How wacked out is he really? Standing on the outside (as a Free Thinker) looking in, what he's sayin' is no more wacked out than many of the ideas and beliefs of popular organized world religions...I mean if you really wanna take it there. It might sound crazy to someone that believes in Jesus or in the stories of the Qu'ran or Torah, or in a creator in general, but for me as a non-believer there is no differentation for me between Scientolgy and any other religion. You cats are lookin' at Tom Cruise sideways but he's no different than someone evangelizing on your local televison station on a Sunday morning. I don't know what your personal beliefs are, and this is not a direct shot at you or anyone else here, but rather at the intolerable tone of this conversation. Unless you're an Atheist, I think the saying applies here "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones". Besides, it's not implausible to think that 2,000 years from now there will be generations of people who will believe in Scientology and would live and die by and for it just as people have for Judaism, Christianity, Islam and many other Eastern belief systems. Think about it.
My 2 cents is always worth it's weight in platinum and diamonds baby.