Originally posted by: ricarleite
It's quite puzzling to wonder why Mr. Isaac Hayes, Tom Cruise and John Travolta wanted to be part of this scam - well I do understand Travolta, he never looked very bright, but - I mean... It's a well set scam, so I don't really blame them. They were brainwashed, basically.
There is an ever-growing cultural rift between normal people and the Hollywood crowd.
I think its reasonable to think they look at themselves as better than everyone else, so they need something "new and trendy" to believe. After all, most of the major religions of the world are over a thousand years old (Islam is going on 1400 years old, Christianity almost 2000 and Judaism is far older...I'm not even sure how old).
They look at scientology like a really expensive country club. Only the wealthy elite can pay enough money to become part of it, so its going to, by that reason, keep out the lower people from the other side of that rift I mentioned.
I agree that Isaac Hayes is making himself out as a hypocrite. Southpark has made fun of every major religion at some point or another and he said nothing, then they make fun of scientology and he decides to quit.
He can dish it out, but he obviously cannot take it.
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Since I've now got a bit of a forum for this, I wanted to give my opinion of Tom Cruise.
Over the past few months...maybe a year he's dropped Nicole Kidman (What the heck is wrong with HIM??), hooked up with a 22-year old Katie Holmes, done a few midling quality movies and jumped up-and-down on Oprah's couch.
Previous to that time period, things were rather quiet.
I think there is a very easy explanation for his actions. Its called a Mid-Life Crisis.
Thank you for your time, I had to get that out of my system.