Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and his Purple Heart. Psych!

L. Ron Hubbard's questionable military records isn't breaking news. It does resurface in the recent The New Yorker as Lawrence Wright discusses director Paul Haggis' departure from Scientology in 2009 and why the Church of Scientology is relentless in passing off Walter Mitty's - I mean, Hubbard's military documents as factual when they don't jive with the documents the military has in its possession.

Now, unless you've served in the military or you're running for office or you lie about it on a job application, lying about military service, in the big scheme, isn't a big deal. I mean, it's wrong and I don't condone it, obviously.

However, Hubbard's war service is significant regarding the history of the Church of Scientology and how it relates to Hubbard's set of ideas and practices known as, Dianetics.

So, if Hubbard's military record (the one provided by the Church of Scientology that has Hubbard serving on ships that never existed, awarded medals that never existed and has document signatures of officers who never existed) is very, very - oh my God - vastly different then the one the military provided Lawrence Wright and his five fact-checkers, wouldn't that cast some dispersion on Dianetics and Scientology as an idea and religion?

Click here for one 1999 document comparing and contrasting the Church of Scientology's copy of Hubbard's military record and the military's copy of the military record. Laugh-o-rama!