“Why don’t you do a column on Scientology?” my son asked me the other day. “It’s a harmful cult that hurts a lot of people.”I’ve had some experience with cults.Founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1952, Scientologists believe that millions of years ago an evil alien ruler named Xenu kidnapped millions of aliens and brought them to Earth in spaceships that looked like golden DC 8 airplanes. He then dropped them inside volcanoes and blew them to smithereens by dropping hydrogen bombs into said volcanoes.

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