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L. Ron Hubbard urban legend (was: Mormon bashing again)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 01:33:31 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> > I heard a conspiracy theory once that Scientology is the result of a bet
> > between Hubbard and Heinlein on who could build a bogus religion faster.
> > Heinlein lost because the editors chopped too much from _Stranger in a
> > Strange Land_.
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> I've heard that as well... I suspect it's an urban legend (or whatever the SF
> equivalent is?), but only they know for sure, and I don't think they're
> telling.
I have to agree with James Brown's guess. I've heard the same story, except
that the two writers were L. Ron Hubbard and Frank Herbert. Herbert, of
course, wrote _Dune_, the SF classic with generous helpings of Islam. When you
have multiple versions of a story, that agree in some respects but not others,
I immediately think "urban legend."
--
John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D.
Department of Structural Biology
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA 94305
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Message is in Reply To:
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| (...) I've heard that as well... I suspect it's an urban legend (or whatever the SF equivalent is?), but only they know for sure, and I don't think they're telling. (...) The Church of $cientology, as Hubbard set it up, is (also IMHO) seriously (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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