Question:
What
do
Scientologists believe with regards to God?
Answer:
See
the following example extract taken from Chapter 15 of the
book, SCIENCE
OF SURVIVAL: PREDICTION OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR,
by L. Ron
Hubbard..
The
Supreme
Being
"One might postulate two
more realities. The first is that of the Supreme being. No culture in
the history of the world, save the thoroughly depraved and expiring
ones, has failed to affirm the existence of a Supreme Being. It is an
empirical observation that men without a strong and lasting faith in a
Supreme Being are less capable, less ethical and less valuable to
themselves and society. A government wishing to deprave its people to
the point where they will accept the most perfidious and rotten acts,
abolishes first the concept of God. And in the wake of that, destroys
the family with Free Love, the intellectual with police-enforced
idiocies, and so reduces a whole population to an estate somewhat below
that of dogs. A man without an abiding faith is, by observation alone,
more of a thing than a man. Modern science, producing weapons for the
annihilation of men, women and children in the wholesale lots, has
solidly run itself aground on the reef of godlessness. Modern science
has gone so far as to advocate the rise of Man from mud and clay alone,
has denied to him even a semblance of a soul and so has not only solved
none of the problems of the humanities, but has aided and abetted a
godless, totalitarian government which seeks nothing less than the
engulfment and enslavement of all men and the extinguishment of every
spark of decency in the breast of every human being. these two tracks
which have led away from the affirmation of the existence of a Supreme
Being (modern science and totalitarianism) are both bringing Man into a
machinelike state of being, where the ideal has become a lump of
muscle, greasy with sweat, or a grimy mechanic serving a howling
monster of steel. the arts, the humanities and the decencies are fallen
away from until they are like tiny stars shining across a great, black
void. The abandonment of the admission of a Supreme Being, as a reality
intimate to the life of Man, makes prostitution the ideal conduct of a
woman, perfidity and betrayal the highest ethic level attainable by a
man, and obliteration by treachery, bomb and gun the highest goal
attainable by a culture. Thus, there is no great argument about the
reality of the Supreme Being, since one sees in the failure to
countenance that reality, a slimy and loathsome trail downward into the
most vicious depths."
L.
Ron Hubbard
There
is more in the book: SCIENCE
OF SURVIVAL: PREDICTION OF HUMAN
BEHAVIOR.
countenance: to give or express
approval to; to permit
or tolerate.
perfidious: treacherous, deceitful.
perfidity: a deliberate act
of faithfulness or
treachery; deception.
totalitarian: of,
relating to, being or imposing a form of government in which the
political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all
aspects of life, the individual is made subordinate to the state and
opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed.
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