Tom Cruise — 'the Goebbels of Scientology'?

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Description: Tom Cruise — 'the Goebbels of Scientology'? By Jeannette Walls MSNBC The war of words over Tom Cruise's next film is heating up, with a leading church in Germany comparing the Top Gun star to a notorious Nazi. The German Protestant Church has compared Cruise to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and that he is using his fame to publicize his faith, the sometimes controversial Church of Scientology. Thomas Gandow, chief spokesman on religious cults for the German Protestant Church, called Scientology a "totalitarian organization" and alleged that Cruise was "the Goebbels of Scientology," according to various overseas reports, including the London Independent. Cruise's camp is slamming his comments as "irresponsible" and "wrongheaded." Scientology is recognized as a religion in the U.S., but is under scrutiny in some other countries. Tom Cruise has been granted permission to shoot his next film, 'Valkyrie' — about an assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler — in Germany, but the project is still stirring up heated reactions. "This film will have the same propaganda advantages for Scientology as the 1936 Olympics had for the Nazis," Gandow said, referring to the publicity the 1936 Berlin Games gave Germany. "Mr. Gandow's comments are both irresponsible and wrongheaded," a spokeswoman for Cruise said in a statement emailed to The Scoop. "'Valkyrie' has nothing to do with Scientology. It is a historically accurate thriller developed by Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie that presents the World War II resistance hero Col. Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg as the heroic and principled figure he was. To attempt to smear such a movie by comparing it to Nazi propaganda flies in the face of reason and logic — and even worse, it belittles the enormity of the Nazis' crimes." © 2007 MSNBC Interactive
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seemstheiralltaken ::: Favorites im gonna watch the movie as soon as it comes out and i dont see a problem with tom cruise playing stauffenberg . he seems like a nice guy and ppl dont complain about the christian church either which has evidently commited more crimes in history than scientology . its not a parody about stauffenberg , hes just playing a role so its all good . 07-09-16 16:27:52 __________________________________________________
blackphantom01 ::: Favorites Tom Cruise is now one of the greatest German heroes in history. I'm not saying that this is right or wrong, I only want to say that Tom is responsible for that what he says or does in the movie. I really hope he also knows that 07-09-16 06:11:05 __________________________________________________
NikiYan007 ::: Favorites Tom Rocks! I've met him, see my vedio 07-09-07 04:29:31 __________________________________________________
kreskinkun ::: Favorites Cool video, and I'm sure Tom is a nice guy. But considering his outspoken support of Scientology and the behavior of that organization, Germany is right to be skeptical of him. 07-09-14 11:46:00 __________________________________________________
Libertaerer ::: Favorites In Germany nearly everything is qualified as "totalitarian". It's so ridiculous... 07-09-06 10:43:53 __________________________________________________
macflyfilm ::: Favorites I hate scientology and scientologists. 07-09-04 20:30:42 __________________________________________________
iaminsain1 ::: Favorites Tom Cruise dance w/coach 07-08-26 10:05:24 __________________________________________________
billfenner1967 ::: Favorites What a waste of time. This program is a bad joke. I couldn't care less about Tom Cruise's beliefs -- nutty though they might be -- but what the fuck has Scientology got to do with a WW2 movie?! Jesus, just let them make the bloody movie. It'll probably be good, actually. 07-08-25 08:20:53 __________________________________________________
musketeer86 ::: Favorites true but considering its a tom cruise movie all he's gonna talk about is his religion while he's promoting the movie. i could really care less about scientology and i don't even consider it a proper religion. i just wanna watch the movie and learn about it and enjoy it. i really wish tom and everyone else would just shut up about about scientology. 07-09-06 09:11:42 __________________________________________________
rotkohl123 ::: Favorites everyone is always talking about scientology what do you care? everyone can chose the religion by yourself it´s totaly overcount 07-08-25 05:27:28 __________________________________________________