The Subject line of this post was a time cover story by Richard Behar: Scientology: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power. Behar was sued for the story but Scientology lost on all counts. The story is from 1991. Scientology is still behaving in the same underhanded way (but as one of their spokespeople publicly stated, they're not a 'turn the other cheek' religion).
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About 10 years ago there was a television series called "Millenium". It starred Lance Hendricks as Frank Black. In one episode, and it was the only real comedic episode that show ever had, the plot centered around two members of a cult that was obviously based on scientology, went around killing people who exposed the absurdity of their cult. Anyway, the best line in the program went something like this:
Frank Black's supervisor calls Frank aside and asks him why the Millennium Group got involved. Frank mentions the name of the cult (the one the episode used, not the word 'Scientology') and Frank's supervisor takes a step away and say, 'Oh no, we can't do that.' Frank asks, 'Why? The Millennium Group never walks away from everything, even Evil Incarnate.' Frank's supervisor says, 'Yeah but Evil Incarnate can't sue you into the ground."
Oh yeah, and L.Ron Hubbard wrote really bad science fiction too.
Heh, heh. You certainly have that correct. Mind you, I purchased John Travolta's homage to L.Ron Hubbard, 'Battlefield Earth', at a deep, deep discount, in order to laugh at a film that makes people view his book in an even dimmer light. If you ever need a laugh at bad, bad film-making rent this film. If this is homage what can you say about the object of the homage? :)
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