Leave Churchill out of Scientology, says family

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/leave-churchill-out-of-scientology-says-family-1830518.html

Images of Britain's wartime leader are being used in recruiting posters

By Guy Adams in Los Angeles

Sunday, 29 November 2009

Fight them on the beaches if you will. But the descendants of Sir Winston Churchill have decided that a more effective way to prevent the Church of Scientology from hijacking the memory of Britain's wartime leader involves stern cease-and-desist letters and the threat of a costly PR battle.

In an unlikely dispute that pits Sir Winston's grandchildren against followers of the late L Ron Hubbard – the science-fiction writer who believed, among other things, that mankind descended from aliens who arrived on Earth via spaceships – the controversial church has been asked to remove Churchill's image and quotations from its fundraising literature.

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1. Factual error -- Hubbard did not believe these things, he only preached them.

He knew perfectly well they weren't true, since he invented the whole thing on a bet.