Author: Lawrence Wright
I picked up this book at the Boston Airport, to entertain me on my long flight back to San Francisco. Going into the book, the only thing I knew was that Scientology was a religion of Hollywood movie stars. However, on reading this book, I was shocked and amazed to learn its gory inner workings.
Lawrence describes Ron Hubbard's early years and how he got started into things that potentially influenced the Scientology religion. The book can be characterized as an exposé and I found it hard to digest that in this day and age people could be brainwashed and forced to a life of hardship in the name of religion. Maybe this quote sum’s up the reason: "Religion supplies a commodity that is always in demand: salvation. "
I picked up this book at the Boston Airport, to entertain me on my long flight back to San Francisco. Going into the book, the only thing I knew was that Scientology was a religion of Hollywood movie stars. However, on reading this book, I was shocked and amazed to learn its gory inner workings.
Lawrence describes Ron Hubbard's early years and how he got started into things that potentially influenced the Scientology religion. The book can be characterized as an exposé and I found it hard to digest that in this day and age people could be brainwashed and forced to a life of hardship in the name of religion. Maybe this quote sum’s up the reason: "Religion supplies a commodity that is always in demand: salvation. "
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