Hubbard : Christianity the First Religion of hate

TRANSCRIPT : You, for instance, today sit here with a Constitution which guarantees religious freedom but, by golly, what would happen to you if you started to worship Baal ? Man ! How that would ring in the tabloids. If you started to worship Lucifer, if you started to worship any of the various gods. One fellow, Aleister Crowley, uh, picked up a level of religious worship which is very interesting, oh boy ! The press played hockey with his head for his whole lifetime. "The Great Beast," "666." He just had another level of religious worship.

Yes, sir. You’re free to worship everything under the Constitution so long as it’s Christian. Don’t become Mohammedan. Nobody will come around and shoot you because you’re a Mohammedan, but don’t try to start Mohammedan churches. You’ll be discouraged very definitely.

As such, the freedom which man is guaranteed in the English-speaking world today is really not as wide as the freedom which he had as a Roman. Of course, part of that freedom was if he got too badly off and too far into debt and unable to protect himself and if his friends all deserted him, he could be sold into slavery. Or soldiers taken in combat could be sold into slavery. They did not take these soldiers in combat and put them in a stockade and make them work for farmers (there’s no slavery in the modern world). Uh, there’s no slave camps in Russia. Slavery’s dead. Uh, what they do is, is, is, is, they get these fellows on a "want and an inhibit" and on an "enforce and inhibit" cycle and say, You get your Saturday paycheck if you worship at the right time clock. That’s the god of the modern society : The time clock. He has a face the same shape as the dollar.

And, uh, your society in Rome, then, suddenly denied itself. There was a race which was teaching certain doctrines, Christians, unwanted, uh, unwanted gentiles, came into the Hebrew countryside and studied that religion and took it back out into the world. And, uh, the people in those areas around Jerusalem and so on, didn’t have a pioneer spirit with this world with this, they disowned these people, but these people still went out and preached this. And it had an interesting ingredient in it that no other religion up to the time had had in it. And Rome was unable to understand this. And that ingredient was hate. It’s perfectly all right, it, it, it, its, uh, another thing to have in a religion. It’s neither bad nor good. These people were not trying to do a messianic job on the rest of the world, but gentiles used to come in there, and they’d join the church and then they’d go back to Con- well, Constantinople didn’t exist then, well, but go back to other places and start beating the drum for this new religion. That was before Christ.

And then this legend of Christ came along and people really started to beat the drum. Again the Hebrew didn’t keep this rolling, this people rolled in there and picked up this legend out of the rich legends of the Hebrew races and out she went, ha-wham ! And people went mad on this. They spun, they went up and down the pole like so many firemen at a five-alarm fire. They were beautiful condition. They’d rush into Roman Courts and say, Okay, here I am ! Execute me ! The Roman judge would say, Well, really ! Now after all. Can’t we just take this under advisement ? And they kept getting justice and they didn’t want justice ; they wanted blood, death and murder. They wanted to be a martyr !

Oh, that’s a fascinating chapter and Rome finally said, We’re so damn tired of this that hereinafter aforesaid Christianity is not going to be accepted by the Roman Empire, and what do you know crash ! Down came the Roman Empire denied itself. It denied its principles and freedom and had begun to inhibit something. It had inhibited, inhibited God in one respect or another and down she went. Interesting, it, you know that empire still kept going for another 800 years under various guises, but it certainly went up and down after a while. In the year five hundred and something A.D., the total population of Rome consisted of two wolves walking in the ruins of the Forum. Right back, the cycle had turned all the way.

And we had this, then, as a descending spiral. And the reason I’m punching all this stuff up, I’m demonstrating something on a national, or Third Dynamic, level. It came back to this line-up : Here you had a philosophy injected which first entered with a desire, became an enforcement and an inhibition, and the first moment somebody had agreed, agreed on the level of inhibition it died. And the first time there gets to be a heavy inhibition in any line, a thing dies because that inhibition level is, itself, death.