Title: Scientology, a fraud religion.
Author: wbarwell@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (William Barwell)
Date: 18 Oct 1997 14:43:57 -0500

>
>>Hubbard was not sincere about Scientology being placed on a religous basis
>>was he?  What else could he have meant that nothing was changed, that it
>>was a matter for solicitors and accountants only?
>
>He was most likely *very* serious about putting Scientology on a
>religious basis.  That's how he planned to have his scam taken
>seriously.  

No, he was not putting it on a 'religous basis'.  He wanted his scam 
to take in fools but he knew Scientology was no real religion.

 
Society, thirsting for more control of more people substitutes religion
for
the spirit, the body for the soul, an identity for the individual and
science and data for truth.  In this direction lies insanity, increasing
slavery, less knowingness, greater scarcity  and less society.
 
Scientology has opened the gates to a better World.  IT IS NOT A
PSYCHO-THERAPY NOR A RELIGION.  It is a body of knowledge which, when
properly used, gives freedom and truth to the individual.
 
  -- L. Ron Hubbard, "The Creation of Human Ability"
     Los Angeles: A.S.H.O., 1971, page 251
 

From History of Man   LRH  1952
Chapter 8 
 
Theta clearing is about as practical and simple as repairing a shoe lace.
It is nothing to do with hypnotism, voodooism, charalatanism, monkeyism
or theosophy. Done, the thetan can do anything a stage magician can do in 
in the way of moving objects around. But this isn't attained by holding
one's breathe or thinking right thoughts or voting Republican or any
other superstitous or mystic practice. So for the reason I brought up,
rule out, auditor, any mumbo jumbo or mysticism, spiritualism, or
religion.
 
LRH
 
 
Hubbard was a fraud, he claimed it was NOT a religion until he
decided for purposes of advantage he would draw the cloak of religion
around his pseudoscience.

A similar fraud was Scientology's exact opposite, creation science.
Which was a purposeful and untruthful campaign to dress creationism up 
in scientific clothes to try to use this fraud science to push out
real science from classrooms in Arkanasas and elsewhere. Like Hubbard, the
neo-creationists left quite a trail of pamphlets, journals and books
detailing their purposeful fraud that essentially sunk them in federal
court when the evidence of their fraud was presented. 

A fraud is a fraud, whether trusting people buy the fraud or not.
A counterfeit $20 bill is still a counterfeit whether you notice the bill
you accepted is fake or not.


Like wise, at the turn of the century, spiritualist churches were
hotbeds of fraud religion. Fake mediums, tricking bereaved people
sucked them dry, draining them remorselessly of money for "the cause".
The fraud mediums had two terms, 'shuteye' and 'openeye'.
And openeye was a medium that knew the big and fancy phenomena
of the spiritualist churches were all frauds. They were the in group, 
who usually aided and abetted each other in their frauds, and with these
spectacular frauds, kept the whole show going.
They made the big money.

The shuteyes were the corner medium, who did not know it was all a fake
and a fraud, and was most apologetic about her paltry gifts and powers,
lack of much abilities, and lack of spectacular phenomena.
These shuteyes were more alternative church services for spiritualist
believers, more social phenomenon than 'real' mediums. A place
to spend a Sunday afternoon prattling about metaphysical balderdash with
the like minded. and convince themselves there was truth to this fraud.
But they were important to the openeyes because they supplied the veneer
of repectability and believability to the whole sorry enterprise.
Afterall, these people were so sincere and open about their own lack of
great abilities, it can't be a fake, can it?
These people were an important part of of the charade of telling the world
mediums and their phenomena were not fakes and frauds.

Like the spiritualist believer, the Creation Scientist believers, the 
low level Scientologist, a fraud is still not a real religion, it is
simply a fraud religion that fools people, and often, takes advantage of
them, imposes on them, tricks then for ulterior motives, a fraud with an
agenda.

At the bottom, we had the spiritualist believers, the shuteyes, being
imposed on by sniggering openeyes, fraud, fakes, money grubbing
and vicious thieves, no better than fake faith healers.

At the bottom, we have shuteye Scientologists, being used as catspaws
by the sniggering openeye cult leaders, who defraud their own belivers and
society.

Like the creationist leaders and 'intellectuals' that set out to
purposefully lie to society and their own believers about "scientific
creationism' being a science when they knew full well every step of the
way it was indeed, an imposter, a fraud, a fake.

But all these fakes were fakes even if a few people were tricked into
believing otherwise.

And now you know why the Creation Scientists no longer try to use 
federal courts to push their agenda.

And what killed the spiritualist churches was magicians
and the press. Who made debunking mediums and spiritualist
churches a great adventure.
The invention of the flashlight and the small camera with a flash
finished them off. 'Ghost-grabbing' became quite the fraternity
activity and police bunco squads caught many a medium dressed in
phosphorus painted cheese clothe prancing around in the seance
room on film with a small camera and a flash smuggled into the seance
room.

Now it's Scientology's turn and it is the net that will do them in.
It is no religion, it is a fraud.

Plain and simple and it is being exposed.

Pope Charles
SubGenius Pope Of Houston
Slack!