“I have a lot of respect for L. Ron Hubbard and I consider him to be a genius and perhaps less acknowledged than he ought to be.”

— Werner Erhard

[James R. Lewis, 2001, w:James R. Lewis, Odd Gods: New Religions and the Cult Controversy, Amherst, New York, Prometheus Books, 382-387, 1573928429]
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