We FReepers get uppity when the Lefties ridicule our beliefs, so I prefer not to engage in similar tactics with others (such as Cruise) unless they fire the first shot or get in my face. Until then, it's live and let live.
I don't care if anyone mocks my beliefs and I will continue to mock Tom Criuse as long as he "puts it in our faces".
The source may be sponsored by something you find unseemly (is that live & let live too?) but the facts are facts. They prey upon people and get them to pay large sums of money to further their "religion status level". It is a cult. But, as Jim Jones says....just drink the friggin kool aid!
"Since 1986 authorities in France, Spain and Italy have raided more than 50 Scientology centers. Pending charges against more than 100 of its overseas church members include fraud , extortion , capital flight, coercion , illegally practicing medicine and taking advantage of mentally incapacitated people."
- Time Magazine, May 6, 1991
Actually, I dislike Cruise because he's an arrogant, patronizing, and obnoxious fanatic. Like when he browbeated Matt Lauer, saying "You don't know about the history of psychiatry. I do." I'm no fan of Lauer, but Cruise came off as arrogant, sanctimonious, and fanatical. Then, have you heard him bashing Brooke Shields' use of Paxil to help her deal with a nasty case of post-partum depression?
Yes, but Cruise seems like he basically wants to push Scientology down our throats. Like when he basically made Katie join $ci, and how he's apparently trying to get Keri Russell into it too.