Saturday 22 September 2007

Scientology

Now, I wouldn't call myself a political comedian, hell I wouldn't even call myself a comedian, but I don't do that sort of thing - doesn't interest me. And I don't take the piss out of religion or peoples beliefs, I take the piss out of things that are funny, and dare I say it, things I don't understand. I don't understand Scientology, I can't put my finger on exactly why, maybe it's this bit:
(The Evil Lord) Xenu is introduced as an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living. Scientologists believe the alien souls continue to do this today, causing a variety of physical ill-effects in modern-day humans.

This was taken from Wikipedia, it did also say "Scientologists have argued that the published accounts of the Xenu story and other teachings are distortions of their practice, presented out of context for the purpose of ridiculing their religion." No shit Sherlock!

Maybe it's that or the quote from Ron L. Hubbard saying "If you want to be rich, invent your own religion"

1 comment:

PAULB said...

Now THERE's an idea!