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Join my new religion

If the details are paltry at this embryonic stage, the same could once have been said for Jesus, and the Buddha.

The gist is this. I have decided to start a religion.

If you want to get very rich very quick, but lack the criminal talent to cash in on the absence of a functioning police force, founding a religion is the obvious way.

L Ron Hubbard’s creation of Scientology enabled him to keep both himself and his dear old mum, L Mother Hubbard, in resplendent

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