Belief Question answered by FredricRice in Scientology spiritfilled27 asked this question on 8/28/2000:

What is Scientology? What are your beliefs? ANd by whom was this religion created by and when?
FredricRice gave this response on 8/29/2000:

Scientology is _many_ things; far too many to enumerate briefly on such a forum as AskMe.COM. At its core, however, it is a financial scam patterned closely along the lines of the old Ponzi scam but with what bunko law enforcement agencies call "bait and switch" fraud as its primary basis.

The Scientology organization was originally created by an insane madman named L. Ron Hubbard who suffered from a combination of high intelligence, mental delusions, and drug use. He started the whole thing as a short science fiction story, found that people liked it, and then started selling it as a freakishly bizarre replacement for psychology.

When he and his fellow frauds couldn't prove anything in his science fiction book "Dianetics" actually worked, he talked with his latest wife about pretending to make his organization into a religion so that the scoundrels could acquire tax exemption status and thus hang on to more of their take.

Thus we are left with a criminal organization pretending to be a religion. The FBI raided the crooks routinely over the years and many of the ringleaders have gone to prison. The biggest series of raids against the crooks was in 1977 which yielded 11 felony indictments and prison terms -- not to mention a bewildering large number of defendants named as unindicted co-conspirators, many of which are still running the racket today.

In additional to the financial fraud passing itself off -- and hiding -- under the cloak of religion, Scientology is also a 'technology' that the crooks sell. They have to sell _something_ even though it's valueless because they would all be arrested for running a pyrimid scheme which the Federal Trade Commission goes after aggressively.

The 'technology' they sell is insane stuff that L. Ron Hubbard hacked up while stoned on illegal psychological drugs (Hubbard died screaming about invisible space aliens while hopped-up on drugs. His death certificate is available on the Internet.)

Over the years since Hubbard died screaming, the Scientology organization has systematically altered Hubbard's writings -- while not telling their followers and denying it every step of the way since Hubbard has a policy specifically forbidding altering the 'technology.' So what the criminal organization sells to its rubes these days is quite different than what Hubbard came up with.

The Scientology criminal organization also doesn't let their followers know that Scientology 'technology' is available for free widely on the Internet -- the FreeZone contains 'clearing technology' which is closer to what Hubbard came up with and which is vastly superior to what the Scientology criminal organization is selling these days.

The reason why Scientology is also a "bait and switch" fraud is because the criminal organization suckers people in by telling them they have mental, emotional, physical, and personal problems which they can cure. The sucker purchases these fake cures and spends a great deal of money.

Eventually the suckers are either drained dry of money or they are told that there's some other reason why the 'cure' isn't working. The solution? More expensive 'cures' to solve _that_ new problem after which the original problem can then be address -- at more expense.

Eventually the suckers who stay with the fraud long enough are ordered to purchase something called "OT3" or Operation Thetan Level 3. In that document the suckers are told that the root of all their problems is because they're infested with the invisible fragments of murdered space aliens called "Body Thetans" which require even more money to exorcise with Scientology 'technology.' Like the traditional Ponzi scam, the Scientology fraud never ends. The goal of being cured of all medical and mental problems is held out to the rubes and the real suckers keep buying the 'cures' to attain that goal, never twigging to the fact that the 'cure' is always out of reach regardless of how much money they throw to the crooks.

Most people twigg to the scam after two years and some $10,000 U. S. Dollars. Some never twigg even after 20 years and they end up losing everything -- including their wives and children - to the criminal organization yet, like any common heroin addict knowing it's bad for them, keep on destroying themselves.

Judicial findings around the world have a concensus about what Scientology is: A criminal organization the equal to the Italian Mafia.

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