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I’m beginning to learn that when Scientologists are out on the road promoting something, chances are, they will say something, well, quotable. John Travolta, as we know, has been out and about hawking the film Wild Hogs. He bragged to the Irish Independent newspaper that he is as famous as Marilyn Monroe and Elvis, but Scientology has prevented him from having the same fate as they did.

I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis, but part of the reason I didn’t go the way they did was because of my beliefs.

People make judgments about it [Scientology], but often they don’t know what they’re talking about. I would advise anyone who wants to know about it to read up on it. We [the Church of Scientology] are only getting bigger and we help people all over the world, from disaster zones to drug rehabilitation

He also told the paper how he used his connections to make Germany more accepting of Scientology.

We were having a problem in Germany [where some critics called Scientology a money-making entity rather than a religion]. I talked to [former president Bill] Clinton who talked to Chancellor Kohl and things have improved since then.

Oh, where do I begin? One thing I’ll give Scientologists is that the don’t lack ego, and L. Ron Hubbard knew how to create self-confident and pompous followers. If you lack self confidence or maybe have potential, unmentionable weaknesses that could hold you back in life, maybe take the advice of Travolta and “read up on it.” It has obviously kept him on the straight and narrow (except for that lip-locking picture that circulated a few months back) and, according to his insinuation, has kept him off of chemicals that have killed people on his level of fame. But he doesn’t address the majority of the world’s famous people who live a long, full life without Scientology and don’t meet their demises from chemical substances.

Upon reading this, I immediately was reminded of the John Lennon incident when he said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ. Although Jesus Christ is not in the current equation, it feels like the same sort of declaration about Travolta himself as well as the “only-getting-bigger” Scientology.

Lastly, if it’s true about that oh-so-subtle name dropping of Bill Clinton, the only reason I can think of that Clinton would talk to former German Chancellor Kohl about this subject is if some very rich person in Hollywood gave a nice contribution to the right place. Clinton didn’t convince everyone in Germany, though. Travolta’s brother-in-Scientology, Tom Cruise, landed a role in a film playing an anti-Nazi hero who attempts to blow up Hitler, but relatives of Colonel Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg don’t like the casting. His grandson said,

I and other family members are worried that the picture will be financed by the sect and be used to get across its propaganda.

Valid concern indeed.

Anyway, stay tuned for more entertaining quotes later in the summer when Travolta promotes Hairspray.

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