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Continued from previous pageThe Founding Church of Scientology in Washington, D.C., is in a rather shabby row house. The living room has been converted into an office and bookstore, the double size dining room into a lecture hall, and upstairs bedrooms into offices and classrooms. But despite the architectural nonconformity, to say nothing of its utter rejection of theological considerations, Scientology insists on calling itself a church. Moreover, it makes a special pitch to Christians by attempting to harmonize the teachings of founder L. Ron Hubbard with Scripture. Forty-four pages of the booklet Scientology and the Bible are set up in parallel columns with this objective. That often there is not the remotest correspondence between the Hubbard passages and the accompanying biblical quotations may be seen in the following examples:

SCIENTOLOGYTHE FACTORS. 3. The first action of beingness is to assume a viewpoint.GIC 18. A POSTULATE IS AS VALUABLE AS IT IS WORKABLE.Axiom 1. LIFE IS BASICALLY A STATIC. Definition: A Life Static has no mass, no motion, no wavelength, no location in space or in time. It has the ability to postulate and to perceive.Axiom 16. COMPLETE DE STRUCTION IS ACCOMPLISHED BY THE POSTULATION OF THE AS-IS-NESS OF ANY EXISTENCE AND THE PARTS THEREOF.Axiom 54. A TOLERANCE OF CONFUSION AND AN AGREED-UPON STABLE DATUM ON WHICH TO ALIGN THE DATA IN A CONFUSION ARE AT ONCE NECESSARY FOR A SANE REACTION ON THE EIGHT DYNAMICS. THIS DEFINES SANITY.

THE HOLY SCRIPTURESSt. John 1:5—And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. St. John 5:17—But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. St. John 10:28—And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither ...