By Larry Short
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L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer and founder of the Scientology cult. |
Check it out for yourself, if you dare: http://www.scientology.org/l-ron-hubbard.html
Then I thought, "Wow, he seems way too amazing to be real. Perhaps I need to fact-check some of the statements they made. I wonder where I can do that?" And I instantly thought of Wikipedia. I know Wikipedia is not always perfect, but it frequently errs on the side of giving all the perspectives that are out there. So I went to Wikipedia and read their lengthy and very well-documented account of Hubbard's life.
I was astonished, as I think you will be, by all that the Church's website had omitted, or cast in a positive light, or twisted in a seeming desire to explain the same events away.
I'll let you form your own conclusion. But for me, based on what I read, Hubbard comes as close to the embodiment of a true pathological liar of anyone I have ever read about. This experience gives me a new respect, if you could call it that, for the demonic forces that are apparently so driven to deceive people and lead them astray from the truth of God's grace and mercy bestowed to us through Jesus Christ.
The fact that there are people out there who would create a false religion based on their own made-up ideas and fantasies, purely out of greed and lust, is sobering. Don't they know they are playing with people's souls? Talk about having to give an account.
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