THE CHURCH THAT SUED THE WORLD

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - The Typist
2. Chapter Two - The Machine
3. Chapter Three - From Mind Hack to Holy Text
4. Chapter Four - From Pages to Pulpit
5. Chapter Five - The Empire of Belief
6. Chapter Six - Exposure, Exodus, and the War for the Narrative
7. Chapter Seven - What Remains When the Belief Cracks

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE The Typist BEFORE THE TEMPLES. Before the lawsuits. Before the tax exemptions and celebrity endorsements and whispered horror stories— there was just a man. A man with a typewriter. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard was born in 1911, in Tilden, Nebraska. He was not a prophet. He was not enlightened. He did not descend from a glowing craft in the desert. He was a writer. A pulp writer. And not in the romantic, tortured Hemingway sense. We’re talking ten-cents-a-word, crank-out-space-adventures-for-quick-cash type writing. Mass-market. Disposable. Fast. In the 1930s and ’40s, Hubbard wrote like his life depended on it—because it did. Adventure magazines. Sci-fi rags. Westerns. Fantasy....