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Can Scientologists be Christians or Jews Too?

August 2, 2022 By Mike Rinder 2 Comments

This is the eighth "vacation" post, revisiting some of the more  important articles to have appeared on my blog over the years. The original post and comments is here.   Scientology likes to tell the world that you can be a scientologist and also be a Christian, Jew, Buddhist or anything else. This is an "acceptable truth" (defined by Hubbard this way: Handling truth is a touchy business also. You don't have to tell everything you know-that would jam the comm line too. Tell an acceptable truth. Agreement with one's message is what PR is seeking to achieve. Thus the message … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Scientology Tagged With: Christianity, irs, Jesus Christ, OT III, R6, R6 bank, Scientology, scientology cross

Easter — Scientology Style

April 16, 2022 By Mike Rinder 22 Comments

They are at it again: Scientology pretending it is aligned with Christianity. Celebrating Easter is even more hypocritical than celebrating Christmas -- which almost transcends a religious holiday in most Western countries. But Easter, like Passover is truly a religious day, there is no federal holiday designated for these occasions in the US. This is the day to remember Christ on the cross. And a day for scientology to try to cash in on their "christian-friendly" PR line. But what does Hubbard have to say about this occasion? I have written about this before Can Scientologists be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Scientology Tagged With: Christ, Christianity, Columbus Org, cross, Easter, L. Ron Hubbard, man on the cross, R6 bank

L. Ron Hubbard on God

January 12, 2022 By Mike Rinder 68 Comments

There are often questions about scientology's belief in God. Do they believe or don't they? Scientology goes to some lengths to make it appear "of course we believe in God, it is the 8th Dynamic in scientology." But what that means is pretty vague. Here is what L. Ron Hubbard says about the 8th Dynamic: THE EIGHTH DYNAMIC -- is the urge toward existence as infinity. This is also identified as the Supreme Being. It is carefully observed here that the science of Scientology does not intrude into the dynamic of the Supreme Being. This is called the Eighth Dynamic because the symbol of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: L Ron Hubbard, Scientology Tagged With: 8th dynamic, God, implants, L. Ron Hubbard, R6 bank

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