Scientology is “stupid” council tweeter on Newsnight
Via New Humanist:
Following on from yesterday’s story about the Cardiff councillor facing disciplinary action for referring to Scientology as “stupid” on Twitter, here’s the man himself, John Dixon, appearing on Newsnight last night (video via Index on Censorship). Good to see this worrying case getting some wider publicity beyond all the web action it has generated.
Continues: http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2010/07/councillor-in-trouble-for-calling.html
John Dixon, let the name be trumpeted throughout the land as a politician who is not afraid to speak his own mind about a dangerous and stupid cult; bravo I say, bravo.
He defends his position quite eloquently I think and has nothing to feel remiss about. Any other politician would no doubt have immediately retracted the statement in a cowardly display of political correctness.
I think he deserves immediate and sincere support for sticking to his guns on this one, no doubt the dangerous and stupid cult will be out to rattle him in the coming weeks and we need to show that he was well within his rights to express such opinions as a free individual, albeit employed as a public figure and representative.
Scientology is a cult that believes reincarnated souls (“thetans”) on earth have extraterrestial pasts on other planets; according to ttheir beliefs, 75 million years ago Xenu, the tyrant ruler of the “Galactic Confederacy”, brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and detonated hydrogen bombs in the volcanoes. The thetans then clustered together, stuck to the bodies of the living, and continue to do this today.
Stupid or what?
Apart from Young Earth Scientologists who believe that the Thetan-Human hybridisation really happened only 6000 years ago