Putting A Whole New Spin On The Phrase "Go To Hell!"

Joseph Smith got his start conning people, in the "Burned Over" region of New York, but that's not the only educational dead zone in America:

Hubbard's Scientology is based on revelations by the science-fiction author that can't be made odder by embellishment: 

Mental problems, for instance, often are caused by traumatic memories of past lives as clams, sloths, and cave people. 

You couldn't make this stuff up. But L. Ron Hubbard did — right here in Phoenix in the early 1950s.

I swear, the connections between the cult of Scientology and Mormonism are amazing,….