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THE RELIGIOUS HERITAGE OF SCIENTOLOGY
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Like many philosophers before him, Socrates’ methods challenged established beliefs. As a result, in 399 B.C. he was convicted of both “denying the gods” and corrupting youth. Sentenced to drink a cup of hemlock, a bitter poison, he chose to die rather than compromise his stand against tyranny and suppression of the truth.
Prejudice and a general deviation from the road to philosophic truth about man sent even the highly learned Greek civilization to an inevitable and untimely end. First conquered by the Roman Empire, its cities were then mercilessly sacked by barbarians.
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