Southpark vs. Scientology

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"South Park" has declared war on Scientology. Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of the animated satire, are digging in against the celebrity-endorsed religion after a controversial episode mocking outspoken Scientologist Tom Cruise was yanked abruptly from the schedule Wednesday with an Internet report saying it was covert warfare by Cruise that led to its departure.

"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!" the "South Park" creators said in a statement Friday in Daily Variety. "Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies... You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail!"

The Internet blogger hollywoodinterrupted.com said Thursday that Cruise threatened to not promote "Mission: Impossible 3," a surefire summer blockbuster, if the offending episode ran. Comedy Central is owned by Viacom, as is Paramount, which is putting out the film.

But Cruise's representative, Arnold Robinson, told The Associated Press Friday that the mega-star made no such demands.

"Not true," Robinson said. "I can tell you that he never said that."

A call by The Associated Press to a Paramount representative was not returned Friday.

The episode in question, "Trapped in the Closet," which first aired last November, shows Scientology leaders hailing Stan, one of the show's four devilish fourth-graders, as a savior. A cartoon Cruise locks himself in a closet and won't come out. An animated John Travolta, another famous Scientologist, enters the closet to try to get him out.

The battle began in earnest earlier this week when Isaac Hayes, another celebrity Scientologist and longtime show member voicing the ladies' man Chef quit the show, saying he could no longer tolerate its religious "intolerance and bigotry."

Stone and Parker didn't buy that either.

On Monday, Stone told The Associated Press, "This is 100 percent having to do with his faith in Scientology...He has no problem and he's cashed plenty of checks with our show making fun of Christians."

A Comedy Central spokesman said Friday that the network pulled the controversial episode to make room for two shows featuring Hayes.

"In light of the events of earlier this week, we wanted to give Chef an appropriate tribute by airing two episodes he is most known for," the spokesman said.
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Link: http://tv.yahoo.com/news/ap/20060317/114265290000.html

If you haven't seen that episode, heres part of it: http://www.dumpalink.com/media/1137581947/South_Park_Come_Out_Of_The_Closet

"So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!"

:LOL:
 
Isaac said on Opie and Anthony that he didn't mind the scientology episode...

Oh well, he's an ass
 
Scientology is evil, would ellaborate more but am still ill.
 
Scientology keeps its celebrity mascots on a short leash.

Basically, they get all sorts of luxury for being scientologist, don't need to go through the strange stuff normal inductees do, but are obligated to serve the cause.
 
I'm almost convinced Scientology is some kind of new world order organization. Minus the Cabal Zionist NWO Jews.
 
"The best way to make money is to start your own religion" <- Guy who formed Scientology. :| :| :|

Edit - It wouldn't be so bad if Tom and gang were just doing it for money / fame / other personal goals, but they actually BELIEVE this shit.
 
I just find it ridiculous because they're accusing South Park of crossing the line. Apparently they didn't cross the line when they ridiculed Christianity (see almost anything involving the town priest/God/heaven). Nor when they've reamed out the Jewish people, Jewish religion, or even had Cartman make Holocaust jokes. And they certainly didn't do it when they devoted an episode to the insanity of Mormanism.

So what the heck makes Scientology so special?
 
Direwolf said:
I just find it ridiculous because they're accusing South Park of crossing the line. Apparently they didn't cross the line when they ridiculed Christianity (see almost anything involving the town priest/God/heaven). Nor when they've reamed out the Jewish people, Jewish religion, or even had Cartman make Holocaust jokes. And they certainly didn't do it when they devoted an episode to the insanity of Mormanism.

So what the heck makes Scientology so special?
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Apparently its backed by Hollywood.

See info on the current issues of HDTV and DRM to realize that Hollywood is evil and seems to have more clout and power than any religion.
 
Direwolf said:
So what the heck makes Scientology so special?
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Christians, Jews, Mormans won't send a hitman or two out to kill you if you insult their religion... scientoligists will.
 
maximus otter said:
Is the Isaac Hayes who said:

“There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.”

... the same Isaac Hayes who once said:

"One thing about Matt and Trey, they lampoon everybody. And if you take that shit serious, then I’ll sell you the Brooklyn Bridge for two dollars. That’s what they do."

Enquiring minds want to know.

"Well, after all, it's one thing to mock Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Catholics, Evangelicals, blacks, gays, whites, Mexicans, Asians, Canadians, Frenchmen, people with birth defects, women, transsexuals, Democrats, Republicans, lawyers, cops, cows, people with red hair and freckles, goths, the handicapped and fat kids. But satirizing Scientology--that's just intolerant!"

James Taranto

http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110008088

maximus otter
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"In ten years and over 150 episodes of 'South Park,' Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslim, Mormons or Jews," Stone said in a statement issued by the Comedy Central network. "He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show."
 
Funny? Flying Spaghetti Monster is quite serious o__o. Don't anger him. You don't want to anger a God like that...
 
I think it was brillaint how Parker and Stone decided to depict what scientologists actually believe.

Considering that the Scientologists never tell you about Xenu and Body Thetans in their advertisments to potential new believers. They sucker you in with something that sounds like a normal religion and a cotempt for mood altering medicines. Only after they've leeched you of a lot of your money do they start telling you of all the crazy shit. By this point you have probably already been brainwashed by their wacko cult into thinking all that crap about thetans and e meters is true..

By telling people the core of their beliefs up front with no pretensions, a lot of gullible people that may have become scientologists would probably not become scientologists.
 
People doubt Parker and Stone, thinking them of only being good for all fart jokes and toilet humor, but those guys possess a lot of knowledge. I mean Parker spent a year living in Japan.
The point being is, these guys usually know what they're talking about. Look at the Mormon episode. They did their research.
 
Bullshit, basically

Scientology is proof that if you lie hard enough, talk to enough gullible people, and toss some money into the mix to get some forward momentum, you can start just about anything
 
I hate scientology with a passion. It's the Hitler of religions >:0
 
lol one of the only relgions with one central, official, site!

http://www.scientology.org/

Funny, it mentions none of the "Xenu" stuff, guess they worry it might turn away some possible converts.

Operating Thetan levels and the Xenu incident

The "Hidden Truth" about the nature of the universe is taught to only the most advanced Scientologists, those who have achieved the level "clear", in a series of courses known as the Advanced Levels. The contents of these courses are held in strict confidence within Scientology. They have never been published by the Church, except for use in highly secure areas. The most advanced of all are the eight Operating Thetan levels, which require the initiate to be thoroughly prepared. The highest level, OT VIII, is only disclosed at sea, on the Scientology cruise ship Freewinds. Because Scientology is a mystery religion, the more closely guarded and esoteric teachings imparted at these higher levels may not always be entirely consistent with its entry-level teachings.

In the confidential OT levels, Hubbard describes a variety of traumas commonly experienced in past lives. He also explained how to reverse the effects of such traumas. Among these advanced teachings, one episode that is revealed to those who reach OT level III has been widely remarked upon in the press: the story of Xenu, the galactic tyrant who first kidnapped certain individuals who were deemed "excess population" and loaded these individuals into space planes for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth). These space planes were said to have been copies of Douglas DC-8s, except with rocket engines. He then stacked hundreds of billions of these frozen victims around Earth's volcanoes 75 million years ago before blowing them up with hydrogen bombs and brainwashing them with a "three-D, super colossal motion picture" for 36 days, telling them lies of what they are and what the universe should be like and telling them that they are 3 different things: 'Jesus, God, and The Devil.' The traumatized thetans subsequently clustered around human bodies because they watched the motion picture together, making them think they are all the same thing, in effect acting as invisible spiritual parasites known as "body thetans" that can only be removed using advanced Scientology techniques. Xenu is allegedly imprisoned in a mountain by a force field powered by an eternal battery. He is said to be still alive today.

Scientologists argue that published accounts of the Xenu story and other colorful teachings are presented out of context for the purpose of ridiculing their religion. Journalists and critics of Scientology counter that Xenu is part of a much wider Scientology belief in past lives on other planets, some of which has been public knowledge for decades. For instance, Hubbard's 1958 book Have You Lived Before This Life documents past lives described by individual Scientologists during auditing sessions. These included memories of being "deceived into a love affair with a robot decked out as a beautiful blond-haired girl", being run over by a Martian bishop driving a steamroller, being transformed into an intergalactic walrus that perished after falling out of a flying saucer, and being "a very happy being who strayed to the planet Nostra 23,064,000,000 years ago".

Scientologists argue that most members of the organization have not attained a sufficiently high level to learn about Xenu. Therefore, while knowledge of Xenu and Body Thetans is said to be crucial to the highest level church teachings, it cannot be regarded as a core belief of rank and file Scientologists. Such information is not published in commonly available materials, and as such may not be part of what the vast majority of ordinary Scientologists believe.

Critics point out that Scientology literature does include many references to extraterrestrial past lives (even to low levels on the bridge), and that internal Scientology publications are often illustrated with pictures of spaceships and oblique references to catastrophic events that happened "75 million years ago" (e.g. the Xenu incident). This material ties in to the general purpose of Scientology, which is to learn about these "whole track" incidents on the OT Levels to confront the negativity the mind still holds from these incidents, and as a result to be free of the ill effects of these "whole track" incidents. Thereby, it is believed by Scientologists that they will achieve greater freedom, happiness, and abilities in their present lives.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology

Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard

Although he claimed to have graduated in civil engineering from George Washington University as a nuclear physicist, university records show that he attended for only two years, was on academic probation, failed in physics, and dropped out in 1931. It is also claimed that he obtained his Ph.D from Sequoia University in California, which was later exposed as a mail-order diploma mill.
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LOL owned, a mail order diploma, and I almost converted to scientology, shucks.
 
yeah scientology is a joke celebrity religion

*kisses red thread around wrist
 
I always find it funny that a religion based on extraterrestrial visitors was founded by a science fiction writer


oh and the only reason it's a religion is due to tax shelter purposes ..it's a cult


tom cruise is an idiot ..how he remains popular is beyond me, never been a fan of his movies/acting



they're lunatics:

Fair Game:

"Fair Game (FG) was a status assigned to those whom the Church of Scientology had officially declared to be Suppressive Persons or SPs. "Suppressive Persons" are those whose actions are deemed to "suppress or damage Scientology or a Scientologist." Often, this means they have been overtly critical of the church. a person deemed "Fair Game" "may be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed." Sometimes CoS use "noisy investigation" as a method."

Noisy Intervention:

When a person has been labelled Fair Game by the Church of Scientology, a noisy investigation may take place. The goal of a noisy investigation may not be to find out anything, but to harass the person being investigated. The procedure is to contact friends, neighbours, co-workers, etc. and inform them that they are investigating crimes by the target person.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy_investigation


sounds exactly what Cruise is doing to the South Park guys ..I really hope this expose scientology for the looneys that they are and I hope cruise's career suffers for it
 
Ah Ha Ha Ha.
I thought scientology was just some crazy Intelligant design cult.
But omg, how stupid is anyone who signs up. I've read all the wikipedia entrys on them, and just laughed.
They even have Scientology Labour Camps
 
In the defense of low level scientologists, they're not told most of the absolutely ridiculous stuff until they've been involved and invested with the religion for quite a while. In fact, I've heard more than one case of people being told all the stuff they've heard about scientologists is just paranoid malarky. And when they do find out about the crazier stuff, thats when a lot of people bail out.
 
CptStern said:
Fair Game and Noisy Intervention
sounds exactly what Cruise is doing to the South Park guys ..I really hope this expose scientology for the looneys that they are and I hope cruise's career suffers for it
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Haha. Too bad lots of other groups have already tried it on them, though. It's not really a new thing for them and it makes the episode more popular than it already was.

Here it is again for those who missed the earlier link:
http://www.buzzpatrol.com/news/tv/banned-south-park-scientology-episode-003546.php
 
DeusExMachina said:
I'm almost convinced Scientology is some kind of new world order organization. Minus the Cabal Zionist NWO Jews.
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Probably quite close to the truth.

Not that I know...or anything.
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Did you not read what I linked to?!?

If your a bad scientologist, they send you to a manual labour camp!!!
Like OMFG.
 
Hmmm....the plot thickens.
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060321f.php
Isaac Hayes did not quit his gig voicing South Park's Chef over some Scientology flap reports TV Guide.

FoxNews.com has deemed it "ridiculous" that the singer, who has been recovering from a stroke suffered in mid-January, would all of a sudden turn against the show for poking fun at his religion. Those close to Hayes are said to be "mystified" by the statement released March 13 and attributed to him.

Meanwhile he Scientology-skewering "Trapped in a Closet" episode, pulled last week amidst allegations that Tom Cruise had intervened, will air this Wednesday.
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