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Re: Mormon bashing again
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 5 Mar 2000 06:32:27 GMT
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LPIENIAZEK@nomorespamNOVERA.COM
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James Brown wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> > Mr L F Braun wrote:
> > > James Brown wrote:
> > > > 1:Except Scientology. Legal status aside, that is NOT a religion.
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> > 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_.
I've heard a version of this attributed to RAH himself, in a book that
he at least had some control over, so I'd tend to give it some credence
but who knows.
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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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