Lies Debunked: Why is Scientology called a religion?

And now for the truth

And that's complete nonsense. Documents seized by Federal authorities over the year show that L. Ron Hubbard started trying to demand that his criminal scam was some how a religion so that he would not have to pay taxes or otherwise b sent to prison for failing to pay taxes on the money he was raking in from the rubes.

In March of 1953, L. Ron Hubbard wrote to his colleague Helen O'Brien:

"I await your reaction on the religion angle. In my opinion, we couldn't get worse public opinion than we have had or have less customers with what we've got to sell. A religious charter would be necessary in Pennsylvania or NJ to make it stick. But I sure could make it stick."

"Customers." "Selling." "Making it stick." Scientology's own internal documents show that it is a business -- and its criminal history shows that it's a criminal enterprise. In numerous other documents that have either been seized by Federal officials or smuggled out of the crime syndicate, we find the deliberate deception to try to pretend that Scientology is some how a religion further exposed.

As an example, in 1962 Hubbard wrote:

"Scientology 1970 is being planned on a religious organization basis throught the world. This will not upset in any way the usual activities of any organization. It is entirely a matter for accountants and solicitors" (HCOPL 29 October 1962 "Religion").

So Hubbard admits to his fellow criminals that the deception that they're some how a religion is for money and lawyers. When Hubbard's crackpot medical healing claims began receiving scrutiny by governments and others, Hubbard apparently saw the need to distance his claims away from the secular to the religious. In United States v. Article or Device, etc.) the court stated:

"The bulk of the material is replete with falsehood medical and scientific claims devoid of any religious overlay or reference."

Hubbard started trying to make his criminal enterprise look like it was some how religious. In yet another document seized by the authorities, we read:

"...promotion of the practice of Dianetics as a treatment for the sick or afflicted... by other than medical doctors, will violate the medical practice laws where they exist and lead to trouble" (HCOPL 3 June 1969, "Legal Statement Concerning Dianetics and Medical Practice Laws").

So to try to avoid the laws against practicing medicine without a license and to avoid the laws punishing bunko fraud, Hubbard began to set policy on how to make Scientology appear to be religious. In yet another once secret document seized by the authorities, we read:

"Visual evidences that Scientology is a religion are mandatory on the PES... Stationary is to reflect the fact that orgs are churches... " (HCOPL of 12 February 1969, "Religion").

So we find that Scientology's attempts to pretend they're some how a religion to be a deliberate deception by their mad messiah L. Ron Hubbard. This is somewhat ironic since Scientology tells their followers (after they purchase the privelage, of course) that religion is an "implant" created specifically to keep humanity enslaved and that Chrisrtianity was started "when some madman discovered a piece of R6." Hubbard demanded, "The man on the cross. There was no man on the cross!" and then went on to describe how the "image"e; of a betrayed "thetan" -- Jesus -- is all an "implant."

But Scientology's belief that religion is a trap and that Christianity was created by a mad man et al. is prefectly acceptable as beliefs and few would suggest that Scientology has no right to such beliefs. In fact Scientology lies about what they believe and that's just simply wrong.

The Scientology spokesperson quoted above mentions "dynamics" and claims that layer number is 8 a "Supremem Being" -- in the hopes that you'll mistakenly assume that they're talking about god or gods (or even goddesses.) A "dynamic" in Scientology is a subgrouping with -- horribly -- the Scientology cult subgrouping being placed above the family subgrouping thus making giving money to the Scientology organization and devoting one's life to the Scientology organization more important than one's own family.