A brief History of Scientology
The Scientology is a fairly new religion founded by Ron L. Hubbard in1954, a college dropout due to failing grades. Although he would later claim a distinguished wartime navel career, Ron never, in fact, saw combat, he left the US Navy requesting psychiatric care from the Veterans Administration. Ron had two polygamous fail marriages, and then he found success writing pulp/science fiction. In the late 1940s, Ron declared writing for a penny a word is just ludicrous. He stated if a man really wanted to make millions of dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion. In 1948, Ron started looking into magic ritual, the occult, hypnosis and giving demonstration in hypnosis. He then wrote to …show more content…
The book failed, and his foundation began to fall apart due to the public crave for Dianetics and past lives experiences died out or wear off. His financial trustee fell apart. This leaves Ron penniless, and he lost control of the Dianetics. This was when the Scientology was born. According to L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology religion offers a specific path that leads to a complete understanding of one’s true spiritual nature and relationship to self, family, groups, mankind, and the material universe, nonphysical universe, and all life forms. Ron also states this religion addresses the spirit, not the body or the mind, and he believes that man is far more than just a product of his environment. It is ironic to say, “Scientology further holds man to be basically good, and that his spiritual salvation depends upon himself, his fellow and his attainment of brotherhood with the universe”(L. Ron …show more content…
William Booth was just a militant minister who loves the Lord and people. General Booth career started in 1852, when he saw the suffering of the poor and how they were treated by people of privileged status. “He set out to win the lost multitudes of England to Christ,” (http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/history-of-the-salvation-army). General Booth discarded the conventional method of the church gathering, and began walking and preaching to people in the street. General Booth knew poverty and what it was to be poor, because when his father loses all his money due to misfortune. He had to go find work. Booth went work at a pawnbroker as an apprenticed to help support his family. This deprived him of a formal education. His education was limiting to a private tutor form the Methodist Church, due to the long hours of work with very little pay. At the age of thirteen, his father died accepting Christ on his death bed. William and his mother were left to struggle in their poverty, at thirteen William were interested in social reform and wanted to do something. He joined a civic reform movement to try to help alleviate the afflictions of the poor. He later found they were all corrupted as well. At fifteen left the Church of England and began attending the Wesley Chapel of Nottingham. He preaches his first sermon at the age of seventeen and was licensed by the
The Scientology is a fairly new religion founded by Ron L. Hubbard in1954, a college dropout due to failing grades. Although he would later claim a distinguished wartime navel career, Ron never, in fact, saw combat, he left the US Navy requesting psychiatric care from the Veterans Administration. Ron had two polygamous fail marriages, and then he found success writing pulp/science fiction. In the late 1940s, Ron declared writing for a penny a word is just ludicrous. He stated if a man really wanted to make millions of dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion. In 1948, Ron started looking into magic ritual, the occult, hypnosis and giving demonstration in hypnosis. He then wrote to …show more content…
The book failed, and his foundation began to fall apart due to the public crave for Dianetics and past lives experiences died out or wear off. His financial trustee fell apart. This leaves Ron penniless, and he lost control of the Dianetics. This was when the Scientology was born. According to L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology religion offers a specific path that leads to a complete understanding of one’s true spiritual nature and relationship to self, family, groups, mankind, and the material universe, nonphysical universe, and all life forms. Ron also states this religion addresses the spirit, not the body or the mind, and he believes that man is far more than just a product of his environment. It is ironic to say, “Scientology further holds man to be basically good, and that his spiritual salvation depends upon himself, his fellow and his attainment of brotherhood with the universe”(L. Ron …show more content…
William Booth was just a militant minister who loves the Lord and people. General Booth career started in 1852, when he saw the suffering of the poor and how they were treated by people of privileged status. “He set out to win the lost multitudes of England to Christ,” (http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/history-of-the-salvation-army). General Booth discarded the conventional method of the church gathering, and began walking and preaching to people in the street. General Booth knew poverty and what it was to be poor, because when his father loses all his money due to misfortune. He had to go find work. Booth went work at a pawnbroker as an apprenticed to help support his family. This deprived him of a formal education. His education was limiting to a private tutor form the Methodist Church, due to the long hours of work with very little pay. At the age of thirteen, his father died accepting Christ on his death bed. William and his mother were left to struggle in their poverty, at thirteen William were interested in social reform and wanted to do something. He joined a civic reform movement to try to help alleviate the afflictions of the poor. He later found they were all corrupted as well. At fifteen left the Church of England and began attending the Wesley Chapel of Nottingham. He preaches his first sermon at the age of seventeen and was licensed by the