Scientology Spokesman Walks Out on ABC Interview
Submitted by DeepDiveAdmin on Oct 27, 2009
Church of Scientology spokesperson Tommy Davis walked out in the middle of an interview with ABC "Nightline" correspondent Martin Bashir last week, after Bashir repeatedly asked him about Scientology's alleged belief in space aliens.
In an interesting twist, the New York Post reported Tuesday that Davis showed up at ABC News headquaters in New York City about an hour before the piece was set to air last Thursday night, demanding that the segment be pulled. Staffers told him there was nothing they could do, and security guards asked him to leave.
Watch the interview here:
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The newer a cockamamie religion (but I repeat myself) is, the less willing "normal" people are to admit they believe in it.
But are the claims really any more ridiculous than any other theist religion?
Scientology is just as ridiculous as any other religion . Everyone's just been desensitized to the stories of Christianity.
If they really believe in Xendu then why hide it?
I wasn't familiar with the issue, so took a few minutes to find some stuff online to find out what it's about.
The space alien stuff appears to be the straight dope on the religion , which is apparently why Tommy boy refused to deny it. According to the pieces I found on it, their system is to not bring it up until a person is ready to pay big bucks to have the space alien mind control removed.
I don't see any reason not to advertise it, though. People love that stuff. The more a religion's basic tenents go beyond the totally absurd, the more people flock to it like lemmings going swimming. There's no reason to run it as a confidence game, lots and lots of people would pay big bucks up front to have space alien mind control removed.
Take christianity , for example. A big wig space alien knocks up a local jewish chick, then pawns her off on a local peasant who teaches the kid cabinet making. One day the boy wanders off into the desert without a hat and comes back possessed by his space alien dad. He joins the ranks of the unemployed and wanders about town pulling fish out of his hat with his jobless buddies, none of whom have much interest in women . The local politicians find the boy politically unreliable, and nail his hide to some railroad ties. The boy's space alien daddy approves of torturing the kid to death in order to save the locals from other "bad" space aliens. Now, all you have to do to be saved from the bad space aliens is to give 20% of your income to the church and believe real hard that someday the space aliens will return to earth and make everything okay.
Scientology doesn't deviate in any material respect from what is pretty much standard fare as far as these things go. I don't see any reason folks wouldn't drink it up like beer at a ballgame if they only knew how easy it is to remove the evil spirits.
The guy kept asking the same questions after he made it perfectly clear: "I will walk out if you ask me about that again."
I'm not surprised that he walked out.
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
I'm not surprised he walked out either. He simply had no proper response to the questions about his bullshit faith. His only choice was to walk out. Otherwise he would have to face up to the nonsense he actually believes.
It is his right to choose what he will dicuss, you don't believe in a person's rights?
One would think it would be more profitable to deny something which isn't true or to explain something which is, than to refuse to answer the question at all.
I found it somewhat immature. Bashir was simply trying to get a response; if you can't justify your beliefs or give an explanation as to why you have such a conviction, why are you giving an interview about your religion ? He had the chance to put those "misconceptions" and "slander" to rest.
He didn't, because just like Jesus, Mohammed, and Koresh - Hubbard was just a man with a wonderful story.