LA Times - Review: HBO's 'Going Clear' a remarkable glimpse into Scientology
The LA Times reports: "It's well-known that Hubbard started out as a writer of pulp fiction,
including science fiction; but, notwithstanding his oft-repeated
assertion that (as given here in the words of his unacknowledged second
wife Sara Northrup) 'the only way to make any real money was to have a
religion, a religion where he could have an income and the government
wouldn't take it away from him in the form of taxes,' he seems to have
truly believed that he had discovered a force for world-changing good. [..] from the outside, the rites and rituals of the church can seem a little absurd, including the "e-meter' that supposedly measures 'the mass of thoughts'; the 'billion-year' contract signed by members of the inner-circle Sea Organization; the unquestioning reverence for Hubbard as the sole source of these revelations."
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