FREEDOM'S HUMANITARIAN ORIGINS

The humanitarian contributions and world view of L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion, have inspired Freedom from its very inception. His many articles in the magazine’s early years, covering a broad range of human rights issues, have awakened millions across the globe to the need for effective measures to improve society.

Between the mid-1960s and early 1980s, and following from a greater geopolitical study of what most plagues this world, Mr. Hubbard authored an extraordinary series of Freedom essays on “cultural inadequacies” of the late twentieth century.

Virtually every aspect of our social, political and economic existence was addressed: forms of government, questions of individual liberty, the structure of monetary systems and the preservation of human rights.

That the founder of Scientology would provide these essays is consistent with his view of the church as a traditional force for freedom and decency. As he explained in an early Freedom essay, if there is a “fruitful source of suppression loose upon the world and if it makes people unhappy, then it is a legitimate field for comment in Scientology.”

Freedom today is a reflection of Mr. Hubbard’s humanity, for here is not merely another analysis—or even condemnation—of repression and inequity, but a perspective from which one can sensibly examine a deeply troubled world and rise to the challenge with genuine answers.

Thus, Freedom's philosophy—and chief mission—in sounding the call for social change at the onset of this third millennium.