Harlan Ellison said he was a young fan in the pro-suite when L. Sprague Decamp essentialy “provoked” Hubbard on the Dianetics/Scientology path to riches–though Hubbard already was deeply involved with Occultism, via Jack Parsons (a Crowley devotee)
Let me clarify, “Spragie” was anything but an occultist himself. A secular humanist and skeptic, according to his friends Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Sprague was a moral absolutist who definelty believed in good and evil–which is why those two writers placed him in the “circle of virtuous pagans” in Escape From Hell
. It has no religious teachings just some alien mumbo jumbo so it is just a scam. Saying it is a cult gives it to much power then what is has already.I think the reason that scientology attracts so many rich people is the fact that it’s one of the few religions that validates their money. Many of these rich and famous have little in the way of a family life of any kind, and the only thing that has value in their emoty, shallow lives, is money. And scientology is one of the few religions that gives their money worth since money lets them grow in the church.
The real disaster is what it does to its followers.
LaVey isnt a true satanist nor is the Laverian church really satanist, they are just athiests who want shock value and orgys. they dont worship Satan, they dont even believe hes real, they just like scaring the s*%$ out of Christians and wearing black.
haha, because im sucha satanistHi, Hunter24,
There is no substitute for an expert opinion…
God bless
Amen:extrahappy:
