"Cultist" attacked.

[Dangerrmouse]

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2793072.ece

"The German Protestant Church compared the Hollywood film star Tom Cruise to the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels yesterday and claimed the actor was using his celebrity status to publicise the controversial Church of Scientology, of which he is a prominent member.

The criticism of Mr Cruise, who is in Germany to make a film about an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, was the most vitriolic in a series of attacks on the actor over his membership of Scientology - regarded as a cult in Germany and kept under surveillance.

Thomas Gandow, 60, chief spokesman on religious cults for the German Protestant Church, described Scientology as a "totalitarian organisation" and said that Mr Cruise had become "the Goebbels of Scientology". "

[Ethos]

I have held a personal boycott of Cruise's movies since he began telling parents not to give their children anti-depressants during television interviews. Highly irresponsible.

Ethos

[burntgorilla]

"...claimed the actor was using his celebrity status to publicise the controversial Church of Scientology, of which he is a prominent member."

Well, duh.

[::Major_Baker::]

ethos, during television interviews?
what do you mean?

[Ethos]

ethos, during television interviews?
what do you mean?

It has been some time since his remarks. I believe he made them on NBC's Today Show.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Tom_Cruise_debates_psychiatry_on_Today_show


Cruise's statements, including "Psychiatry is a pseudoscience", and "There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance in a body", reflect the beliefs of the Church of Scientology, of which he is a member. The interview became particularly tense when Lauer mentioned that he knew people who had been helped by taking Ritalin, an attention-deficit disorder drug.

"Matt, Matt, you don't even — you're glib," Cruise responded. "You don't even know what Ritalin is. If you start talking about chemical imbalance, you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories, Matt, OK. That's what I've done."

Cruise went on to say: "You don't know the history of psychiatry, I do."


It is my hope that an extreme minority of people know the history of psychiatry as Mr. Cruise does.

Ethos