The jury's out on whether Will Smith and wife Jada will accept Scientology into their lives. Since their friendship with Scientology power couple, TomKat, has spun into overdrive -- it's been reported that Will, at least, has taken some courses in the controversial 'religion'. Will and Jada are quick to defend the Cruises when the press questions their unusual beliefs. Most recently:
"...he defended friend Tom Cruise’s passion for Scientology....“I was introduced,[to] it by Tom and I’m a student of world religion,” Will said. “I was raised in a Baptist household, I went to a Catholic school, but the ideas of the Bible are 98% the same ideas of Scientology, 98% the same ideas of Hinduism and Buddhism.” [THAT 2% MUST INCLUDE THE WHOLE BIT ABOUT SPACE ALIENS BLOWING UP A VOLCANO CONTAINING THETANS.]....“When I sit and I talk with Tom Cruise, he is one of the greatest spirits that I’ve ever met – someone who is committed to making the world better,” Will said. “You have people [that] are attacking and wanna fight that don’t know nothing — how you gonna not know nothing about Scientology and attack somebody? It’s dangerous and it’s ignorant. How can I condemn someone for what they believe and I believe that God was born from a pregnant virgin?” [VALID POINT.][access hollywood]
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thank you for at least accepting the validity of that last point! scientology is some crazy shit... but no more crazy than any other religion. the space monkey is crazy alright, but the talking snake that tempted eve who was bourne of adam's rib to eat the forbidden fruit that brought forth original sin that angered god who then mysteriously empregnated a virgin bu use of an angel to bring a son to the human realm to die for our sins is acceptable??!!?!?!?!? not only is it acceptable but there's probably a handful of people that'll read this comment and think i'm going straight to hell for it!
johnny
wtf is he talking about? how can anyone know about scientology before they talk the shizz about it if no one is allowed to know about it unless they pay a bunch of money and get hooked up to machines and locked in a dungeon and have their mouths sewn shut?
i guess the difference is that l. ron wrote a sci-fi book (admittedly sci-fi) and then turned it into a religion. so it begs to question: did he con a whole buncha people into believing his 'fiction' or did he end up believing his own line of bullshit? that's the issue... that he took fiction and turned it into fact.
now. i, for one, and i think most christians who are spiritual rather than religious -- take the bible as allegory and not literal. because i totally agree with you john. (if we were to take the bible literally, the first family begat all future families...thus making us all biologically related. and we all know what inbreeding did to royalty -- so, this alone is extremely debatable.)
i mean, take republican candidate huckabee: he's gone on record to say he doesn't believe in evolution. he's a creationist. something i will never understand is why creationists can't appreciate the science end of things... why is it impossible that both science and God had something to do with it? can they possibly deny history? can they possibly deny biology? and for scientists... some things can't be put under a microscope... some things just are too inexplicable to be quantified. and some times you just have to admit that, perhaps, some thing else -- something (dare i say) divine played its hand.
sorry. huge tangent.
you're right, one book was admittedly written as sci-fi, while the other one was a compilation of visions by some dude that hung out for a couple of months in the hot-sun drenched semi-barren mountain peaks of palestine eating whatever mushrooms grew wild in the area.
btw, it is impossible that both god and evolution had something to do with it. pick a side! :)
johnny
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