Comments on: Top LA Legends #22: Scientology’s L. Ron Hubbard was a Satanist http://blogging.la/2007/03/05/top-la-legends-22-scientologys-l-ron-hubbard-was-a-satanist/ Lizard people dude. Seriously. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Shannon Love http://blogging.la/2007/03/05/top-la-legends-22-scientologys-l-ron-hubbard-was-a-satanist/comment-page-1/#comment-29008 Shannon Love Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:11:44 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2007/03/05/top-la-legends-22-scientologys-l-ron-hubbard-was-a-satanist/#comment-29008 If Hubbard was a satanist his pre-scientology writings do not give the least hint of it or any other leanings towards mysticism. Indeed, he seems to have been a material rationalist. If Hubbard showed interest in Crowley, I am confident it was Crowley's ability to maintain a cult that interested him, not his supposed cosmology. Issac Asimov devotes a few pages to origins of Scientology in his book and in its initial form, Scientology was just a health gadget scam. Hubbard only claimed religious status after the IRS busted him. The most sacred text of Scientology are plagiarized from a series of science-fiction stories published in the mid to late 40's in the pulps. Hubbard most likely cobbled the "religious" aspects of Scientology together in a hurry in order to create a tax dodge. A bigger influence on Hubbard was the Communist of America whom Hubbard got to observe rather closely during the '30's and '40's in LA. The Scientologist practice of targeting celebrities, for example, is lifted from the communist playbook. If Hubbard was a satanist his pre-scientology writings do not give the least hint of it or any other leanings towards mysticism. Indeed, he seems to have been a material rationalist. If Hubbard showed interest in Crowley, I am confident it was Crowley’s ability to maintain a cult that interested him, not his supposed cosmology.

Issac Asimov devotes a few pages to origins of Scientology in his book and in its initial form, Scientology was just a health gadget scam. Hubbard only claimed religious status after the IRS busted him. The most sacred text of Scientology are plagiarized from a series of science-fiction stories published in the mid to late 40′s in the pulps. Hubbard most likely cobbled the “religious” aspects of Scientology together in a hurry in order to create a tax dodge.

A bigger influence on Hubbard was the Communist of America whom Hubbard got to observe rather closely during the ’30′s and ’40′s in LA. The Scientologist practice of targeting celebrities, for example, is lifted from the communist playbook.

]]> By: la guy http://blogging.la/2007/03/05/top-la-legends-22-scientologys-l-ron-hubbard-was-a-satanist/comment-page-1/#comment-29007 la guy Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:45:08 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2007/03/05/top-la-legends-22-scientologys-l-ron-hubbard-was-a-satanist/#comment-29007 Posted by: <b><i>Oliver Haddo</i></b> Clever. Posted by: Oliver Haddo

Clever.

]]> By: Oliver Haddo http://blogging.la/2007/03/05/top-la-legends-22-scientologys-l-ron-hubbard-was-a-satanist/comment-page-1/#comment-29006 Oliver Haddo Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:47:15 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2007/03/05/top-la-legends-22-scientologys-l-ron-hubbard-was-a-satanist/#comment-29006 So you're saying the proof Hubbard wasn't a Satanist is that ALEISTER CROWLEY wasn't a Satanist? This is completely incoherent; maybe you (and Mickey Kaus who linked to it) ought to read the bio of Jack Parsons, including the whole bit where Parsons, Hubbard and Marjorie Cameron tried to give birth to the anti-Christ, following Crowley's writings (which bothered him no end), and then tell me what exactly the definition of a Satanist is-- if NOT them. So you’re saying the proof Hubbard wasn’t a Satanist is that ALEISTER CROWLEY wasn’t a Satanist? This is completely incoherent; maybe you (and Mickey Kaus who linked to it) ought to read the bio of Jack Parsons, including the whole bit where Parsons, Hubbard and Marjorie Cameron tried to give birth to the anti-Christ, following Crowley’s writings (which bothered him no end), and then tell me what exactly the definition of a Satanist is– if NOT them.

]]> By: havemycake http://blogging.la/2007/03/05/top-la-legends-22-scientologys-l-ron-hubbard-was-a-satanist/comment-page-1/#comment-29005 havemycake Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:20:16 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2007/03/05/top-la-legends-22-scientologys-l-ron-hubbard-was-a-satanist/#comment-29005 no bet with Sun Myung Moon (of the famous Moonies, whom old WB's Survival of the Richest referred to as a "religious empire") to see who could make the most money off of creating a religion? regardless, scientologists are much creepy than i originally thought, after having so much first-hand experience with them... no bet with Sun Myung Moon (of the famous Moonies, whom old WB’s Survival of the Richest referred to as a “religious empire”) to see who could make the most money off of creating a religion? regardless, scientologists are much creepy than i originally thought, after having so much first-hand experience with them…

]]> By: mrhooks http://blogging.la/2007/03/05/top-la-legends-22-scientologys-l-ron-hubbard-was-a-satanist/comment-page-1/#comment-29004 mrhooks Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:35:53 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2007/03/05/top-la-legends-22-scientologys-l-ron-hubbard-was-a-satanist/#comment-29004 Yeah, I heard about the bet too, but in the version I heard, it was a bar bet with Robert Heinlein. Yeah, I heard about the bet too, but in the version I heard, it was a bar bet with Robert Heinlein.

]]> By: ruth666 http://blogging.la/2007/03/05/top-la-legends-22-scientologys-l-ron-hubbard-was-a-satanist/comment-page-1/#comment-29003 ruth666 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:10:32 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2007/03/05/top-la-legends-22-scientologys-l-ron-hubbard-was-a-satanist/#comment-29003 It was started as a bet with a bunch of science fiction writers. It was started as a bet with a bunch of science fiction writers.

]]> By: 5000! http://blogging.la/2007/03/05/top-la-legends-22-scientologys-l-ron-hubbard-was-a-satanist/comment-page-1/#comment-29002 5000! Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:17:17 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/2007/03/05/top-la-legends-22-scientologys-l-ron-hubbard-was-a-satanist/#comment-29002 I'd always heard it was started as the result of a bet with Carl Sagan. I think that sounds like more fun. I’d always heard it was started as the result of a bet with Carl Sagan. I think that sounds like more fun.

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