Scientology: Bat Shit Crazy

I’m a loyal fan of Digg.com, but sometimes those crazy geeks get a little carried away with their Internet wars. Personally, I feel if the Digg community put the same amount of effort into world hunger, as they do for things like a HD-DVD decryption key (a lot of good that does you now, eh?), then there would be a lot fewer starving children in the world.

That’s why I secretly sighed under my breath when I saw Digg taking up the cause of bringing down the Church of Scientology. “Not this shit again,” I thought to myself. Granted, it’s not just the Digg community raging war against the CoS, but they are the people who brought it to my attention. I figured it would take a couple weeks to die off and nobody would talk about it again.

I was wrong.

Here we are a few months later and Scientology related submissions are still making the front page of Digg on a daily basis. Not only that, but their dedication to bringing down the CoS, caused me to research the “Church”.

As a one time religious studies major in college, I can say I’m pretty knowledgeable when it comes to major religions of the world, but I honestly never read a thing about Scientology while in school. My guess is Scientology is being taught, but only in the criminology classes. But I digress…

So my first experience with Scientology was their orientation video. Holy crap! That’s all it took. I thought it was a spoof at first, but nope, it was real. Real, certifiable, bat shit crazy.

The more I researched the CoS, the more I realized these people weren’t just crazy bastards, they’re a dangerous cult that’s been destroying people’s lives for years. And while I could get into details, like:

• How the CoS charges their members to be part of the “church” and ends up draining their bank accounts.
• How the CoS leaves sick members in locked rooms to die, when they become sick and no longer have any money to pay medical bills.
• How L. Ron Hubbard (founder of the CoS) was sentenced to four years in prison for fraud…
• How L. Ron Hubbard’s wife went to jail for attacks on the U.S. government (read: Operation Snow White).
• This list could fill a book…

…I won’t. Instead, I’ll point you in the direction of Xenu.net, a site dedicated to outing the CoS.

So if you’re like I once was and you get annoyed by all of the Scientology stories on Digg, I urge you to actually research the topic. It might at first seem like a bunch of geeks in their basements, raging war on some pointless organization, from the comfort of their computer chairs… but you’ll soon learn that they are at least doing something to help bring down an evil group of human parasites. And trust me, something is better than nothing… especially when it comes to Internet users. I mean, there’s a lot more pointless things these people could be passionate about. Trust me.