AP-With the help of John Travolta, educational techniques developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard are being used in a Louisiana public school, according to Florida’s St. Petersburg Times. In the mayhem that followed Hurricane Katrina, Celebrity Scientologists, including Travolta and Isaac Hayes, “played key roles” in persuading Prescott Middle School in Louisiana to adopt a Hubbard program called Applied Scholastics, reports the St. Petersburg Times.

What the deuce? This is what happens when the Bible thumpers cry enough because they can’t have ‘intelligent design’ taught by ministers with confessional booths in public schools. Any cult who refers themselves a religion can argue for their garbage to be taught to your kids (a cult= religion without political power and which requires major financial sacrifice for ’salvation’). So while you’re being a good ‘holier than thou’ Sunday Christian, your kid is learning about Thetan levels and the glory of L. Ron Hubbard. Hubbard has always been an interest of mine, simply because of his ridiculousness. The fact that he had the balls to start a religion AND GET PEOPLE TO PAY HIM is friggin’ amazing.

Here is an excerpt of Scientology’s doctrine:

When a person dies – or, in Scientology terms, when a ‘thetan’ abandons their physical body – they go to a “landing station” on the planet Venus, where the Thetan is re-implanted and told lies about its past life and its next life. The Venusians take the thetan, “capsule” it, and send it back to Earth to be dumped into the ocean off the coast of California. Says Hubbard, “If you can get out of that, and through that, and wander around through the cities and find some girl who looks like she is going to get married or have a baby or something like that, you’re all set. And if you can find the maternity ward to a hospital or something, you’re OK. And you just eventually just pick up a baby.” To avoid these inconveniences, Hubbard advised Scientologists to refuse to go to Venus after their death.

And in more hilarious Hubbard history:

In 1967, L. Ron Hubbard further distanced himself from the controversy attached to Scientology by resigning as executive director of the church and appointing himself “Commodore” of a small fleet of Scientologist-crewed ships that spent the next eight years cruising the Mediterranean Sea. Here, Hubbard formed the religious order known as the “Sea Organization” or “Sea Org”, with titles and uniforms. The ‘Sea Org’ subsequently became the management group within Hubbard’s Scientology empire. He was attended by “Commodore’s Messengers”, teenaged girls dressed in white hot pants who waited on him hand and foot, bathing and dressing him and even catching the ash from his cigarettes.

While we ALL need girls in hot pants at our beck and call, our kids don’t need to be learning anything that ever came out of this douches’ mouth.

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