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According the the book, the Barefaced Messiah by Russel Miller, A Sunday Times journalist, L Ron Hubbard who founded Scientology said that one way to get rich was to create a religion.

Incidentally the Church of Scientology did all sorts of dirty tricks to stop that book coming out.

From my reading of the book and research in to this group, L Ron Hubbard was a thoroughly nasty individual who scammed people. As far as some of the "beliefs" go, it is worth noting that L Ron Hubbard used to right stories for the magazine "Astounding Stories" a Sci Fi magazine