Tom Cruise Goebbels An Ology In Science
SCIENTOLOGY is, of course, not a real religion, merely a joke on Tom Cruise that has gotten out of hand.
The first recorded mention of Scientology was when Beattie (Maureen Lipman) became agitated that her grandson had got an ‘ology’ in science.
Had Tom Cruise not been watching TV at that moment on that day, Scientology would have been consigned to the dustbin of advertising history, along with the Smash Robots, Buzby and Ted Moult.
Show Me The Ology
But Tom was watching. And we fast forward to the present day where Tom Cruise is a famous Scientologist and being laughed at and ridiculed by millions.
Scientology is not a religion, of course. Real religions demand subservience, for the supplicants to hand over money and be selfless and unquestioning in their dedication to other beings and the Big Book.
Scientologists are just required to watch a film. And the film is proving to be a hit in Germany, where tabloid newspaper Bild published comments by World War II historian Guido Knopp likening Cruise’s speech to propaganda delivered by Goebbels in Nazi Germany.
Says Knopp: “It may be the case that Cruise’s delivery style is not uncommon in certain religious movements in the U.S. But for Germans with an interest in history, that scene where he asks whether the Scientologists should clean up the world and everyone shouts ‘yes’ is inevitably reminiscent of Goebbels’ notorious speech.”
Asks Goebbels: “Do you want total war?” And the crowd yells back: “Show me the money!”
Ein Gross Deal
In response, the Church of Scientology has accused Bild of being “grossly irresponsible” for publishing Knopp’s claims.
Karin Pouw, the church’s public affairs director, says: “Bild am Sonntag is grossly irresponsible for publishing horrendous and disgraceful claims about Mr Cruise…
“In doing so, he was urging other people to become involved in similar humanitarian activities to the betterment of all. Anyone who knows Mr Cruise knows that he does not have a prejudicial bone in his body and that, unlike Bild am Sonntag and other German anti-religionists, he does not discriminate against any other religion, race or colour.”
But he does have an ‘ology’…
Posted: 22nd, January 2008 | In: Celebrities, Tom Cruise Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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January 27th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I am amused by the comments of the drooler $cientologist-apologists here.
Too bad you weren’t there to help “Mr.” Cruise as he struggled with his syntax problems in making the laughable video. Or, indeed, too bad you nor your cult can ‘cure’ him of his dyslexia. Are one of you involved in assisting the Teeny One in memorizing his scripts ? It’s well known that he can’t read…his obvious lack of communication skills when ‘winging it’ shows his dyslexia and a bit of bipolar symptomology, as well.
The jig is up on you frauds - just go and mix your KoolAid quietly.
Tiny Tom will undoubtedly use toinight’s SAG Awards speech as the announcement of the taking of the KoolAid - I look forward to it !
aw1715
January 24th, 2008 at 7:41 am
Dear Mr. Dobbs:
Please look up “satire,” “irony” and “sarcasm” in a good dictionary.
It will be most helpful in staying on the same page as the rest of the literate world.
ttfn,
Pierce
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:07 am
In a few years when we’re all diagnosed as mentally ill and drugged out of our minds maybe
someone (if they’re not too intoxicated by” legal” drugs) will wish that people had realized what was happening in two thousand and eight
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:57 pm
” hundreds of signed personal attestations by fire-fighters and emergency medical technicians”
These attestations only exist in the rhetoric of scinetologists.
“help those war-mongering firefighters”
That’s why this cult is scary, the members say some insane things.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Fascinating.
I had always thought that Scientologists had a sound grasp of market economics and would not waste expenditure on a project unlikely to provide worthwhile financial returns.
So why are they harassing Anorak?
And why don’t they buy a dictionary?
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Congratulations! Anorak really hit the thumb on the nail this time.
Cruise is culpable for not only having and stating personal convictions based on first-hand observations of Scientology, but also for not taking his Weltanschauung from Predigested Pabulum Media, Ltd., where the rest of us go daily to suckle and mentally photocopy our intellectual nourishment.
Further, Cruise showed personal financial irresponsibility by donating a million or so of those detestable American dollars to starting a detox clinic in New York to help those war-mongering firefighters who ran into the flames and smoke of the World Trade Center on 9/11, allegedly to save civilians.
Nor can we believe the hundreds of signed personal attestations by fire-fighters and emergency medical technicians who have completed said detox program. After all, once you give him or her back the ability to breathe, to sleep well, walk more than 50 feet without gasping, relate intimately again to his spouse–why that person will just say anything to suck others in his predicament into a treatment plan that has the undisclosed danger of helping others feel better and get a renewed life.
What shameless people!
Anorak, we are pleased you dove so deeply into the depths of this story. And yet you were able to come up dry.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
‘Anyone who knows Mr Cruise knows that he does not have a prejudicial bone in his body’
nor, presumably, a dictionary…
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Mr. Knopp’s knee-jerk evaluation of Mr. Cruise is so psychiatric; so “reminiscent” of the psychiatric evaluations so beloved by the closet Nazis in Germany still dreaming of what could have been, while the broad productive population of Germany dozes unaware of their Nietzscheian dream.
Yes, these relics of Nazism dream of the days when evaluations of one’s fitness was swift and deadly. Today it is no different for these evil folk: swift, maniacal evaluations are done with skimpy or no information (squirming school children diagnosed “developmentally handicapped” over the phone, thank you. Just like “useless bread gobblers’ under the “Mental Hygiene” programs were judged unfit by German psychiatrists and given a one-way ticket to psychiatric heaven.
By the way, no empirical evidence was ever offered for the “useless bread gobbler” diagnosis. Just like today, these psychiatric folks are happy to be ever at the ready to act the self-righteous behind a mask of deceit as in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. There, about 375 “mental diseases,” all with made-up names and for which not a shred of empirical evidence exists, but for which a plethora of potent and dangerous drugs are readily prescribed.
Mr. Knopp presents himself as an academic after the intense research of viewing a video clip of Mr. Cruise accepting an award for his good deeds at a private awards ceremony in honor of his contributions to his Church. Mr. Knopp, with that paucity of information, makes astonishing statements (his own propaganda).
Please Mr. Knopp, Mr. Cruise is devoted to a legal, bona-fide, non-profit religion (recognized in law-abiding countries) that eschews the harming of the spirit by those who profit so un-Hippocratically by the mass marketing of narcotics as pharmaceuticals with deleterious effects upon the spirit.
The psychiatric/Big Pharma industry resides in your country, Mr. Knopp. Indeed modern psychiatry was born in Leipzig, and it’s the very same “profession” that willingly helped solve “The Jewish Problem” through torture, medical experimentation and attempted extermination.
Now you are talking true Nazi, Mr. Knopp. The extent of psychiatry’s collusion with Big Pharma is well known. Please turn the bright light of your “academic” prowess on the warrens of those would-be “Supermen” hell-bent on re-living a Third Reich for a thousand years in which they can deny Human Rights to anyone they wish to. All they need to is ask you for your diagnosis and publish it with a good dose of smearing and character assassination gratis.
For God’s sake Mr. Knopp put your academic hat squarely on and get your facts straight. And your academic integrity could use some polishing up while you’re at it.