Walter Martin
Author of "The Kingdom of Cults"
The
Kingdom of Cults: L. Ron Hubbard
| «Several competent writers have gathered
contradictory evidence of Hubbard’s exaggerated vita and
have challenged his claims. None are so thoroughly
damaging to his credentials than Russell Miller’s
Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard and
former Scientologist Bent Corydon’s L. Ron Hubbard,
Messiah or Madman? Miller showed that Hubbard attended
high school in America while he was claiming to have
been traveling Asia. His medical records showed that he
was never crippled, blinded, or wounded in World War II,
let alone being pronounced dead twice. Bent Corydon,
formerly head of one of the most successful Scientology
missions (Riverside, California), has countless court
transcripts, affidavits, and firsthand testimonies that
lay many of L. Ron Hubbard’s claims to rest.» |
The
Kingdom of Cults: Scientology’s Jesus
| «When L. Ron Hubbard mentions Jesus Christ, it is
rarely in reverence and mostly with disparagement. A few
lines previously, we saw that Mr. Hubbard refused to
believe in the Christian Christ. Implants are false
concepts forced upon a Thetan, and Scientology chalks up
“Christ” as an implant more than a million years ago. He
wrote, “You will find the Christ legend as an implant in
pre-clears a million years ago.”» |
The
Kingdom of Cults: Scientology’s Salvation
| «Scientologists prefer to use the term “rebirth”
instead of “reincarnation,” although reincarnation is
found in their writings. Hubbard emphasized that
salvation is to be free from the endless cycle of birth
and rebirth. The way to salvation is to erase engrams
through auditing. The proof to many Scientologists that
they release engrams through auditing is the
accompanying sign. “When one releases an engram,”
Hubbard wrote, “the erasure is accompanied by yawns,
tears, sweat, odor, panting, urine, vomiting, and
excreta.”» |
The
Kingdom of Cults: Scientology’s Theology
| «Hubbard, then, finds no contradiction in
promulgating polytheism. In his Phoenix Lectures, he
indiscriminately allowed for monotheism or polytheism:
“Let us take up what amounts to probably ten thousand
years of study on the part of Man, on the identity of
God or gods. ” He also exposes false gods commingled
with true gods. “There are gods above all other gods,”
he wrote. “There is not argument here against the
existence of a Supreme Being or any devaluation
intended. It is that amongst the gods, there are many
false gods elected to power and position.» |
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