Tom Cruise vs South Park
Jon and Dale over at QandO take on the wacky cult of Scientology, and the fact Tom Cruise is blocking the rebroadcast of the "Trapped in the Closet" episode of South Park, and will refuse to promote Mission Impossible 3 if it is reaired. Also, why is Issac Hayes stepping down as Chef, due "intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs"? I'm thining it must have to do with his religion, which you guessed right, is Scientology. I'm going to say that Issac Hayes is one of the biggest hypocrites on the planet since nearly every South Park episode parodies religion, and the "Superfriends" episode parodied nearly every religion, including Islam. Did Muslims try and stop the episode? What about the Mormans in the episode about Joseph Smith? According to Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of South Park, Issac Hayes had no problem cashing his checks when they offended other religions. So why is scientology different? Because, I think Tom Cruise and Issac Hayes are afraid that people will see the episode and check their website out, like I did, and realize what it really is, a *gasp* cult. A cult that established itself in Hollywood in order to suck the money and power out of the spirtually bankrupt self-loathing "elites" that are constantly trying to make themselves feel important.
Jon also mentions an interview with Der Spiegel where Tom Cruise completely fabricates facts about the cult's drug rehab program. This is rather disturbing, not only are they a cult, but a cult that prevents people from using or seeking well established evidence based clinical drugs. Orac over at Respectful Insolence, deals with these sorts of denialists all the time, mostly in the alternative medicine or "altie" crowd. There's almost no difference between the "alties" and the Scientologists in their arguments against medicine. I challenge Scientology to sponsor double blind clinical trials using their methods for treating mental illness and drug rehabilitation against a placebo, and then compare these to conventional medicine. If they do I'll set my e-meter to stunned.
UPDATE: Via Andrew Sullivan
"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu."
Could these guys kick any more ass? They know they can't beat Viacom, so they do more Scientology mocking, the sad part is if you speak Scientology this probably makes a lot of sense, and isn't really all that funny. I think Tom Cruise's time as a serious actor is over, whenever you start threatening shows that disagree with your viewpoints, you've pretty much hung it up. He should go back and hide in the closet.
Jon and Dale over at QandO take on the wacky cult of Scientology, and the fact Tom Cruise is blocking the rebroadcast of the "Trapped in the Closet" episode of South Park, and will refuse to promote Mission Impossible 3 if it is reaired. Also, why is Issac Hayes stepping down as Chef, due "intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs"? I'm thining it must have to do with his religion, which you guessed right, is Scientology. I'm going to say that Issac Hayes is one of the biggest hypocrites on the planet since nearly every South Park episode parodies religion, and the "Superfriends" episode parodied nearly every religion, including Islam. Did Muslims try and stop the episode? What about the Mormans in the episode about Joseph Smith? According to Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of South Park, Issac Hayes had no problem cashing his checks when they offended other religions. So why is scientology different? Because, I think Tom Cruise and Issac Hayes are afraid that people will see the episode and check their website out, like I did, and realize what it really is, a *gasp* cult. A cult that established itself in Hollywood in order to suck the money and power out of the spirtually bankrupt self-loathing "elites" that are constantly trying to make themselves feel important.
Jon also mentions an interview with Der Spiegel where Tom Cruise completely fabricates facts about the cult's drug rehab program. This is rather disturbing, not only are they a cult, but a cult that prevents people from using or seeking well established evidence based clinical drugs. Orac over at Respectful Insolence, deals with these sorts of denialists all the time, mostly in the alternative medicine or "altie" crowd. There's almost no difference between the "alties" and the Scientologists in their arguments against medicine. I challenge Scientology to sponsor double blind clinical trials using their methods for treating mental illness and drug rehabilitation against a placebo, and then compare these to conventional medicine. If they do I'll set my e-meter to stunned.
UPDATE: Via Andrew Sullivan
"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu."
Could these guys kick any more ass? They know they can't beat Viacom, so they do more Scientology mocking, the sad part is if you speak Scientology this probably makes a lot of sense, and isn't really all that funny. I think Tom Cruise's time as a serious actor is over, whenever you start threatening shows that disagree with your viewpoints, you've pretty much hung it up. He should go back and hide in the closet.
posted by JD at 9:31 PM
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