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

Behind the Bastards

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The Very Worst People in All of History

Caitlyn Durante of the Bactylcaste, comedian and fan of Elrond Hubbard. Love some LRH. I had a weird time researching this because I wanted to hate him,. It's really hard to hate him. He might be the most ambitious con artist in human history. So he was born appropriating other cultures. His grandfather owned a guitar with a black man's head carved onto the top of it. That's a detail you'll run into a number of times.

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