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Scientologists Freak Out Over T-Shirt

By , About.com GuideJune 20, 2006

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John Roecker, a film director, has a home-made t-shirt criticizing Scientology: one side shows Tom Cruise with the words "Scientology is Gay;" the other sides shows John Travolta with the words "Very Gay!" This outraged Bodhi Elfman and his wife, Jenna Elfman, both Scientologists.

TMZ reports:

According to Roecker, whose encounter was first reported on LA’s KROQ-FM’s Kevin and Bean Show, the invective started to fly after he made several references to Scientology theology and its reported central tenant, the story of Xenu.

Roecker says Jenna repeatedly said “What crimes have you committed?” and began screaming at Roecker, “Have you raped a baby?” as motorists on Los Feliz Boulevard drove by in snarled traffic.

Because, you know, everyone who mocks Scientology is likely a child rapist. It’s just a well-know fact, isn’t it?

It gets even better:

Roecker also says that the Elfmans had a young, twenty-something male companion with them whom they continually instructed to move away and cover his ears whenever references to Xenu were made.

Xenu, if you remember from out last episode of “When Scientologists Attack,” is an evil galactic overlord who tried to execute billions of people by putting them in Earth’s volcanos and then using atomic bombs to blow them all up. The souls remained, however, and thousands inhabit our brains. Scientology has the answer to his: get you to pay them exorbitant amounts of money to “clear” out the detritus of these poor souls.

Not all of this is immediately revealed to those suckered into starting the courses, though. This information is limited only to those who have already spent a lot of money and are thus too committed, financially and psychological, to admit that it’s all a load of horse-hockey. Thus it appears that the Elfmans were accompanied by a relatively new Scientologist who isn’t yet allowed to learn that he’s involved with a religion that sounds like it’s based on a rejected script for a science fiction comic from the 1950s.

 

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Thought you might find this, ummm, interesting.

Scientology in German

Now to go chase to boogeymen outta my soul! {-;

June 23, 2006 at 3:39 pm
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“a religion that sounds like it’s based on a rejected script for a science fiction comic from the 1950s”? Weren’t the Battlefart: Earth ‘books’ published, some of them even written by LRH long after he died?

June 24, 2006 at 3:39 am
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tyciol@hotmail.com(3)

I like scientology, it’s so much more interesting than the old guys like xianity/judaism/islam.

June 25, 2006 at 4:08 pm
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