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PHOTO CAPTION: Founding Church of Scientology, Washington, D.C., established at 1812 19th St NW July 4, 1955, by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard.<\/em><\/p>\n
Located at\u00a01812 19th St NW, just over a mile from the White House, it was from his office on the second floor that Mr. Hubbard served as Executive Director and coordinated its activities and churches on five continents.<\/p>\n
In dedicating the Church of Scientology National Affairs Office in Washington, D.C<\/a>. in 2012, Mr. David Miscavige, ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion, highlighted \u201cfreedom\u201d as essential element in Scientology Scripture and made it clear that Mr. Hubbard selected that date and location for inaugurating the new international headquarters quite deliberately. \u201cJust as this nation was founded upon the principles of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, so too those principles are woven into the very fabric of our Scripture,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Mr. Miscavige pointed out that the ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, whose adoption is celebrated on Independence Day, are incorporated in the Creed of the Church of Scientology, published in 1954. The Creed affirms:<\/p>\n That all men of whatever race, color or creed were created with equal rights.<\/em><\/p>\n That all men have inalienable rights to their own religious practices and their performance.<\/em><\/p>\n That all men have inalienable rights to their own defense.<\/em><\/p>\n That all men have inalienable rights to conceive, choose, assist or support their own organizations, churches and governments.<\/em><\/p>\n That all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.<\/em><\/p>\n And that no agency less than God has the power to suspend or set aside these rights, overtly or covertly.<\/em><\/p>\n The full text of the Creed is available in a video on the\u00a0Scientology Network<\/a>, as is a three-part series chronicling in Mr. Hubbard\u2019s own voice,\u00a0his life and discoveries<\/a>.<\/p>\n In an essay published in August 1954, L. Ron Hubbard wrote:<\/p>\n \u201cWe are extending to you the precious gift of freedom and immortality\u2014factually, honestly.<\/p>\n \u201cYou are a spirit. You are your own soul. You are not mortal. You can be free.\u201d<\/p>\n In that same essay, he credits America with having\u00a0\u201ckept wide the doorway\u201d for this accomplishment \u201cby retaining religious freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n To learn more about L. Ron Hubbard and the Scientology religion, visit the Scientology website or learn about the beliefs and practices of the religion on the Scientology Network. Broadcast from\u00a0Scientology Media Productions<\/a>, the Church\u2019s global media center in Los Angeles, the Scientology Network is available on DIRECTV Channel 320 and can be streamed at\u00a0Scientology.tv<\/a>, on\u00a0mobile apps<\/a>\u00a0and via the Roku, Amazon Fire, and Apple TV platforms.<\/p>\n
![https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/21-0706s2p-cos-washdc-300dpi.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n*Caption: Founding Church of Scientology, Washington, D.C., established at 1812 19th St NW July 4, 1955, by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 6, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Established July 4, by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard, the Founding Church of Scientology in Washington, D.C., holds a unique place in the history of the Scientology religion. It was inaugurated blocks from the White House and served as the first fully formed center of Scientology training and religious counseling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8949,"featured_media":73211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[608,12804,1,10,187],"tags":[16429,16430,15916],"class_list":["post-73225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion-news","category-ap","category-business-news","category-california-news","category-los-angeles-news","tag-l-ron-hubbard","tag-mr-david-miscavige","tag-scientology-network","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":3785,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/21-0706s2p-cos-washdc-300dpi.jpg\"){kind=link}