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Part One: How L. Ron Hubbard Lied His Way to Godhood

Behind the Bastards

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Scientology and the Birth of a Fetus

Many of these ideas are still present in Scientology today. Diagnetics was not an instant success, but within the first couple of weeks of publication, it spread very widely enough to earn bestseller status and provoke its first negative press. In 39 short years, Elrond Hubbard had gone from a fake blood brother of the Blackfoot Indian tribe to a fake war hero, real trash novelist. And that is what we're going to get into in part two.

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