La La Lou Lou wrote
"I must admit that I'm not in slightest shocked.
That his mother may have been sleeping around, including with other women, was educated and that she had to keep her book of shadows hidden, and the family religion a complete secret is hardly without precedence. Christianity did not fully kill off the old religion, and yes even in those days people experimented in bed. There's a lot of the old religion mixed in with Christianity, the holy and the ivy, the celebrations of Christmas and Easter, these all come from pagan times the rebirth of life one god taking over from another. Hubbard's family left the old country for some reason, to survive better, either because of economics or to feel safer. Many pagan families did. However I do not know your source for this info."
I love the Celtic ways and did Celtic studies. What is called the old religion suffered under the Romans, where they used doges to hunt down the ancient priests and killed them without trial. When Christianity took over from Rome they continued with the same policies of intolerance towards what would be regarded as moderate ecological beliefs today. Christianity or the older form of it, took over Europe by making agreements and then breaking them. They agreed to accept the solstices, the accepted custom of Europeans from the Neolithic or New Stone Age that are still with us as Christmas and Easter. Pagan comes from the Latin word ‘pagasus’ meaning ‘of the country’.
As you say many people moved to America for it gave promise, not so much of a New World, but of the pagan world as it used to be. Did you know that Karl Marx said that 95% of the first immigrants to America were of Celtic descent? I don’t know if you sensed already, but Ron’s red hair was pure ethnic Celtic. Even his grandson Jamie deWolfe shares the same distinctive ethnic type that is becoming a rarity. You can see my problem here, I can swagger into this board and say I got this and that from such and such an authority, but for what it’s worth after years of my own research I’m my own authority. As such I can see things in ways that others may not. When I started Scientology years ago I gained minor fame for second sight, being able to look right through people. Anyway blessings to you.