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Beck and Scientology

Man, it's like pulling the curtain on the wizard in oz. Beck is actively being promoted on the scientology celebrity website. Also, he's apparently being a little more like Tom Cruise and actively speaking about it here.

Perhaps the best analysis (although admittedly very anti-scientology) is from this site. It's a background briefing for any future reporters on how to deal with the subject when interviewing Beck. The piece is informative for its many footnotes and references to previous instances where Beck has publicly addressed his association with Scientology.

This whole round of my investigation on this topic was set off by a recent article in Stylus Magazine.

I think that this whole reassessment by me is being brought on by Tom Cruise's recent, public , militant attacks on psychiatry. Because TC bashes psychiatry due to his adherence to scientology, I have developed a distaste for scientology. The analogy might be crude, but those who seek to criticize a particular field of scientific study because their "religion" teaches that the particular science is a lie are not unlike fundamentalist christians who teach that dinosaurs didn't really exist. Is Beck now one who fits in this category of teachers? WTF?

I didn't really have a problem with scientologists before. I though Travolta was killer in Pulp Fiction, Juliette Lewis good in Natural Born Killers, and Tom Cruise all right in Mission Impossible and Magnolia. But for this most recent round of Tom Cruise generated publicity regarding its beliefs, I prolly would've never had a problem with it. But now, with all that's come out recently, I suppose I do have a problem.

Also, just found that someone else is wrestling with whether one can still be fan of Beck knowing of his connections to scientology.

Damn. Things would be much easier if it as Karl Rove and George W. who were the scientologists.