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thehefnerI think we were all wondering how devout Scientologist Issac Hayes reacted to South Park's brilliant and frankly daring skewering of Scientology. Now we know. He's quit the show.
"There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs ... begins," Hayes said in a statement.
(by the way, I didn't realize Lisa Marie Presley was a Scientologist. Now I have a reason to hate her beyond the fact that she pressured Nick Cage into selling his comic book collection. If I owned a copy of Action Comics #1, not even a woman could get me to sell that. And seriously, what kind of woman would want that?! Clearly, a Scientologist)
I like Matt Stone's response on CNN.com: "In ten years and over 150 episodes of 'South Park,' Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslim, Mormons or Jews," Stone said in a statement issued by the Comedy Central network. He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show."
It's not so much that I think Scientologists are all nuts as much as that I wonder why they are all such a defenseless, humorless bunch? But while we're on the subject of them all being nuts, I remember watching the now-infamous South Park episode, telling the origins and beliefs of Scientology with a flashing banner of "THIS IS WHAT SCIENTOLOGISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE", and I remember thinking, "Well, on one hand, is this any dumber than what Christians, Jews, Muslims, Pagans, etc believe? Is it any more silly than, say, believing in a man walking on water? On the other hand, YES!"
"There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs ... begins," Hayes said in a statement.
(by the way, I didn't realize Lisa Marie Presley was a Scientologist. Now I have a reason to hate her beyond the fact that she pressured Nick Cage into selling his comic book collection. If I owned a copy of Action Comics #1, not even a woman could get me to sell that. And seriously, what kind of woman would want that?! Clearly, a Scientologist)
I like Matt Stone's response on CNN.com: "In ten years and over 150 episodes of 'South Park,' Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslim, Mormons or Jews," Stone said in a statement issued by the Comedy Central network. He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show."
It's not so much that I think Scientologists are all nuts as much as that I wonder why they are all such a defenseless, humorless bunch? But while we're on the subject of them all being nuts, I remember watching the now-infamous South Park episode, telling the origins and beliefs of Scientology with a flashing banner of "THIS IS WHAT SCIENTOLOGISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE", and I remember thinking, "Well, on one hand, is this any dumber than what Christians, Jews, Muslims, Pagans, etc believe? Is it any more silly than, say, believing in a man walking on water? On the other hand, YES!"
