Was L. Ron Hubbard really that evil?

>>2227095
That depends, is a scammer evil? The French convicted him of fraud in absentia in 1978 and sentenced him to 4 years of prison.

>>2227095
piss off alistair crowley

Good boy

Dindu nuffin

He jus needed dem Hollywood monies for Xenu

It's easy to forget that Hubbard was pretty decent author during the Golden age of pulps. He was nowhere near the level of Asimov or Lovecraft, but he still managed to achieve some genuine brilliance with novellas like "Fear".

Then came Scientology.

>>2227095
He was a sociopath like all religious leaders.

>>2227095
I wouldn't say 'evil', but he was definitely a kooky, unhinged, hypocritical and deadbeat conman.

>>2227095

He's about as evil as anyone else I can think of. He deliberately created a massive structure for exploiting, deceiving, and abusing as many other people as he could sucker into it. Read about what happens to scientology members, shit's pretty disturbing. They get smooth talked into the door with a free personality test and then progressively pot committed into a worse and worse situation as they're isolating from their friends and family and coerced into contributing more and more of their time, money, and labor so that when they start to realize how completely psychotic their new environment is it's already too late. The ones who have the resolve to leave are assaulted with nuisance lawsuits, phony bills, and lifelong stalking / surveillance, and the ones who don't are so mindbroken by realizing what they've done to themselves that they feel like their only choice is to accept their psychotic cult as the truth.

>>2227095

So one day Aleister Crowley, L.Ron Hubbard and Kenneth Anger walk into a bar.

(This is an opening for a joke that I have never fully written. I invite help).

>>2227095
He turned /rel/ into /biz/ again.
Most religions had lost sight of the bottom line. He fixed that.

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