Ok, so I’m behind on this because I was waiting for a tape of it to arrive, but I’ve now, finally, seen the South Park which ripped the Church of Scientology.
While a general audience probably made more of the ongoing gag about Tom Cruise refusing to come out of the closet, those who have known for years what Scientology in reality is about pretty much consider the two minutes or so of This Is What Scientologists Actually Believe to be pure gold.
How could anything be better than getting to see an animated Xenu, complete with evil cartoon laugh? Or the disembodied souls of mass-murdered aliens who had been frozen and then dumped into Earth’s volcanoes, drawn as multi-colored sperm?
Good times.
As for the title here, you’ll have to spend some time with The Clam FAQ to fully appreciate the reference.
Interesting that you should reference such a thing. Tell me, do you know of “Operation Clambake” (http://www.xenu.net)? There is a ton of interesting and salacious stuff on the CoS there, and many people who come and go from there are old posters from the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology (which I was a poster of some frequency when I was much more NetNews oriented)
That Clam FAQ link in fact is a link into Operation Clambake.
Well, d’oh. You’d think Id’a knowed that.
Guess I’ve been out of that loop for much, much longer than I’d thought.