Celebrity Death Match: Scientology vs. Kabbalah

Post Chronicle ^ | 3/30/06 | Mitch Marconi

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Oh that wacky Hollywood, only in tinsel town could there be a battle of trendy religions. In fact, it almost seems like a bit of a competition between the two heavyweight cults.

tPC fave Jeannette Walls says Kabbalah has won round one: 'The two religions - which are all the rage among the celeb set - have reportedly been vying for high-profile celebrity followers, and few are as coveted as former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and her hubby, soccer superstar David Beckham. The twosome is considered England's hottest couple, and celeb-watchers there follow them obsessively.

"It appears that there has been an almost frantic competition between the two most popular purported 'cults' in Hollywood, to get the Beckhams onboard," says Rick Ross of Cultnews.com. "Each group's top recruiter has come knocking on the door, Tom Cruise from Scientology and Madonna for her beloved Kabbalah Centre."

Victoria Beckham is friendly with Cruise's bride-to-be, Katie Holmes, and Cruise recently "approached" her about Scientology, according to Ross. Not long afterwards, she was spotted reading a copy of "Dianetics" by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.'

However, the former Posh Spice was recently photographed wearing the Kabbalah Center's trademark red-string bracelet, according to a published report.

[JRios1968]

[ishabibble]

That's Britney kissing her career goodbye. Or kiss of death.
Or parents don't shell out big bucks for their daughters to be fans of a victim of a cheap lesbo ploy.

That picture shows what is very likely the biggest mistake ever made in the history of entertainment. Madonna destroyed that girl in front of the whole world.

[SunkenCiv]

This is like a Moslem civil war -- everybody wins!

;')

[SunkenCiv]

Riot-torn Paris suburbs 'targeted by sects'
by Kim Willsher
The Guardian
Saturday April 29, 2006

Organisations including the Church of Scientology, labelled a cult in France, are targeting vulnerable residents in the country's poor, high immigration suburbs, it claims... France's official sects watchdog, the Interministerial Mission in the Fight Against Cults (Miviludes)... singled out the Church of Scientology, whose members include actors Tom Cruise and John Travolta, and described as "pure propaganda" a statement in which the group took credit for calming one of the riot-hit suburbs last November. After claiming to have been in the suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois - badly hit by last autumn's riots - for a fortnight members of the Church of Scientology wrote that its return to normal quicker than other areas was linked to the presence of its volunteers, said the report. "Members of the Church of Scientology, the New Acropole or the Jehovah's Witnesses are regularly deployed on the ground in France as elsewhere," it added... Six years ago the French parliament adopted Europe's toughest anti-sect laws, creating a new crime of "mental manipulation", punishable by a fine of £50,000 and five years' imprisonment.