Scientology gets much-deserved ridicule in South Park episode

There's so much competition for The World's Craziest Religion, it's impossible to pick a clear winner. But Scientology has to be somewhere near the top of Mt. Crazy.

I say this even though I don't know very much about Scientology.

Well, until today. For after watching a South Park episode that was on one of the televisions in the aerobics room of my athletic club where I exercised this afternoon, I feel like I do know a lot about Scientology.

You can too, if you watch the 22-minute episode. Wikipedia has a summary of the plot of "Trapped in the Closet" if you're more into reading. And below I'll share some You Tube clips from the episode. 

South Park is wonderfully irreverent. Not just about religion. About everything. It's an animated series that appealed to adults. I've never laughed harder than at some South Park episodes. 

In the Scientology episode, Stan gets exposed to what Scientologists actually believe. Again, this sounds really, really crazy. However, every religion, pretty much, is equally crazy, just in different ways. Here's the clip:

Through a series of events, Stan is considered by Scientology leaders to be the reincarnation of L. Ron. Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. Trotted out to reveal Stan's fresh revelations, which are supposed to earn him and a Scientology leader $3 million, Stan goes rogue and tells the truth in this clip.

Proving that crazy religions don't have a sense of humor, the Church of Scientology targeted South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone by investigating them with the goal of finding embarrassing stuff that they'd done. 

Obviously Scientology didn't realize that the twisted minds who came up with South Park wouldn't be at all easily embarrassed. Apparently the investigation fell flat. 

I've only watched about half of this video. It was made by a guy who was a Scientology member for many years. He shares clips from the South Park episode, adding in his commentary on what was right-on about Scientology, and where South Park took some liberties with Scientology dogma in the name of comedy.

Comments

[Upyourgame]

South Park maligns Tom Cruise as gay (based on zero evidence) and you malign Gurinder Singh as capable of murdering his own wife (with zero evidence). That's entertainment.

[Brian Hines]

Upyourgame, actually as noted before I've never accused Gurinder Singh of murdering his wife. And South Park is a comedy/satire show, so of course they make fun of Tom Cruise. Regarding the RSSB guru, Gurinder has been accused of making death threats, as have associates of the guru:

https://hinessight.blogs.com/church_of_the_churchless/2019/02/gurinder-singh-the-rssb-guru-accused-of-making-death-threats.html

https://hinessight.blogs.com/church_of_the_churchless/2019/03/sheetal-talwar-talks-about-death-threat-made-from-rssb-satsang-office.html

[Trez]

The worlds craziest religion and the award goes to...wait for it...drum roll...RADHA SOAMI AND GURINDER SINGH DHILION
step up and accept your commended award for deluding most of humanity into a nut job religion of religions
Well done old chap congrats

So we can see after all those years of hard work Gurinder has put forth bull, all them grafted years of rat a tat tat on his favorite pearch a stage ranting on about how he single handedly has saved humanity and saved so many souls has paid off for him only...ah our hero hey

At the least south park is funny and witty not like some who try, but fail at each n every corner uh Gurinder Singh Dhilion how lame are those jokes take pitty on us all

As for Gurinders dirty clean slate of a record goes we just need to do a quick search on an engine to hear a woala and there it is search over, well game over Gurinder Singh Dhilion brings back a pandoras box which one never wishes he had opened, oh my

No finger pointing here, just a riddicule of pages on n on n on of how much of a low life of a shameless character he really is when off that little stage of his....how embarrassing
what he gets up to in his personal so secretive not to be talked about life
No Question and Answers on that please

Now you all know why, the butler never did do it, did he we all know who it was, is and never did he get away with it.
No one has accused the accused

[Appreciative Reader]

Haha, loved the South Park take on Scientology. Thanks for the link!

Absolutely, Scientology has got to be among the craziest religions there are. If you ask me which I believe are like the *craziest* religions ever, I'd list these three: Scientology, and the Latter Day Saints (the Mormon "religion"), and the Polynesian cargo cults.

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Although, as far as crazy religions, there's this: This exchange actually happened, apparently. Some missionaries came down to Polynesia, and tried their usual faux-sympathy faux-bleeding-heart thing, in try to convert the Cargo Cultists. (I forget which flavor of missionaries these were, Jesuits I suppose, but I'm not sure.) So then one of them befriends the chief of that island, and asks him, "You've been waiting for, like decades, more than a generation: and your John Frum has still not come. Doesn't that indicate to you that your John Frum thing isn't quite what you believe it?" To which the chief replies, "You guys, you've been waiting for your Jesus Christ to come back for actually millennia; and you wonder at our waiting merely decades?" (I'm paraphrasing, from imperfect memory, from Dawkins's account in The God Delusion; but I believe I've got the essentials right.)

The point is this: Are the beliefs held by Cargo Cult completely crazy? Absolutely, yes. But then, when you think about it, the kinds of things the hordes upon hordes of Jesus worshiping loons believe, are not one whit less crazy. We're only inured to that particular flavor of craziness through long familiarity.

Is scientology crazy? Sure it is. Completely crazy, and an obvious con job. Like wise Joseph Smith's nonsense. But when you think about it, they're no crazier than Christianity, for instance, Islam certainly, Judaism as well; as well as Brahma-sprouting-from-Vishnu's-navel Hinduism, and God-Emperor Shinto, as well as Buddhism (particularly Mahayana and Vajrayana, with their legions of Dakinis and Bodhisatvas and whatnot, and not to forget the Pure Land nonsense).

They're all crazy. Every one of them. The naivety of Jesus worshiping loons that believe the arrant nonsense that's been fed them, is not one whit less than the gullibility and the stupidity of the dupes of Scientology.

[JIm]

Ron Hubbard stole it all from Neville Goddard. NG is the Goat.

[Kranvir]

South park ridicules scientology, and as they're exposing the cults, a great sequel will be ridiculing RSSB , science of the soul, lol, and Gurinder Singh Dhillon , the clown.

Expose this monstrous and vile jackle and hide character people so close to him have seen. In public, he has a perfect image which he has carefully constructed over the years, and expanded his RSSB empire, stealth mode , further than even Hitler. Expose his motives for murdering his wife to save his face and that of his cult following so he and other family members can continue the RSSB , non elected , gurudom by contract- keep it in the family. All this to eventually take over the planet earth , so everyone can willingly become his brainwashed slaves for eternity. Sicko , sex demon baba of beas and leach family