From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: A Silly Question
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Date: 7 Aug 91 20:51:49 GMT
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In article <86269@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v026ltr5@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>Deep down, I'm hoping all of this is one big joke. Are
>there people out there who actually take this stuff
>seriously? Do people really believe in Scientology?
Sorry, but this isn't a joke. :-( ;-)  I do indeed believe in at least
most of the basics.  

>but how many other people can keep writing books 
>years after their death...
It was my understanding that the infamous dekology was written *before*
he died, and was merely released post-humously... Lotsa people do that,
eh? H. Beam Piper, Heinline, etc.  Did anyone ever say otherwise?

>{ "For God so loved the world that He gave | Matthew P. Mason        }
>{ His only begotten Son, that whosoever    | SUNY Buffalo Law School }
>{ believeth in Him should not perish, but  | v026ltr5@ubvms.bitnet   }
>{ have everlasting life" John 3:16         | *** I'M AN UNCLE ***    }
I could give you a really neat-o explaination on that Bible quote...
>:-) (Or at least the last half of it.)

--Elizabeth
Disclaimer: I am but human, not even Clear, and my word is not All.
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