Tuesday, April 17, 2007
John Travolta: Nutbucket
John Travolta says he's as big a star as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. What's kept Mr. Travolta from becoming a dead celebrity, a la Presley and Monroe? Scientology, of course!
"I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about [Scientology], but often they don't know what they're talking about. I would advise anyone who wants to know about it to read up on it. We are only getting bigger and we help people all over the world, from disaster zones to drug rehabilitation."
Those who really want to know what Scientology's all about should check out Operation Clambake. OC will set you straight 'bout John Travolta's "religion." A sample:
"The Church of Scientology is a vicious and dangerous cult that masquerades as a religion. Its purpose is to make money. It practices a variety of mind-control techniques on people lured into its midst to gain control over their money and their lives. Its aim is to take from them every penny that they have and can ever borrow and to also enslave them to further its wicked ends.
"It was started in the 1950s by a science fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard in fulfilment to his declared aim to start a religion to make money [see below]. It is an offshoot to a method of psychotherapy he concocted from various sources which he named 'Dianetics.' Dianetics is a form of regression therapy. It was then further expanded to appear more like a religion in order to enjoy tax benefits. He called it 'Scientology.'
"Scientology is a confused concoction of crackpot, dangerously applied psychotherapy, oversimplified, idiotic and inapplicable rules and ideas and science-fiction drivel that is presented to its members (at the 'advanced' levels) as profound spiritual truth."
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
-- Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, Reader's Digest, May 1980
"I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about [Scientology], but often they don't know what they're talking about. I would advise anyone who wants to know about it to read up on it. We are only getting bigger and we help people all over the world, from disaster zones to drug rehabilitation."
Those who really want to know what Scientology's all about should check out Operation Clambake. OC will set you straight 'bout John Travolta's "religion." A sample:
"The Church of Scientology is a vicious and dangerous cult that masquerades as a religion. Its purpose is to make money. It practices a variety of mind-control techniques on people lured into its midst to gain control over their money and their lives. Its aim is to take from them every penny that they have and can ever borrow and to also enslave them to further its wicked ends.
"It was started in the 1950s by a science fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard in fulfilment to his declared aim to start a religion to make money [see below]. It is an offshoot to a method of psychotherapy he concocted from various sources which he named 'Dianetics.' Dianetics is a form of regression therapy. It was then further expanded to appear more like a religion in order to enjoy tax benefits. He called it 'Scientology.'
"Scientology is a confused concoction of crackpot, dangerously applied psychotherapy, oversimplified, idiotic and inapplicable rules and ideas and science-fiction drivel that is presented to its members (at the 'advanced' levels) as profound spiritual truth."
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
-- Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, Reader's Digest, May 1980
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Tuesday, April 17, 2007 
