Rupert Murdoch calls Scientologists 'creepy' and maybe 'evil'
Source: LA Times
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has put his two cents in on the news that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are getting divorced.
"Watch Katie Holmes & Scientology story. Something creepy, maybe even evil, about these people," Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corp. tweeted Sunday morning.
Murdoch's tweet followed Friday's news that Holmes had filed for divorce from Cruise after five years of marriage.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-rupert-scientologist-0120701,0,419588.story
Pot, meet kettle.
pam4water
(2,916 posts)it takes one to know one.
StopTheNeoCons
(890 posts)Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)Apparently, Murdoch never bothers to look at his own primetime line-up, or he'd realize he had one of those 'creepy' and 'evil' types on his payroll hosting a show.
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)He's well past the point in life when he has to even be civil (and I mean wealth, not age), let alone polite. And for certain sure he doesn't disqualify anyone for being evil. I mean, look at the rest of the Fox lineup.
Murdock is bitch-slapping Scientologists because he can. And this isn't the first time he's unloaded on them.
Thus proving that even the slimiest person on the planet has one or two good traits.
DesertDiamond
(1,616 posts)pam4water
(2,916 posts)took everything I had not to say first post with that
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)Skittles
(153,111 posts)he just loves prying into the private lives of others, doesn't he? he can FUCK HIMSELF
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)Skittles
(153,111 posts)I don't find Scientologists that much nuttier than the average "faithful"
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)If you talk about Xenu and the OT levels, the Church of Scientology will sue and harass you.
Feel free to check out http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology_collected_Operating_Thetan_documents - if you dare - and get back to us on the "nuttier" thing.
Skittles
(153,111 posts)but sanctimonious Christians love banging on my door
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)They let the process server do that if you criticize them.
Anyhow, maybe this isn't "nuttier" than other religions, but it's damn sure not any LESS nutty:
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http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology%27s_%27Operating_Thetan%27_documents_leaked_online
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It is not until 'OT3' when you learn the true beginning of Scientology. In Hubbard's own hand written notes, he begins to describe a series of "76 planets [orbiting] around larger stars founded 95,000,000 years ago" which he says "are visible from here [Earth]."
From those planets, which were over populated by "about 250 million per planet," came a "head of the Galactic Federation" named Xenu who solved the overpopulation by sending mass amounts of his people to Earth somewhere between "75,000,000 and 4 qadrillion [Sic] years ago." Hubbard says that he brought them to Earth and dropped them off inside volcanoes on an island he describes as Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. Xenu then captured the ones who escaped after 36 days and exploded the remaining individuals with a hydrogen bomb. Xenu was later "captured after six years of battle" and Earth had since become a "desert."
It is also said at this level, an implant, in what Hubbard calls an "engram" will be given in which the individual can "see pictures." However these pictures are not to be "stuck" or permanent.
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but please, how is that planet nonsense any sillier than virgin birth and rising from the dead???
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)The whole point comes down to "Is using the legal system and sometimes law enforcement officers to harass your critics immoral?"
Is allowing the death of a disturbed young lady (Lisa McPherson) immoral?
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http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Scientology_cult:_Lisa_McPherson_death_report
"This file has been on the internet for awhile but it is hard to find so that is why it's being posted on Wikileaks. This file is important because this is the actual report done by Scientologists who were in charge of keeping Lisa McPherson in confinement, which is where she died. Search for Lisa McPherson on Google and you will find this document, after much searching. This is being leaked because this is the official Church of Scientology recount of the days leading up to Lisa McPherson's death. Lisa McPherson has been dead for more than 10 years now, but this document is still important, as it gives a glimpse into what she went through."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Lisa_McPherson
Lisa McPherson (February 10, 1959 December 5, 1995) was a member of the Church of Scientology who died of a pulmonary embolism while under the care of the Flag Service Organization (FSO), a branch of the Church of Scientology. Following the report of the state's medical examiner that indicated that Lisa was a victim of negligent homicide, the Church of Scientology was indicted on two felony charges, "abuse and/or neglect of a disabled adult" and "practicing medicine without a license."
The charges against the Church of Scientology were dropped after the state's medical examiner changed the cause of death from "undetermined" to an "accident" on June 13, 2000. A civil suit brought by her family against the Church was settled on May 28, 2004.
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If you can read this and say these are not evil people to put her through this abuse, then I don't know what to say. Are other religions nutty, sometimes evil? Yes. But why does that even matter? The other religions deserve attention, but the Church of $cientology is the focus of this thread.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)bang on our door.
must live in a crazy right wing town..
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)it's a cult. ie the extreme version of any one faith. and it's all about $$
was surprised Rachel Weisz married into one. Wish her luck.. Although Tom Cruise comes off more controlling than Daniel Craig.
Scientology would be the Mel Gibson (catholics) wing of Science Fiction wingnuts.
rdmtimp
(1,586 posts)I've never heard anything about him being CO$.
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)Doesn't constitute prying, in my book.
Unless of course, he's hacked into Holmes' phone while she was talking to her attorney.
No, watching Cruise crash & burn is a sport anyone can enjoy.
Kennah
(14,234 posts)Tabasco_Dave
(1,259 posts)This could be a good show!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)We all win.
teknomanzer
(1,868 posts)The world gains from their loss.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)edbermac
(15,933 posts)Asshole.
SunSeeker
(51,504 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and Murdock and his fellow 1% are given money to Mittens, and they are the ones that have promoting Pres O's religion as bad.... a Christian????
wordpix
(18,652 posts)FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)We might want to dial it back a bit.
http://www.xenu.net/cb-faq.html
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)Hitler, Pol Pot, and Ted Bundy are in a bar in Hell when Dick Cheney walks in.
"Now we're fucked," says Hitler.
The Wizard
(12,532 posts)the christo / fascist propaganda arm for the radical right thinks Scientology is evil but he's OK with a guy who belongs to an organization the subscribes to the notion that god lives on the planet Kolob with his many mistresses. Their scripture diminishes African ancestry claiming dark skinned people are sub human. Pox News is the vomit bag of broadcasting. Murdoch would make Goebbels blush.
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)Sorry, we've been out of that for years.
FLAprogressive
(6,771 posts)Bryan
(1,837 posts)I could really use the laughs.
DBoon
(22,338 posts)He alone is allowed to be creepy and evil.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)If one's enemies are evil, then they must be good?
I don't get it. I don't believe it.
Anyhow, as I have pointed out to others, feel free to do some research. Wikileaks has a substantial archive about them. Operation Clambake, at http://xenu.net has a great deal of information about their history of litigation and harassment.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Murdoch got one thing right in his sad life.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)crunch60
(1,412 posts)FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)Not that he necessarily shouldn't be, but fortunately we cannot say "everyone we don't like should be in prison because I think they should be in prison".
Except for "enemy combatants", of course. Which is a problem. Do we want to make that problem even worse by throwing even more people in prison?
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)the history of the church of Scientology is pretty scary. They're one skull shaped island away from being taken down by James Bond.
Javaman
(62,497 posts)apparently. mr. jumping-on-the-couch has divorced each of his wives when they were 33 years old.
is that some sort of magic space alien number that scifi-ology nuts think important?
Yavin4
(35,420 posts)Ter
(4,281 posts)slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Maybe higher because of his visibility.
I had to repeatedly put unauthorized copies of Dianetics and the study materials for OT3 on Web sites before legal counsel Helena Kobrin could be bothered to send me a nasty "Cease and desist" email.