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This, friends, is truly tragic.

Isaac Hayes, the voice of South Park's beloved character Chef, is quitting the show.

Why? Because "a line has been crossed."

http://articles.news.aol.com/tv/article.adp?id=20060313163309990010

The real reason, though Hayes would probably never admit it, is that he's an avowed scientologist, and recently there was a South Park episode which made fun of L. Ron Hubbard's new-age pet project. Scientology, of course, objected strenuously to the episode and managed to get the UK to agree to never air it again. It was also censored in the US, but to a lesser extent.

This is a religion in which it is permitted by church doctrine to "trick, sue, or deceive" any non-believing detractors of the faith, in order to "destroy" critics, i.e. heretics. They have a long and colorful history of going to extreme lengths to quash bad PR. In the same vein, Hayes never once complained about the content of South Park episodes that ridiculed Judaism or Christianity, which was done practically in every episode of the show.

They also believe that 75 million years ago, a galactic overlord named Xenu brought life to the planet Earth by exiling a host of creatures from other planets because of overpopulation. Oh, and elite scientologists are telepathic, telekinetic, and immortal.

This reminds me of that religion founded by that French race car driver, y'know, the one where they believe cloning is the key to immortality and that Moses is waiting on Pluto for us to come say hi.

There's also a really good article about scientology in one of the more recent issues of Rolling Stone. It's the issue with Shaun White on the cover. If I had it with me, I'd include some passages from it, but it's an excellent piece, one of those that'll make you laugh and cry at the same time. These fuckers are just nuts.

That goes for you too, Cruise.