Fill In The Blanks: Start Your Own Religion Today!

With apologies to Mad Libs, Scientologists, and Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master," drop a few words on a ready-made creation story and you can be just as powerful as hack sci-fi author/cult leader, er, spiritual guru L. Ron Hubbard.

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The Master,Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, takes a hard look at the early days of a faith-based organization that sounds a lot like Scientology, which science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard concocted in 1952. How, in 2012, would someone go about amassing followers for a new cult—er, religion? It’s not that hard. Fill in this crazy-ass creation story and you, too, can be a prophet.

This feature appears in Complex's October/November 2012 issue.

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