Catherine Gatt has been listening to the Fair Game podcast, which reminded me of Operation Clambake.
I’m also reminded of South Park s9e12, Trapped in the Closet.
When not mocking Tom Cruise, it summarized the Xenu story with a subtitle that read, This is what Scientologists actually believe.
Yes, the bullshit story L. Ron Hubbard pulled out of his ass for high-level initiates in OT III is so batshit crazy that outsiders have trouble believing that Scientologists believe it. Nonetheless, is Xenu really that much weirder than any other god we’ve made up? The stuff about spirits being trapped in matter is hardly original; it’s Gnosticism with 1940s pulp sf trappings, with Xenu as Ialdabaoth. Or maybe the Church of Scientology is selling ray-gun Catharism, with Clears as the new Perfect?
Either way, it’s arrant nonsense. If there was any truth to CoS doctrines, it could be established by habeas corpus. Xenu is supposed to still exist, imprisoned in some kind of ‘electronic mountain trap’. If so, produce the body. Show the world Xenu in his cage.
Hell, publish the location, too. Let independent observers confirm that Xenu is real. It can only help the Church’s case, if it indeed has the truth to sell and not mere faith.
No? Yeah, I didn’t think so. You’d be more likely to see the Ark of the Covenent stashed in Area 51.
Too bad Trey Parker and Matt Stone never thought to do that about the Republican Party or the broader ‘conservative’ movement, but despite being far right they might not have been sufficiently far out for such ridicule. And, unfortunately, there are millions more Republicans in the US than there are Scientologists.
In the meantime, it’s time to clear out some BTs. Not that my wife would be amused if I had an e-meter and took it into the bathroom for auditing. “Get out of my ass, you little shits!”