To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 18:47:06 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] The Church of Scientology
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

On Sat, 06 Apr 2002 16:49:31 -0500 Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
writes:

> Having been around since The Founding Church of Scientology was
> established in 1955 in Washington, D.C., all I can say is "Good for the

> Germans!"   The tax fraud perpetuated by this phony religion should
never have > been  allowed to happen.  Hubbard was very open in 1955
about how Scientology
> (unlike Dianetics) would be a religion for tax purposes.  And why did
he
> need this shield?  Because (again, unlike Dianetics) Scientology was
> *designed* to make money.
>
> The Scientologists' goal to to follow the Mormon Church and turn
> their money-making nut-cult into a mainstream, established religion
within
> 100 years.   At the nearly 50-year point, they are now able to glimpse
> their goal in the near-distance.   No doubt partly thanks to Tom
Cruise,
> et al.
>
> *Sigh*....
>
> --Ted White

I think L. Ron Hubbard once said something to the following effect:  If
you want to make a lot of money for yourself, you have to go into
business.  But if you want to make even more money, start your own
religion.

My recollection is that the IRS fought hard on the COS tax exemption, and
that the COS prevailed in the courts because the regulations existing at
the time they applied for tax exemption gave no grounds for denying their
application.  Since then, so I have heard, the IRS has altered the
regulations so that only religions which existed before 1955 can qualify.

But could you elaborate on the difference between Dianetics and
Scientology?  I thought Dianetics was pretty much part and parcel of
Scientology.  I know that Scientology offers treatments by 'e-meter',
where the subject holds what amounts to two tin cans connected to an
ohmmeter/Wheatstone bridge circuit, paying large sums of money for the
treatments.  Also, for even more money, one may learn the secrets of
Scientologist cosmology.

Ron Kean

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