The Empire of the Odd

WASHINGTON – The White House drops a bombshell.  President Obama is Xenu, the dictator of the Galactic Confederacy. Amid the growing controversy about the mosque being built at Ground Zero and in light of the 24% of Americans that believe President Obama is a Muslim, the White House decided to finally reveal the truth about [...]

NYU professor Gabriella Coleman opened this profoundly profanity laced academic talk with a question: why have internet enthusiasts been drawn to denounce Scientology so vehemently for two decades? Scientology, she explained, has provided a perfect nemesis for geekery. To the geeks, freaks and hackers of the net the Church of Scientology subverts the idea of [...]

Anderson Cooper has made himself a powerful enemy: the Church of Scientology. Back in March, Anderson Cooper devoted a week of his show, “Anderson Cooper 360,” to a special investigation into allegations of violence and physical abuse within the Church of Scientology. Now, the church has struck back, devoting an entire issue of one of its [...]

By Alan Scherstuhl, Monday, Jun. 21 2010 @ 8:00AM The trouble with having a religion founded by a crazy writer is that crazy writers tend to write crazy shit. Traditionally, the Church of Scientology has handled this by making access to the craziest of L. Ron Hubbard‘s jabberings a reward you might earn in exchange for having blown [...]

Village Voice; By Tony Ortega, Friday, May. 21 2010 @ 9:33AM ?Mark Bunker (Wise Beard Man) has been tipping us to several embarrassing developments for Scientology overseas lately. The newest was yesterday’s raid of a Scientology center in Turin, Italy, where investigators uncovered a basement stash of records containing “sensitive personal data” about local officials and journalists that [...]

I just had to do that!

We have been giving the Mormons a hammering over the last few days. Although I find their beliefs highly improbable, it is hard not to admire their loyalty to them and their willingness to defend them. They say adversity makes us stronger, and this sect has had enough of that to become very strong. For [...]

CLEARWATER, FL – A spokesperson for the Church of Scientology International announced its Sea Organization is en route to Africa to fight Somali pirates. Departing from Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles, the elite church members sailed aboard the Freewinds, a former cruise ship sporting 3-inch navy surplus guns and a cargo hold filled with L. Ron [...]

Anderson Cooper | BIO AC360° Anchor This week we begin a four-part investigation into allegations made by a number of former high ranking members of the Church of Scientology. The allegations are about physical abuse they say took place within the Sea Organization, the international management branch of the church. These former members, many of whom [...]

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