Notice: Fredric Rice may have removed segments of the replies given to questions if they contained copyrighted materials. After a very short while, Scientology "experts" refused to answer questions and started cut-and-pasting copyrighted cult propaganda. Additionally I removed URLs in some of the replies, and left them in others. And it's also important to note that eventually the unfortunate "Greg Churilov" cultist was ejected from askme.com for his typical Scientological behavior.

Anonymous asked this question on 5/9/2000:

Does anyone know what the difference between the book "Scientology: A new slant on life," written by L. Ron Hubbard, and the book "Scientology": A new slant on life by L. Ron Hubbard" written by the IRS?

honorarykid gave this response on 5/9/2000:

I don't know that the IRS ever wrote parts of "A New Slant on Life" but I do know that several edits of Hubbard's "A New Slant on Life" have appeared over the years. When and by whom they were made is a mystery to me, and probably to a whole lot of other people as well. Some of those people actually care about the book. I, myself do not care about that book. I think it's the worst sort of pro-CoS propaganda, with or without edits by persons unknown.

But perhaps the questioner is really asking a broader question? Are Scientology materials changing following Hubbard's death? Why and by whom?

Apparently, yes changes are being made, subtly and surrepticiously.

The Randy McDonald case that I've referred to in several of my answers documents a new type of policy letter called a Scientology Policy Directive (SPD) which Hubbard's scripture specifically disallowed. McDonald was flabbergasted that Scientology didn't agree with him, finally coming to understand that it was the upper level management who had instututed the new change.

This was the whole crux of McDonalds complaint against Scientology managment, that they had installed a "squirrel" layer of Scientology policy and scripture, without the authority from Hubbard or Hubbard's other scriptures to do so.

Perhaps a healthy, vital, living political entity needs a way to institute new policies and directives, but Scientology holds Hubbard's word to be The Word, like the Bible is the Word of God to a Christian. To Scientologists, having upper level bureaucrats altering Hubbard's words, is not a trivial offense. It is a high crime.

So are Scientologists to know when someone has edited their scriptures? Side by side comparisons seem to be the only way. No one inside Scientology seems to be discussing these changes openly and publicly. But at least one ex-Scientologist, with a pseudonym of "Safe" has done a few side by side comparisons of various tech issues and found several changes. The CoS went after his ISP, to discover his real identity.

I believe Fredric Rice's web site has some of Safe's comparisons or at least the story of how the CoS tried to scare Safe into stop making his comparisons.

http://www.raids.org/sindex.htm

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