“A major cause of mankind’s problems began 75 million years ago,” the Times wrote, when the planet Earth, then called Teegeeack, was part of a confederation of ninety planets under the leadership of a despotic ruler named Xenu. “Then, as now, the materials state, the chief problem was overpopulation.” Xenu decided “to take radical measures.” The documents explained that surplus beings were transported to volcanoes on Earth. “The documents state that H-bombs far more powerful than any in existence today were dropped on these volcanoes, destroying the people but freeing their spirits—called thetans—which attached themselves to one another in clusters.” Those spirits were “trapped in a compound of frozen alcohol and glycol,” then “implanted” with “the seed of aberrant behavior.” The Times account concluded, “When people die, these clusters attach to other humans and keep perpetuating themselves.”
From the New Yorker.
Is it possible there be an adult of normal capacity on the planet who believes this dreck?
No, but the problem doesn't stop there.
The founder of this enterprise, L Ron Hubbard, has foundered with his own autobiobgraphy. In Dianetics, the bible of this creepy cult, he explains the central thesis of his hustle, which was his own magical mystery cure from multiple war wounds utilizing the secrets he founded. However, his military medical records do not bear him out. Now, a spokesman for Scientology is one Tommy Davis, who states the case quite clearly.
... if it was true that Hubbard had not been injured, then “the injuries that he handled by the use of Dianetics procedures were never handled, because they were injuries that never existed; therefore, Dianetics is based on a lie; therefore, Scientology is based on a lie.” He concluded, “The fact of the matter is that Mr. Hubbard was a war hero.”
The discharge document of Mr Hubbard from Military Records Center is represented in the New Yorker article, and you can see it here, along with the obvious forgery produced by the cult.
http://www.newyorker.com/...
To sum up.
(1) Hubbard based his whole game on his self-created divine delivery from wounds suffered in WWII.
(2) The wounds did not exist.
(3) Under that condition, the founding principle of the cult is, as their own spokesman admitted, a lie.
Game, set, match.