With Tom Cruise so very in the news, it’s time people started to read up a bit on the history of Scientology. As your friend and trusted adviser, I’ve scoured the interweb for the finest “primer” available.

HERE IT IS.

Straight from the New York Times’ archives. Fortunately, the article escaped from the modern day “Operation Snow White,” Scientology’s well-documented effort to remove all critical mention of itself from all global media.

“Scientology’s Puzzling Journey from Tax Rebel to Tax Exempt,” is a fascinating read about, well, a bunch of folks who believe they have ‘power’ and insight. Follow it up with the above link to Snow White, and you’re off to the races.

Now, the fact that they believe that humans were trapped on earth 75 million years ago in chunks of ice, banished by Xenu, ruler of the Galactic Federation (I shit you not) - that doesn’t bother me at all. It’s just as realistic as the other creation myths (check out Mormon founder Smith’s ‘magic crystals’ story), and who knows, it could be true. No, I’m not a nutjob, I’m just saying we can’t dismiss out of hand what we don’t know, no matter how ‘crazy’ it seems. Could be we all live in a bowl of Jello, and are bound any moment for Charlton Heston’s diseased bowels. Could be. No, my questions about Scientology have to do with the organization’s massive amount of criminal deception.

Just because they want to be recognized as a Church doesn’t mean they have to act like one.

If I disappear…ask Tom Cruise about my whereabouts. Heh.

Tags: celebrity, Ruminations

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