You know, if you are going to make a new religion because all other religions have "kooky" traditions based on that person's reasoning, why in the heck would you make a new religion that contained many more kooky traditions?
I mean, please tell me how not having motherly contact is beneficial. Is there some basis for this retarded belief or did L. Ron Hubbard just pull a bunch of "beliefs" out of a hat to see how many suckers he could get as some kind of sick experiment?
In a nutsell, yes. It was more about the money. He discovered that there were millions upon millions of dollars to be made in "religion". I suppose he felt like quite the puppet-master. Ick.