On Mar 15, 2006, at 6:25 AM, Max Battcher wrote:
The episode in question completely angered many Scientologists. If you watch it, though, it really isn't all that scathing (nowhere near as mean and vicious as South Park has been to several varieties of Christian doctrine, such as more recently: the Mel Gibson school of violent worship).
Precisely. :)
In fact, the worrying thing is that most of what is scathing about it is actual "Scientology doctrine" repeated in the midst of the episode.
Doctrine that is copyrighted, and not revealed until you reach certain levels...
It's just sad that Scientology is so inherently funny.
Sadder that anyone takes it seriously - if they didn't it really would be Just Funny. But humans are capable of believing just about anything. It's bad enough that some of the whackier stuff - "creation science", "speaking in tongues" - that has attached itself to the major religions continues to flourish (indeed, some of the mainstream beliefs are a little odd, but hey...) but Scientology is just a cult, same as the Raelians or the various Church of Christ cult groups.
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