JLo says Scientology isn’t weird
11:30 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Chismes|Religion
30 Jan 2007
While the rest of us get freaked out by Scientology, Hollywood stars seem to find it as mundane as a loaf of Wonder Bread. JLo is no exception, as evidenced by her rushing to defend the religion. It turns out her dad is a Scientologist (!):
Though not a practitioner herself, Jennifer Lopez spoke up on behalf of Scientology – and revealed that her father, David Lopez, is a follower – during a weekend interview with a Miami TV station.“My dad has been a Scientologist for 20 years,” Lopez, 37, told South Florida’s NBC6. “It’s weird people want to paint it in a negative way.”
People reports that after the interview JLo’s rep was all “Jennifer is not a Scientologist, nor is she becoming a Scientologist.”
If it’s not “weird” than why the extra effort to point out that you are not “one of them” nor will you ever be?
Via / People
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7 Responses to JLo says Scientology isn’t weird
James Lightfield
January 30th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
As a Scientologist for nearly 40 years, I find it somewhat odd that with more than 463 government agencies and ministrieworldwide using L Ron Hubbard’s technologies to resolve long-term societal problems, including illiteracy, drug abuse and criminality (see, http://www.able.org) and with nearly 175,000 people assisted by Scientology’s Volunteer Ministers disaster relief program (see, http://www.volunteerministers.org) that you would so generalize “freak outlike the rest of us.” The rest of what? A small percentage of vocal media gossip mongers. In the past year, 1,438 new Scientology groups and centers opened with 8 huge new facilities including London, Tokyo, Madrid, and Durban, South Africa.
Scientology is becoming quite popular.
TiredOfAirheads
January 30th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Scientology is a sci-fi fairy tale wrapped by a facade of religion.
Popcorn Shrimp
January 30th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
It doesn’t matter whether you think Scientology is “weird” is not. The Church doesn’t care, and it’s in the comfortable position of not needing to care. It’s not like most organizations that bend over backwards to maintain a palatable PR face: The Church is going to do whatever it feels it needs to do, no matter how strange it sounds to the masses, and no matter whether you or anyone else likes it or not. And the ironic thing is, the more know-nothings proclaim Scientology to be “weird” and “insane”, the more popular it gets. There’s truly no such thing as bad publicity.
Dermot Ryan
January 31st, 2007 at 3:51 am
Dear boys and Girls,
Scientology is the road to Freedom. That is my belief and goal.
That the guttersnipe press try to look for angles of attack at every turn, is not surprising in the least. Scientology just cintinues to expand no matter what. Why? Because it works and does exactly what it says it does, not what the press says it does.
Having scurrilous attacks made on it by the anti-SCientology movement( it is an actual movement with financial backing and objectives), and fanned by the sex-sensation press is like …so what!!!!Even heroes have lice!!!
Dermot
TiredOfAirheads
February 1st, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Scientology is effective at brain washing its followers.
Slou
February 2nd, 2007 at 5:31 am
What is weird is why some people like ‘TiredOfAirheads’ talk a lot about Scientology without knowing what it is : because they dont know what Scientology is – that’s for sure.
But they do know very well what a cult is ! Who knows what kind of old ghost they are trying to fight ?
Neilio
February 12th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
I am surprised at both the hate campaign and the “truth” campaign. What makes anyone think that a Sci-fi writer has any idea how people should live their lives? As someone who conducted his own life in a very questionable fashion and was rated by two military commanders as “unsatisfactory for any assignment” and “not temperamentally fitted for independent command.” Following a man of this calibre would make me question a lot more than the average scientologist seems to.