Political Mavens: "I didn't think it was possible -- but Tom Cruise just made Scientology seem even weirder"

[Out_Of_The_Dark]

I didn't think it was possible -- but Tom Cruise just made Scientology
seem even weirder
By Jonathan Kay (bio)

Scratch the surface of Scientology and you will find a lot of weird
and wild tidbits. To name but a few: The high school science-class
"electro-psychometer" used to probe the bodies of new recruits for
"hidden crimes," the requirement that members are made to pay cash for
their supposed enlightenment, the Buzz Lightyear-like code words
embedded in the mountain of vacuous bureaucratic bafflegab set out by
founder L. Ron Hubbard, the creepy measures used to enforce internal
discipline (presided over -- I am not making this up -- by an "Office of
Special Affairs") and the lurid science-fiction plot line that governs
the religion's mythology at its most esoteric levels -- involving a pan-
Galactic alien ruler named Xenu who summoned billions of humans to our
planet 75 millon years ago and then blew them up with atom bombs ...
after stacking their bodies around volcanoes for some unknown reason.
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