to recall him writing about the discussion. Heinlein and Asimov both wrote about it. The point was whether a church could be founded on made-up principles and disciplines. Hubbard proved it could be done. A recluse later in life, he was probably imprisoned by his own followers. (for his own good, of course) He was probably unable to pop the "gotcha" if he ever intended to renounce it for what it is. Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" is RAH's reply to Hubbard's Scientology in some ways. The Fosterites being the C. of S. and Foster being murdered by his successor, prophetic in more ways than one. "The marks love a big blow-off."