Is it me or has this whole Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise thing gone really wacko? First, out of the blue Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise start dating right after she goes to see him about a part in MI:3. Let’s backtrack… sometime around April 11 (yes, of this year) she goes to see Tom about a part in the movie. Then she disappears for 16 days! No contact with anyone, not her family, not her friends (two of which she was never far from before), not even her agent and her manager. She comes back in the limelight on April 27 with Tom doing this song and dance about Katie being his life love (16 days? What the hell was he doing with a nice Catholic girl for 16 days.) and Katie fires both her agent and manager. She returns with a new best friend Jessica Feshbach, whose family has been knee deep in shady dealings and is still on the SEC’s watch list, and shuns her old friends. Then Katie is assigned a Scientology adviser by the name of Jessica Rodriguez that is the bane of all press people since she monitors and, on more that one occasion, intercedes on questions posed to Katie which is raising the ire of Warner Bros. (Don’t expect to see her in any more Batman movies, nor in much of anything coming out of WB.) Now Katie has decided to join Scientology! You think the poo-poo hit the fan before.

Then there is Tom, the once quiet, serene mega-star is now a raving, sofa-jumping maniac who spouts Scientology dogma at the drop of a hat railing against the use of drugs in cases of postpartum depression (Scientologist don’t believe in the use of any drugs, whatsoever, for anything) and calling psychiatry a pseudo-science (coming from an advocate of a pseudo-religion). Tom, are you sure those vitamins you are taking are really vitamins? Tom Cruise has turned into a media circus, in a bad way. If I were the leaders of Scientology I would be pulling in Tom’s reigns as hard as I could, maybe send him to a “retreat” for a few weeks.

Then there is this whole crap about Scientology. I’m a fairly reasonable person that will acknowledge any belief system calling itself a religion on the flimsiest of dogma, but I have to stop at Scientology. Though they don’t really call themselves a religion per se (a cult is more like it), they sure do a lot of religious “stuff” to make it look like one. Now I have a problem with a following that is predicted by its founder (take a gander at the book The End Is Not Yet)… sounds too much like a self fulfilling prophecy to me. There is just way too many unanswered questions, too much skullduggery, too much deceit (just look how they changed L. Ron’s history), and too many lawsuits. All this from a man who was a fairly good writer who could have easily been more if he had stopped trying to con the VA out of money and stayed away from the John Whiteside Parsons and the Aleister Crowley followers, the Ordo Templi Orientis (some of us know better than to deal with the OTO).

But that is just my opinion so you Scientology lawyers can put your papers back in your brief cases.

BTW, Scientologist, the OTO unfortunately still exists, it just not as public… sort of.

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