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Angry Nut

He just keeps getting loonier and loonier:

ACTOR Tom Cruise has added to a growing reputation for eccentricity after a heated row on US television over his support for Scientology.

Cruise, 42 - whose new film, War of the Worlds, had its premiere in London last week - rounded on Matt Lauer, the genial host of NBC's Today program, when the subject of their interview turned to the controversial group and the prospect of fiancee Katie Holmes, 26, being converted.

"Scientology is something you don't understand," declared Cruise. "It is a religion. Because it's dealing with the spirit - you as a spiritual being."

Bwahahahahahaaha....Oh, sorry, that was cruel.

The interview became more combative when he was asked about a recent public reprimand he gave to actor Brooke Shields for taking antidepressants rather than vitamins to deal with her postnatal depression.

Founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in the 1950s, Scientology - which claims more than 8 million members worldwide - teaches that psychiatry is "Nazi science" (Alert! Alert! Godwin's Law!) and that its medicines are all about mind control. When Lauer said many people had been helped by such drugs, Cruise dropped his famous smile and declared: "You are glib. You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do."

Tom's definately had experience in psychiatry, I'll give him that.

Well, he does need it, after all.

PS: Look at him getting all feisty:

Truly terrifying.

Like a poodle humping the leg of a Siberian Tiger.

UPDATE: Here's why Scientologists hate Psychiatry

UPDATE II: Here's Tom killing Oprah, Sidious style.

Posted by Quentin George at June 27, 2005 06:36 PM