Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Scientology, or Soggy Biscut?

If there is two sure things I’ve learnt in life its: Don’t believe the hype and don’t fuck with God.

Like the time two Mormon girls came to my door whilst I was home from work sick one day. One was a gorgeous young blonde American girl; the other was good from afar but unfortunately far from good. Never the less, I invited them to both come back the next day when I knew I would have ample time to clean myself up and bone them both. Imagine my surprise when I found that several strapping young Polynesian boys had taken their place the following day! Luckily I had spotted them from the spare room and spent the entire 25 minutes they remained on my front step crouched silently in the spare room hoping they could not hear me soiling myself. The lesson I learned that day? Don’t fuck with God.

Nor should you pretend to be God or even make like you are in his circle of trust, like the Scientologists do. They claim to be a ‘religion’ by having ‘Church of’ in their official title. They even use the cross in some of their literature but hey, so did the Nazis. There are even expensive buildings scattered around the world with big signs that read ‘Churches of Scientology’, but you can bet there is no praying going on inside. They’re all too busy counting the money the make pretending to be religious, because in most countries, religious groups don’t have to pay tax!

Scientology is fast becoming the sort of pseudo secretive sect that makes it seem as though everyone else is on the secret, but you. It’s all starting to smell a bit too much like the bullshit the Free Masons built up around themselves with all that talk of secret codes, initiations and handshakes. Some folk will have you believe that the Free Masons are to be implicated in every major conspiracy theory going. I for one don’t believe any of it. I reckon the Masons were and are a bunch of middle aged men who get together once a week for a game of soggy biscuit. They might have a secret handshake but hey, if that’s what they get up to who wants to shake their hand anyways?

Carlos the Jackal is another prime example of why you shouldn’t believe the hype. During the seventies and early eighties when international terrorism was having its best period for ages and more planes around the world were getting hijacked than there were getting in the air, there emerged this persona of ‘Carlos the Jackal’. Carlos was back then what Bin laden is to the world today, only Carlos wore cooler suits and a retro style befitting of the worlds most wanted man. He also had an afro. Not a cool black mans afro, more a sleazy Cuban afro. During this time anything that got blown up was attributed to Carlos, much to the annoyance of the actual pricks who’d put in the time and effort to blow the thing up and then didn’t even get the props afterwards!

The filth never caught Carlos but investigative writer David Yallop did and found out that the guy was nothing more than a two bit terrorist wannabe who stuffed up his first assignment so badly he never got another by his superiors. And yet, the legend lived on and grew, just like it did with the Free Masons and like its starting to with the Scientologists. Why? Because of fear. No one wanted to actually tackle the cause of terrorism, not when it was easier to attribute it to a mad man with an afro who could not be stopped.

Scientology should have been stopped long ago. It was thought up by a guy who did hypnosis and wrote science fiction novels for a living. Before he wrote the good book of Scientology, the founder told some of his mates that he planned to start a religion that would make him a lot of money, which he has. You’d think at this early stage alarm bells would be ringing for prospective devotees, but apparently not. One of his sci-fi books was made into a movie by John Travolta who, funnily enough, is a paid up member of the Church of Scientology. I’ve been told the movie is shit but I can’t really comment as I haven’t seen it due to the fact that I suspected it would be shit.

Scientology as a business has made shit loads of cash and members of the Church get a commission if they recruit new members. Tom Cruise, the man midget with the Mohican's haircut is now officially the Church’s Number 2. Tom the Jackal. Why is it that cult religion’s are all headed by guys who either a) have the most money or b) have fiddled the most kids? In a move that is straight from the Joseph Goebbels book of Propaganda, the Scientologists are legally trying to get the likes of Google, Yahoo and other search engines to remove from their results any pages that contain negative comments on Scientology.

Hardly the work of a movement that would have you believe that it’s a religion and not a money making enterprise. Now I’m not against religion by any means - what ever gets you through the day y’know - but when they start sucking the hard earned cash out of people who are desperate to believe in a higher order of things and then try to make like thats not what they're doing, then they deserve to have there hype exposed for what it is; bullshit.

I only hope that when the Scientologists go all Waco on each other, no one misses shooting Tom.

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