Hollywood was abuzz last night when Tom Cruise was spotted at the opera, talking to a young fan about "The Tragedy of Darth L-Ron the Hack" and encouraging him to "take a broader perspective" on things. He offered to show the unnamed fan "the true power and nature" of Scientology.
The next day, with the fan watching from the audience, Cuise appeared on the Oprah show. During the interview, the television host asked probing questions about about his political ambitions, prompting the following exchange. . . .
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Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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I laughed so hard I almost cried!
Is that “White Power” or something . . . ?
LOL!
Daily Planet – …Oprah was then quoted as saying “It is obvious that this contest cannot be decided by our knowledge of pop-psychology, but our skill with the lightsaber.”
Hehe. I had that on my blog a few days ago. It’s too good of a gif to pass up. We must spread it across the internet 🙂
Was the fan’s name Katie Holmes? Was she brought into the dark side?
Ten points to Veronica!
The Tom Cruise thing was funny, but $cientology is connected to the REAL dark side. L Ron Hubbard was a disciple of Alester Crowley.
Actually, Cruise was demonstrating the next generation joy buzzer (on sale at The Sharper Image).
I knew about the Hubbard-Crowley connection.
Tom Cruise was in the seminary to become a priest at age 14. Meanwhile, Katie Holmes went to a very good (academically speaking) Catholic school in Toledo.
Such a shame.
The sad thing is that Katie Holmes was raised Catholic…
The sad thing is, that people who think Scientology is made up crap (which is is) think Catholicism, Christianity, and all the other made up crap isnt.
I’d try to argue against the ideas in that statement, but the sentence was so poorly constructed, I’m not entirely sure what you were trying to say and I don’t have time to diagram it.
I stumbled across your blog while I was in the process of doing some online research. Very clearly Mr. Cruise needs some psychiatric intervention, but, wait, that’s not going to happen, is it?
‘He’s too dangerous to be left alive!’
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