In the last line of the South Park episode 912 “Trapped in the Closet” Stan shouts “I’m not scared of you. Sue me!”. L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology has a history of sueing for libel.

Because Scientologists definitely don’t like being accused of being a cult.

So whats the big hoohah about Scientology on South Park any way?

L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology is popular among some of hollywoods elite including Tom Cruise and John Travolta. In this episode of South Park Scientologists proclaim Stan is the reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard and come to worship him.

Stan declares that Tom Cruises acting sucks and so a distraught Tom Cruise enters Stan’s closet to hide away which ends up being a set up for multiple “come out of the closet Tom” jokes.

L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology on the surface is a system for self improvement. But some have charged it with being a money making scam. It also has some bizarre ideas about an evil alien Xenu from 75,000,000 years ago.

Tom Cruise and John Travolta seem to be doing alright in terms of “worldy success” and they seem fairly happy. Personally I don’t think that Scientology is a money making scam, (unless the evil alien Xenu is still around and likes making money) I just think that some of their ideas are misguided.

Scientologists seem to mean well and its not as if they’re going around starting wars like some other religious groups. Basically they’re fairly harmless.

As for their claim that Psychiatry being a psuedo-science I completely agree. There is nothing scientific about psychiatry. Its not based on non-biased clear empirical evidence like physics or chemistry, (although even these physics guys are no longer non-biased - a lot them now have their own unsubstantiated pet theories) Freud may have had a few ideas worth looking into in beginning, but now days Psychiatry its nothing more than a front for the drug and pharmacutical industry.

Anyway South Park and Scientology - check it out - pretty funny stuff.