![]() Ron Hubbard, who once told an employee that his adherents wanted him to appear in the sky over New York but that he declined, not wishing to overwhelm them. Its founder was the science fiction writer L. ![]() Scientology has been a target, too, of much derision. Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential election because he was the lesser candidate still, it couldn’t have helped that every time he stood before a crowd in his banker’s suit, the television audience was yearning for X-ray glasses, the better with which to see his sacred undergarments. Mormonism has suffered most recently and obviously from this bias. Newfangled religions, outre theology, secret rituals - these are threatening and titillating in equal measure the more a religion’s leaders block or deflect reporters’ probes, the more the public wants to know (and the more sinister the faith can seem). We like our spirituality comfy and upbeat, suitable for summarizing on a Hallmark card. Americans have a suspicion, justified or not, of unfamiliar faiths. ![]()
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