Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com Subject: Scn is expanding? look h Message-ID: <9507041710.0O4RB01@support.com> References: <3t9ik7$mhi@ankh.iia.org> Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 X-Mailer: TBBS/PIMP v3.35/PRIMP 1.56p Distribution: world Date: Tue, 04 Jul 95 17:10:41 -0700 Lines: 43 stark@smtp.prostar.com >From: Tony@sidaway.demon.co.uk >If scientology is expanding, who has the same eight million figure >been quoted for four years running? > >Could this just be another case of the scientologists not living >in the same world as the rest of us? > >Half a million people are supposed to find out about scientology >each year. If just one half of those people received some sort of >scientology service, the 1991 quoted figure of 8 million would be >9 million by now. > >It's still 8 million. Stark: >It's even worse than that. > >I've stated this repeatedly on this newsgroup, and here I go again :) > >When I was involved in scientology circa 1986, the claim was that there >were 10 million scientologists. > >So it would appear that Scientology lost 2 million members between 86 and >91, and since then has stagnated entirely, neither gaining nor losing. > >Perhaps the missing 2 million were just Hubbard's body thetans, who went >with him when he went off to another galaxy. > >Stark In my KFI radio debate with Heebie Jeebie, he claimed *2.5* million African kids were taught to read by the scienos. They can't keep their false stats straight. +--------------------------------------+ Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * * dennis.l.erlich@support.com + inForm@primenet.com "tar baby"