Anonymous asked this question on 4/27/2000:

What is the Scientology cross?

desertphile gave this response on 4/28/2000:

It is a crossed-out crucifix. Scientology teaches that Jesus Christ did not exist. Listen to Hubbard's CL VIII tape, of which you can also hear on the Internet:

http://home.kvalito.no/~xenu/archive/media_vault/Nochrist.ra

"Anyway, Everyman is then shown to have been crucified so don't think that it's an accident that this crucifixion, they found out that this applied. Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 BC, found some pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it, either by watching madmen or something, but since that time they have used it and it became what is known as Christianity. The man on the Cross. There was no Christ. But the man on the cross is shown as Everyman. So of course each person seeing a crucified man, has an immediate feeling of sympathy for this man. Therefore you get many PCs who says they are Christ. Now, there's two reasons for that, one is the Roman Empire was prone to crucify people, so a person can have been crucified, but in R6 he is shown as crucified." - L. Ron Hubbard

This means that Christ is an "implant" forced upon people by the evil aliens living on Mars and Venus.

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Anonymous rated this answer a 5.

ok he must have been competing with Christianity, right? Sounds like it. Thanks for the answer. I'll go listen to the .ra thing.