This week’s episode of Scrubs, besides being utterly hilarious, slammed scientology in the bargain. The serious plot is Carla’s post-partum depression. They have another character talk to her, and this was the line that had me laughing so hard I scared the cats:
“Listen: You can’t get rid of this by sheer force of will, or positive thinking, or taking advice from a big Hollywood movie star and the dead science fiction writer he worships. You need to get some help.”
All hail comedy writers, Masters of Juvenile Scorn themselves.
L.Ron Hubbard is going off like a Cruise missile ! :)
There was a Science Fiction rewrite “Inferno” by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (thank Google for finding the correct authors) that had L Ron Hubbard as one of the people being punished for misuse of religion. It follows a science fiction author as he retraces Dante’s journey but with modern people in the various locations.