Scientology on trial in France

Its tough to write about Scientology on a God blog, since their god is a guy named Xenu who nuked Earth ten thousand years ago, or whatever. But, everybody's favorite pyramid scheme/cult is back in the news lately and boy these guys cannot buy a break.

First it was a worldwide web assault by the faceless Anonymous, then Germany wouldn't let Star Commander of the Earth and Operating Thetan Tom Cruise film his movie there and now the French are hammering on them in court for fraud and misuse of a prescription medication.

First of all, you need to pay your way into Scientology, which to me is a good sign my spirituality is not in good hands.

Secondly, their founder, L. Ron Hubbard was a Science Fiction writer. So a sci-fi writer starts a religion where the main deity is an alien named Xenu, and people believe this stuff?

Thirdly, what the hell is wrong with people?

The case in France is about two women who were allegedly coerced into handing over tens of thousands of Euros in exchange for intense cleansing consisting of exercise and vitamin overload.  These Scientologists are really into control, they like to force treatment on people, despite their dour outlook on prescription drugs. According to news outlets there are 45,000 French Scientologists.

It makes one ponder the minds of humanity to know that they are willing to follow a man who wrote his way from crappy science fiction books right into his own religion as though he discovered it, then literally sold it to millions of people, made them wear sailor outfits, and got away with it all dying a millionaire.

Financial lawsuits are nothing new for Scientology, their legal financial papertrail is long and goes back to their founding, when L Ron Hubbard was taking payouts from the church while trying to get Tax-Exempt religious status. We don't hold much respect for France here in the United States, as far as I can tell we're jealous of their efficient and free Public Health programs, but hopefully they can make the right decision on this and ban that financial parasite from their country forever. Scientology is like some spiritual venereal disease and the French rightly want nothing to do with it.