I will offer the following statement. I am completely ignorant as to what Scientology is. What I do know involves moronic celebrities and science fiction type elements. I've also heard of L. Ron Hubbard, who is the founder of the following. That is as much as I knew going into last weekend, when I was in Ocean State Job Lot with Lindsay getting some last minute gifts. In the book section, I saw some novels by L. Ron Hubbard. Well one novel really. A science fiction novel. In his list of other works, I saw various other science fiction novels. The flap proclaimed him as one of the most successful and influential science fiction writers of all time.
He makes his living writing science fiction. He founds a religion centrally themed around science fiction. It took me two seconds to deduce that Scientology is nothing more than a very large work of science fiction. A quick reading on wikipedia and you can see quotes from contemporaries stating how Hubbard created this ploy for monetary gain. Is everything you read true? No. But given that it is quite obvious without those quotes, and a cursory check on the matter reveals them says something significant.
I think someone needs to tell this to Tom Cruise, because I hear Katie Holmes is soon to be the vessel for Hubbard's cryogenic frozen sperm. It's mind numbing watching out of touch celebrities with obscene wealth expounding the virtues of that faith. Old women with 8 cats eating cheeto's all day? I expect this from. Middle aged men who read comic's all day and watch star wars all night as well. I Shouldn't be surprised though. Nearly every celebrity put on a pedestal by the masses is undeserving, minus a small minority. Unfortunately, there are even more members of the Church of Celebritology than there are Scientology.
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