2012-06-17, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
Scientologists don't really have a
Sunday service. They like to say that they do, because they crave mainstream acceptance. But unless
Xenu rested after six days and L. Ron Hubbard just forgot to mention it, there's no reason for Scientologists to treat Sunday any differently than every other day of coursework, detoxes, fundraising, and generally clearing the planet.
So here at the Voice, we've come up with a Scientology Sunday tradition of our own, and we call it
Sunday Funnies! Our sources regularly send us Scientology's wacky and tacky fundraising mailers, and each week we choose a few of them to gaze upon, hoping that it inspires you to wax eloquent in our comments section. So here we go...
In previous Sunday Funnies entries, we noted that Scientology has claimed credit for an Ideal State (
California) and Ideal Continent (Western US), and here's another Ideal victory -- the
UK is going Full
OT!!! What a Jubilee bonus, as the people at this event just gave and gave, apparently.