scientologists are insane

I can't help it. I have to keep railing against the cult. Tom Cruise is making it far, far too easy. And you can't just let him get away with talking this shit...

Cruise: If someone wants to get off drugs, I can help them. If someone wants to learn how to read, I can help them. If someone doesn't want to be a criminal anymore, I can give them tools that can better their life. You have no idea how many people want to know what Scientology is.

SPIEGEL: Do you see it as your job to recruit new followers for Scientology?

Cruise: I'm a helper. For instance, I myself have helped hundreds of people get off drugs. In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It's called Narconon.

SPIEGEL: That's not correct. Yours is never mentioned among the recognized detox programs. Independent experts warn against it because it is rooted in pseudo science.

Cruise: You don't understand what I am saying. It's a statistically proven fact that there is only one successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. Period.

SPIEGEL: With all due respect, we doubt that.

Dummy.

Oh right, "Narconon"... that teaches that drugs remain in your system indefinitely, until you take a lot of vitamins, exercise and then sit in a sauna.

Scientologists believe this even though repeated studies have shown that when drugs remain in your system, they do so in the fat cells IN YOUR BRAIN.

I don't know if somebody has to actually sit Tom Cruise down to explain this to him, but you can't actually burn off brain cells from exercise.

Spiegel interview

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Brooke Shields gets a few kicks in:

Shields Attacks Cruise for Criticizing Her Drug Use

Actress Brooke Shields has lambasted former pal Tom Cruise for criticizing her "misguided" use of drugs to combat her post-natal depression.

Cruise - who claims to have helped people fight drug addictions through his controversial Scientology religion - recently attacked the Suddenly Susan star for becoming dependant on Paxil, following the birth of her daughter Rowan.

But Shields is disgusted by the Top Gun star's "dangerous" comments and took a swipe at his Scientology beliefs, by saying she wouldn't take advice from someone who devotes his life to creatures from outer space. She fumes, "His comments are dangerous. He should stick to saving the world from aliens."

ok, I'm going to stop talking about Tom Cruise, aliens and Brooke Shields now.