Stumbled upon this Slate.com article discussing Isaac Hayes’ afterlife as a devoted Scientologist. He died on Sunday (yup, slipped past me as well). Related Slate articles (from the same one): Mark Oppenheimer explained why Scientology is not a cult, and Bonnie Goldstein revealed the contract Scientologists have to sign. Juliet Lapidos picked out the juicy bits of the recent unauthorized Tom Cruise biography, while Michael Crowley assessed Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Michelle Tsai explained why Germans hate Scientology, and Daniel Engber reported on Scientology’s beef with psychiatry. Amanda Schaffer called Scientology’s 9/11 worker detox program a sham, and Dana Stevens got creeped out by Scientology’s preference for “silent birth.”
I had a passing interest in Scientology over the years, but since they became a regular presence at my local shopping centre I’m trying my “thetan” best to understand more of it but it appears to be a subject that you must sit down and make an efffort to understand. Maybe I’m just cheap or principled not to buy Dienetics.