AS Gawker head Nick Denton notes, the video of Tom Cruise preaching about Scientology has been on the web for a while. It is the Sun’s “Cruise’s oddball cult rant”.
But it has been removed from YouTube.
You can watch it hereunder, for now:
Given that religionists make videos of heads being lopped off, is this so bad? Let’s ask the guys in the white vans…
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January 22nd, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Danielle, where are you on the Bridge To Total Freedom® ?
January 21st, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Also to legalbombshell:
Respect is earned., it is not a right. I do not have to respect Tom Cruise. Does he have value as a human being? Of course. However, I do not have to respect anyone who is so obviously immersed in a crazy cult. I have every right to question his sanity.
Please don’t take my comments as a personal attack. You offered your opinions and I responded with mine. I just found that yours were the only comments that inspired me to comment.
January 21st, 2008 at 2:15 pm
To legalbombshell Says:
The right to speak freely does not come with a side order of the right to be taken seriously. Yes, he has a right to speak his mind about his beliefs and the rest of us have the right to say he is absolutely bonkers. There is no prosecution in that.
January 21st, 2008 at 5:04 am
I agree to the fact that he is passionate about making the world a better place, but what exactly is behind that passion? What drives him do do that? I have have a real beef with scientology because its teaching focus on the individual doing the act. To me, it seems a bit too egocentric. Its this kind of thinking that leans toward power hungry and arrogance. As for the ending of the vid…he is just absolutely loving it
rel:dr:21:01:05.08
January 21st, 2008 at 3:46 am
I am not a scientologist and I am not a journalist, but it is clear to me that this clip was editted to pieces. The start of all the topics he was talking about was cut out so that the rest of the phrases had no context. I imagine that all of us would sound crazy if a video of us talking about intangible things we were passionate about was editted in the same way.
I am a born again Christian, but although Cruise is self-righteous in his attitude, I admire the fact that he genuinely wants to make the world a better place and he is very disciplined about actively making that happen. Yes, you could say that Extremist Terrorists are equally disciplined and passionate about making the world a better place, but he is obviously challenging himself and others to help those in need in tangible ways.
Rather than pointing the finger, laughing and forwarding this video, maybe we should challenge ourselves to see what we can do for our ‘Circle of Influence’ (to quote Stephen Covey from ‘7 habits of Highly Effective People’ )
At the end of the day salvation/enlightenment can’t be based on being a do-gooder or those who are poor and totally paralysed from birth couldn’t be ’saved’ or couldn’t earn as many ’spiritual brownie points.’ I believe salvation is about a beginning a personal relationship with God, who can so extravagantly fill us with Love that we want to share it generously (and not out of guilt/obligation) it with our Circle of Influence and beyond.
Rel.dr:21:01:04.19
January 19th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
wow the end was so fire… hes just laughing and you can see that in his head hes loving himself and his thoughts and visions are playing out over and over, domination of everything ..so hes loving it
January 19th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m out.
January 19th, 2008 at 6:17 am
I have never met a Scientoligist in my 30 years that made any sense at all, the more I listened the more moronic it gets.
40k to do the courses lol oh yes a non profit ‘Church’ Sceintology is not a religion it’s a brainwashing load of rubbish with persons that obviously are so lost they have to ‘follow’ & Sceintologists are famous or preying on the low self esteemed people.
January 19th, 2008 at 12:44 am
I hope he keeps talking - the more he talks, the more people will see how insane this “religion” is.
January 18th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
That was an audition tape for some movie…. right?
Some sort of psycho character on a mission of some sort…..
Right?
January 18th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
He talks so much, yet says so little.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
This is a joke right????? Is he really this crazy?????
January 18th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I know whos I would like to see taken Off, What a wanker! Does he expect anybody to buy this, I think if he want scientolgy to work he should leave the religeon before he does more harm.
January 18th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
i would say people are free to believe what ever they want.
but a batshit insane actor gloating about this pseudoreligion made up by a science fiction writer and set up more like a business that is out to ruin lives for critics, naysayers, and their own followers.
it doesn’t sit well with me.
i could believe that a teacup orbits around saturn, but i’m not going to make a religion out of it.
And hubbard has been quoted saying things like “i want to start a religion, that’s where the money is.”
January 18th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Alright, jmr. You’re a Christian, most of America meshes with your belief system. You realize that not everyone believes what you do, right? You understand that to the rest of the world YOU SOUND LIKE THIS.
January 18th, 2008 at 11:42 am
I couldn`t help thinking there was a bit of David Brent about that rant. Yeah he`s nuts; he laughs at his own private jokes, doesn`t stop talking with that crazy look in his eyes and makes absolutely no sense. The question for me though is: is whatever it is he`s crapping on about any craier than any other religion? They`ll all far fetched, arogant, power crazed, judgmental, lets face it, many of them are money driven. I can`t see how this ones any different, except for the fact that they`ve got some pretty high profile people in PR.
January 18th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Please under all circumstances, do not eat the sleepy time pudding, know matter how delicious.
January 18th, 2008 at 11:07 am
My quetion to him is how he thought he was created. So where does he think came from and where does he think he will return to. Never speaks of God as our Creator and Savior the one and only God. Not this higher power. For us Christians, the bible has been around made years and have survied. And I also read somewhere that the creator of this cult, once belong to a satanic club. So this all makes you think. As for me I know who created me.
jmr
January 18th, 2008 at 10:22 am
How good it is to know poor Tom Cruise is sacrificing himself to save the world for us. Perhaps he is the new Messiah?
January 18th, 2008 at 10:07 am
What is going on with Tom Cruise and his Scientology video? Cocky, arrogant or all-knowing? Taken down from YouTube, see it here.
http://www.webcastr.com/videos/celebs/tom-cruise-now-is-the-time.html
January 18th, 2008 at 6:53 am
People, people…PLEASE…
I know Christians who are JUST as ADAMANT about their faith…he is NO different from all the other folks who are fanatics about their organized religions…so what’s all the fuss about? Last I checked this man has right (as an American) to worship freely ESPECIALLY when we don’t agree with him…**YAWN**
Nankurunaisa.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:16 am
When I watched the interview of his wife Katie on Good Morning America, I was struck by how overly poised and seemingly unnecessarily self-disciplined or purposely controlled. The interview didn’t across easy or particularly comfortable or relaxed. She would carefully control everything she said, how she said it, and provided minimal full smiles and no laughing or relaxing in the moment. Plus I noticed she would look away and not provide good eye contact. I was genuinely taken aback and thought we really didn’t see the true Katie under the whole guise.
Now that I’ve watched this video and came out of it feeling completely empty and sad for the actor, I can see the connection between the person he thinks he is and the wife’s pretense of some superficial sophistication. I can’t bring myself to completely bash them; they know not what they do. Because anyone who thinks they have the enlightened edge over and above those who are not members of their establishment is ironically the lost soul.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:11 am
52 Mary
Agree wholeheartedly! Look what he has done with the two adopted children. Very much like what the exclusive brethren do, but at least Nicole can see them on cam corder. Dreadful set up.
Pitiful to watch though, the video of him. He looks “out of it”. Katie should go, and be gone quick. Take Suri. Good if she is not Tom’s then he has no hold on her. Get away Katie.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:58 am
My grandma had a word for people like Tom Cruise…”Wackado”
January 18th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Run Katie run… take Suri with you…. be afraid..be very afraid….. wacko on your tail…
January 17th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
I feel privledged that I can listen to someone elses beliefs even if i dissagree, we are so blessed in this country to have the rights that we do.
January 17th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
January 17th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Dude…..You need JESUS…….Now
January 17th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Wasn’t it lucky for Tom that over the years, during his continued public quest to prove himself worthy, he found a “religion!” What a hypocrite! His criticisms of others’ uses of crutches, whether medical or psychological, etc. is such a farce. It doesn’t take a rocket scientologist (pun intended) to see how hooked he is on his own drug of choice - adrenalin! He’s about a hairline away from a Britney Breakdown. The only difference is that he found a useful crutch called Scientology AND controls his drug habit through “over the top” behaviors anytime he needs a fix.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
JUST ANOTHER TYPICAL HOLLYWOOD LEFTY NUTCASE FREAK WHOBELIEVES HIS PRESS CLIPPINGS AND YES MEN. DOES HE REALIZE THAT HE IS AN ACTOR AND HIS OPINION ISNT THAT INPORTANT? ANYWAY …WHEN ARE WE GOING TO SEE JESSICA ALBA NAKED?
January 17th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
There’s another vide - here
http://www.anorak.co.uk/celebrities/179513.html