Interesting New York Times Article On Scientology

Last night I sat through the not so uncommon debate on religion. You know the one, where everyone waits for their turn to speak, throw some big words around, and then let the next person have a go. For a minute I thought I felt a slight superiority realizing how silly the conversation was--but then I think I realized I was truly just jealous that I didn't get to throw my own pretentious comments into the bag.

Anyways, the conversation inspired me to read this article on New York Times about Scientology. And wow, I recommend reading, very interesting. Its weird because you read up on the practices and you think, how eery, creepy and strange the whole religion is--but then at the same time think about how moronic it sounds. Though, the article I have linked below was really interesting because for scientologists it really isn't a joke--its their life--they believe in what they are doing. Though, after reading the article it seems that there is a growing  divide between scientologists and their subsequent church. It seems like scientology soon might be going through it's own 'reformation.' Nuts!


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/us/07scientology.html?pagewanted=1&sq=scientology&st=cse&scp=2

All this scientology business had me thinking about the South Park episode. The controversial episode that lead to Isaac Hayes leaving the show, and subsequently lead to Tom Cruise trying to ban the episode.