Illegal aliens
The news this week of Tom Cruise being banned from filming in Germany because of his being a member of the Church of Scientology made me realize that I had no idea what this so-called religion was all about.
Here's the first summary that I found of the beliefs the Scientologists have:
Scientologists believe that 75 million years ago an evil galactic ruler, named Xenu, solved overpopulation by bringing trillions of people to Earth in DC-8 space planes, stacking them around volcanoes and nuking them. Then the souls of these dead space aliens were captured and boxed up and taken to cinemas where they were shown films of what life should be like, false ideas containing God, the devil and Christ...
After that they supposedly clustered together and now inhabit our bodies. Scientologists believe that if they rid themselves of these body thetans then they will be healthier and will gain special powers like mind-over-matter.
Huh? It's a spoof or satire, right? Only it's not! I can't make this stuff up, but the founder of this religion surely did. He was a science fiction writer and was evidently very adept at thinking up stories with aliens; aliens who live inside us.
The above summary comes from an obviously anti-Scientology site, but there are so many of them. They've made a lot of people mad - the kind of mad that comes from being bilked out of money, I'm guessing. If you have time, read the long version of the story of Xenu at the above site. It's quite entertaining and would make a good summer blockbuster movie.
Earth or bust.
It does stop being amusing for me when I read about how many people have died from refusing modern medicines due to their beliefs in Scientology. And then I found out that my DSL provider Earthlink was founded by two Scientologists who possibly could be funneling corporate profits to this crackpot religious organization.
Damn them. I'm off to make a website.
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