# Celebrity Scientologists **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 5, 2002, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768 "2002-12-05T20:45:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/21 "2002-12-06T01:04:41Z")
No! Not Hyde! I’m ruined! My love for him has been squashed, What will I do!!!:smack: 😕 :mad: ☹ :smack: 😕 :mad: ☹ :smack: 😕 :mad: :mad: ☹ :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/22 "2002-12-06T01:14:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Miskatonic \* > \*\*S’Okay, the other one is [armed.](http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~aaron2/firearms/actresses.html#prepon) \*\* Cool that she digs guns, but shes still a scientologist ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/23 "2002-12-06T01:37:41Z")
And the guy who plays Frances on _Malcolm_!!! That sucks! Prepon is dating Christ Masterson, so it makes sense… ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/24 "2002-12-06T01:59:11Z")
Blah. Did you read the rest of that woman’s site? She’s a total cult-O-holic. This time it’s Christianity. ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/25 "2002-12-06T02:33:07Z")
> [@](#): > > And the guy who plays Frances on Malcolm!!! That sucks! Well him and Hyde are brothers, it sotra makes sense for them to have the same views,assuming that they were raised in that religion. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/26 "2002-12-06T03:17:25Z")
I’ll never understand how a minimally functioning brain can believe this [bullshit](http://www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/xenuleaf.htm). I know you need skill, and not smarts, to be an actor, but damn. OK, I think I’ve heard that the Xenu stuff isn’t sprung onto them until they are deeply involved, and have a lot to lose emotionally by rejecting Scientology at that point. But still, damn. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/27 "2002-12-06T03:36:19Z")
So, does anyone want to tell me why it’s worthwhile to compile lists of celebrities who believe something really stupid? I mean, if you want to demonstrate how stupid it is, knock yourselves out. I’ll happily join you. But what’s the obsession with identifying all the stupid celebs who have been duped by a particularly crappy writer? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/28 "2002-12-06T03:51:02Z")
It’s just interesting for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/29 "2002-12-06T03:56:26Z")
**minty** , I think most people want to believe that celebrities whose work we enjoy in some measure think and believe the way we do. At the very least, we like to think that the actors are as interesting to know as the characters they portray. I think most people, in this thread if not in general, are smart enough to know that this simply isn’t the case. But even so, it still hurts a little bit to have it shoved in your face as dramatically as finding out that they believe in Scientology. Especially when it’s Jason “What’s a Nubian?” Lee. As to why it’s worthwhile to compile lists of this sort of thing, well, it’s probably not. But that’s just the nature of the internet. Incidentally, I was approached by a Scientologist earlier today, who asked if I wanted to take a personality test. I told him, “I already have a personality, I don’t need to pay some creepy shadow cult to invent one for me.” Okay, actually I just said, “I’m not interested, thank you.” But I _wanted_ to say that other thing. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/30 "2002-12-06T04:01:42Z")
To quote myself from a previous thread: > [@](#): > > And the category is “Celebrity Scientologists” > > Who are: > > John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Kirstie Alley, Jenna Elfman, Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, Juliette Lewis, Anne Archer, Isaac Hayes, Karen Black, Nancy Cartwright, Danny Masterson, Chick Corea, and the late Sonny Bono. > > Others who have been associated with Scientology without formally joining are John Brodie, Mikhail Baryshnikov, William S. Burroughs, Van Morrison, Al Jarreau, Leonard Cohen, Emilio Estevez, Rock Hudson, Demi Moore, Candice Bergen, Brad Pitt, Christopher Reeve, Jerry Seinfeld, Patrick Swayze, Marcia Clark, Sharon Stone and Charles Manson. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/31 "2002-12-06T04:30:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > I think most people want to believe that celebrities whose work we enjoy in some measure think and believe the way we do. And out of the myriad ways in which they don’t, we choose to pick Scientology for particular scorn? Where’s the CS thread about Whitney Houston and all her cokehead friends? That’s at least as stupid as Scientology. > [@](#): > > But even so, it still hurts a little bit to have it shoved in your face as dramatically as finding out that they believe in Scientology. Oh yeah, I’m mortally wounded here. I can only recover from this ache by starting a thread about a list of celebrities stupid enough to be duped by a crappy fantasy writer. Never mind that there are any number of other idiocies afoot in society at large, my pain is caused by the knowledge that such people occasionaly appear on television. The horror! > [@](#): > > As to why it’s worthwhile to compile lists of this sort of thing, well, it’s probably not. But that’s just the nature of the internet. The nature of the internet is naked teenage sluts, an altogether more interesting pursuit than identifying Hollywood heretics. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/32 "2002-12-06T04:31:27Z")
I’m interested because I find Scientology, and certain various other interests, repugnant and possibly dangerous and choose to have what knowledge I can so that I can take what small steps I can to avoid doing anything beneficial for them. So I’ll avoid purchasing oil and gas. And in this case I wont pay to see a movie starring, co-starring or featuring scientologists prominently. Or pay to buy a DVD by them. I will make some exceptions though, like **The Simpsons** , but I generally follow it. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/33 "2002-12-06T04:39:53Z")
Christopher Reeve later then joined the anti-Scientologist cause-he now speaks out against them, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/34 "2002-12-06T04:44:09Z")
I believe that Reeves is a Unitarian. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/35 "2002-12-06T05:28:49Z")
[This](http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/suicide1.htm) scared me. If this site BS, let me know. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/36 "2002-12-06T05:40:41Z")
I’m with minty here. I am a big movie buff. I LOVE movies. I also have more than a passing interest in celebrities, usually being the “trivia queen” and knowing who was in what in some bit part from ages ago. But I don’t really want to know a whole lot about their personal lives. I never know whether to believe it, for one, and what good is it going to do for me to know? Sometimes I get upset when I read about some “rumor” about a favorite celebrity. Because I guess it bursts my bubble about whatever preconceived notion about them (and I am not _beyond_ having my bubble burst, dammit). It bums me out. Screw it. I hate it. For example, I recently read somewhere that Burt Lancaster was a real jerk. **I DON’T WANT TO KNOW THIS!** Why do I read this stuff?!?! I _like_ Burt Lancaster, I don’t really want to know about his feet of clay. I just want to enjoy his movies. Take it from me, people. You don’t really want to know. It isn’t as if you’re ever going to meet these people. As long as they are not an axe murderer or something, it is nothing to you. Just enjoy their work and be done with it. ---
**Author:** ![alex\_arg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@alex\_arg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alex_arg)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/37 "2002-12-06T05:50:29Z")
Jenna Elfman!!! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! Greta Van Susteren didn’t surprise me at all. ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/38 "2002-12-06T05:57:40Z")
I’m guessing that no-one is really looking from any comment from a former member of the **Co$**. I’d kind of like to say quite a lot about how the Celebrity Centres are set up (former Sea Org member here), but CS isn’t the right forum within which to make such comments. Oh yeah - Nic Cage is the one in whom I’m really disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.A.Nemo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mr.A.Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.A.Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/39 "2002-12-06T06:36:58Z")
Didn’t Nicolas Cage and Woody Harrelson rally against Scientology at some point? When they were buddies? One can assume that Nic’s relationship with Lisa-Marie changed his views… or he was at least “humoring” her. As for the rest of Celebrities, it does seem there is a disproportionate number of them within their population doesn’t it? From what I’ve read of Scientology, I think alot of it has to do with the Money aspect. To gain “levels” in the Church you have to give increasingly more money and who better than Celebrities to dump all their extra cash into gaining the ability to melt someone’s brain with a thought? I’d still like to know what initially entices them… what the bait it is etc. Much be one pretty powerful pitch. ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768/40 "2002-12-06T07:01:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. A. Nemo \* > \*\*I’d still like to know what initially entices them… what the bait it is etc. Much be one pretty powerful pitch. \*\* As a former member of the aformentioned “church”, I’m quite happy to tell you about “the pitch” either in another forum or in email. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-scientologists/140768.md?page=3)