A Posh-and-Scientology Comment that Deserves Its Own Post

By: Laurie | May 3rd, 2007

Every once in awhile I will receive a comment that makes me think: Damn. I wish I’d written that. And then: This deserves a wider audience.

Well, no. That’s not quite right. It happens pretty frequently. Because I have interesting readers and commenters. But there are only so many commenters who I will subject to this further, intense level of scrutiny.

So it is with our own Real Salt Lake Offside blogger Ian’s comment on my Posh meets Scientology post:

I love scientology. It’s the only religion I have no scruples about making fun of, and so it sort of takes the pressure off all of the silly aspects of some of the others, because in the case of all the others, I have this voice in my head that tells me I should respect other people’s beliefs. When those beliefs revolve around millenia-old traditions and the basic idea that people should be nice to each other, fine, I’m there. But when there are spaceships and crazy fake machines that tell you how evolved you are, nuh uh. That’s just crazy. Has anyone here ever met a scientologist? Are any normal people scientologists? If they weren’t all celebrities obsessed with their hair staying perfect, these people would be walking around wearing aluminum foil hats to block the alien’s mind rays.

Be afraid, Becks, be very afraid.

Giggle. But of course there’s that part of me that, as with my brother-in-blog Ian, “tells me I should respect other people’s beliefs.” And that I really shouldn’t post this. But… NAH!!

As I said: Damn. I wish I’d written that.



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  • Diane |  May 3rd, 2007 at 9:07 pm

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    Be afraid exactly. Creepy…belief or brainwashing? It looks more like they put aluminum foil on OTHER people’s heads. So creepy to hear about their minders or mentors or managers or massager/healers (whatever) always being around new converts to watch them, YUCH. Or is it just the richest ones that can afford that kind of round the clock care for their young wives. Oooch creepy — kickette should have a special “working hardest for their money” award set aside for non-footballing situations just in case of emergencies like scientologists wives :( .

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  • Ian |  May 3rd, 2007 at 9:22 pm

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    Aww … thanks.

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  • Clint |  May 4th, 2007 at 6:24 am

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    Lots of people call their cults “religions” in order to get benefits from the govt and society. But if it smells like a duck, walks like a duck, etc. and so on.

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