Source please?
“Source please?”
there have been a number of excellent books by former, high-ranking Scientologists exposing all of this as well as websites for ex-members, but one of the very best and most comprehensive exposes is this HBO documentary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Clear_%28film%29
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4257858/
https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/going-clear
Hubbard’s wife-beating and alcoholism at the time he invented Scientology is well-documented. Hubbard himself also said early on that the only way to make any real money was to fund a religion. At this time, the “church” is estimated to have only about 50,000 members world wide, yet has a real-estate portfolio worth about 3 billion dollars.
Scientology is no longer even a viable fake religion, but is instead now little more than a tax-free real-estate holding company.