Exactly Karl,
If you have not seen it, you really need to see the south park episode where they show exactly (albeit in cartoon form) what these wingnuts believe in.
here is a bried synopsis :
" Scientologists believe that 75 million years ago an evil galactic ruler, named Xenu, solved overpopulation by bringing trillions of people to Earth in DC-8 space planes, stacking them around volcanoes and nuking them. Then the souls of these dead space aliens were captured and boxed up and taken to cinemas where they were shown films of what life should be like, false ideas containing God, the devil and Christ and told to get ill.
After that they supposedly clustered together and now inhabit our bodies. Scientologists believe that if they rid themselves of these body thetans then they will be healthier and will gain special powers like mind-over-matter.
Some Scientologists spend $360,000 for all this."
you just cant make this stuff up...
Heres my brief encounter with them
Back in the early 80's I mail ordered that stupid "self auditing" book by L Ron Hubbard who is their founder of Scientology, hes dead for many years , but anyway. After I received the book kinda scanned it and put it on the shelf next to the prophet Kahlil Gibran book(I was a weird kid, dont ask). So I start to receive these HANDWRITTEN letters from some crazy chick, who was apparatly given my name to try to recruit me. Real deep thinking stuff (to them I guess) I was not desperate for dates ,so I ignored her and the letters. In retrospect I should have responded and really had some fun with her, but I had better things to do. These letters kept coming for over a year, about half dozen of them, LONG letters all hadwritten asking me to respond for more enlightenment of some kind.
IT still ascares me to this day.
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