Do Scientologists Think Tom Cruise is a God?
by EG
Top Gun star Tom Cruise is one of the most famous adherents to the practices of Scientology, but sources say that within the mysterious religious community, he's much more than that. Read on for details.
Via Page Six.
Tom Cruise and his daughter Isabella Cruise continue to move up in Scientology, both taking more powerful positions in the secretive church — where the lower ranks are apparently ordered to see the actor’s movies multiple times.
Cruise is said to be “considered a deity within Scientology.” Former church member Leah Remini has said, “He is second to David Miscavige — the savior of the free world.” Cruise was seen March 9 at the front of a celebration of the holiest day of the Scientology calendar — L. Ron Hubbard’s March 13 birthday — at the church’s spiritual mecca in Clearwater, Fla., according to journalist Tony Ortega’s blog the Underground Bunker.
It was just reported that lower-ranking Scientologists are bused out to see Cruise movies, often multiple times, by their leaders, who buy thousands of tickets for his “Mission: Impossible” and “Jack Reacher” franchises to boost the actor’s box office. Ex-Scientologist Bree Mood — who left the church a few months ago — said in an interview: “Tom Cruise was a god in the lower ranks . . . every time a Tom Cruise movie came out they’d buy all his tickets. It could be 500, 1,000, up to 2,500 people. I’m not kidding.”
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