The Supreme Being

Some will ask what is the Scientology belief or doctrine on God.

The founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, had this to write on the subject in the book: Science of Survival: The Prediction of Human Behavior.

The Supreme Being

“One might postulate two more realities. The first is that of the Supreme being. No culture in the history of the world, save the thoroughly depraved and expiring ones, has failed to affirm the existence of a Supreme Being. It is an empirical observation that men without a strong and lasting faith in a Supreme Being are less capable, less ethical and less valuable to themselves and society.

A government wishing to deprave its people to the point where they will accept the most perfidious and rotten acts, abolishes first the concept of God. And in the wake of that, destroys the family with Free Love, the intellectual with police-enforced idiocies, and so reduces a whole population to an estate somewhat below that of dogs.

A man without an abiding faith is, by observation alone, more of a thing than a man. Modern science, producing weapons for the annihilation of men, women and children in the wholesale lots, has solidly run itself aground on the reef of godlessness.

Modern science has gone so far as to advocate the rise of Man from mud and clay alone, has denied to him even a semblance of a soul and so has not only solved none of the problems of the humanities, but has aided and abetted a godless, totalitarian government which seeks nothing less than the engulfment and enslavement of all men and the extinguishment of every spark of decency in the breast of every human being.

These two tracks which have led away from the affirmation of the existence of a Supreme Being (modern science and totalitarianism) are both bringing Man into a machinelike state of being, where the ideal has become a lump of muscle, greasy with sweat, or a grimy mechanic serving a howling monster of steel.

The arts, the humanities and the decencies are fallen away from until they are like tiny stars shining across a great, black void. The abandonment of the admission of a Supreme Being, as a reality intimate to the life of Man, makes prostitution the ideal conduct of a woman, perfidity and betrayal the highest ethic level attainable by a man, and obliteration by treachery, bomb and gun the highest goal attainable by a culture.

Thus, there is no great argument about the reality of the Supreme Being, since one sees in the failure to countenance that reality, a slimy and loathsome trail downward into the most vicious depths.” 

L. Ron Hubbard

countenance: to give or express approval to; to permit or tolerate.

perfidious: treacherous, deceitful.

perfidity: a deliberate act of faithfulness or treachery; deception.

totalitarian: of, relating to, being or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is made subordinate to the state and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed.

Also read: What is Religion?

There are other books where L. Ron Hubbard has a lot more to write. Please see our Scientology Book site. For Scientology courses, please see here.

And L. Ron Hubbard wrote many articles about freedom and a Freedom website is devoted to these.

Also, please see this series of two dozen Frequently Asked Questions regards Scientology, answered by a lay person. Some have good answers on what lies out there after this life, but they are non-official answers. Please note that. One question asked is What is God, Briefly? And here asked is: Where Does God Fit into Scientology?

The book: Science of Survival can also be found here.

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