Wednesday, April 07, 2004

More on Scientology's Coziness to the IRS

On March 25th, I noted the story of Michael Sklar suing the IRS for what appears to be the same tuition write-off benefit that Scientologists have secretly arranged with the United States Internal Revenue Service.  A write-off Sklar has been denied, and that I could use.  I titled that post “F*cking IRS. (Sorry about that language, Mum, I don’t use it all the time.)

Today, at Townhall.com, Ben Shapiro has a piece up, regarding the above mentioned case, titled “L. Ron Hubbard has better lobbyists than God." An excerpt I particularly enjoyed.

"What exactly are Scientologists writing off? Thousands of dollars worth of pure baloney. As authors Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner detail in their fascinating book, “Hollywood, Interrupted,” Scientology itself is a load of psychedelic babble, and an expensive load at that. It costs over $300,000 to reach the top levels of this cult. “Auditing”—the service that the IRS allows Scientologists to write off—is a method of purging “thetans.”

Breitbart and Ebner describe what thetans are: “Over 75 million years ago, in a universe far, far away, evil alien overlord Xenu captured all the rebel souls by calling them in for tax auditing and, after injecting them with a mixture of glycol and alcohol, they were transported in B-1 bombers to earth and flung into volcanoes. Then the volcanoes were exploded with neutron bombs. The souls of these immolated aliens, called body thetans (thetan is L. Ron’s word for souls), now cling to us like nasty body lice, through reincarnation after reincarnation, and can only be removed through hours of auditing at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars."

Wouldn’t it be cheaper just to buy a lifetime supply of RID or to put in a sheep dip?

Posted by John Venlet on 04/07 at 06:20 AM
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