More sacred than Scientology
11th February 2011
Steve Sailer does Hollywood.
That’s pretty funny when you think about it: a major player in Hollywood is a Scientologist for his entire career, but he finally rebels because … one Scientologist staffer in another city signed a petition against gay marriage.
To me, the most interesting thing about Scientology is how it was an outgrowth of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. L. Ron Hubbard was a sci-fi writer, the great editor John W. Campbell heavily promoted his Dianetics (which was originally intended not as a religion but as an equally plausible and cheaper competitor for Freudianism), and Hubbard’s pal Robert A. Heinlein supposedly gave him the idea that you could get rich starting your own religion.
February 14th, 2011 at 06:29
Everyone in Hollywood wants a religion in which god is a large version of themselves.
February 14th, 2011 at 08:44
And most of them succeed … or act as if they had.