Tom Cruise

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , more commonly known as Tom Cruise, is a well-known American movie actor, who is sadly known more famously for being a nutty Scientologist.
According to biographers, he is the second most powerful member of the Church of Scientology.Cruise is second most powerful Scientologist, Morton book claims, The IndependentHow Scientology Seduced Tom Cruise, The Hollywood Reporter The head of the church, David Miscavige, has compared Cruise to Jesus Christ, and believes that Cruise will spread the gospel of L. Ron Hubbard all over the world.This is the closest to a "real" source for this. But their "source" is an unnamed person quoted in The Sun.
==Cruise vs. sanity==
Cruise has been a very outspoken critic of reality and the use of proven medications in the treatment of certain mental illnesses. This is not surprising, since the dogma of Scientology is that mental disorders are actually caused by alien souls sucking your life force rather than chemical imbalances. The battle came to a head when Cruise criticized actress Brooke Shields over her use of antidepressants to treat postpartum depression and initiated a highly publicized spat. Another big moment in Cruise's crusade was when he got into a fight with Matt Lauer on a Today show interview.In tense moment, Cruise calls Lauer "glib," War of the Worlds star assaults psychiatry, says he's "really happy", MSNBC
==Scientology promotional video==
In January 2008, a video was leaked on the internet that included edited portions of an acceptance speech Cruise gave in 2004 when receiving the Freedom Medal from the International Association of Scientologists.Cruise Scientology video leaked, BBC The video was published on YouTube, but was taken down after only a few hours due to legal threats and a copyright claim by the Church of Scientology. The church also forced several other websites to pull the video. Gawker.com has to date refused to pull the video, despite threats of a lawsuit by the church.Scientology Writes; Gawker Rises, The New York Times
The video clearly fits into fair use criteria, and RationalWiki stands in solidarity with other sites who are hosting the video. Here is the video as it originally appeared on YouTube.
===Transcript===
For those who wish to examine his wisdom at length, read this:Shamelessly copy/pasted, from here, then edited for accuracy/clarity. The RW user who edited the transcript on this page watched the same version of the video.
==Additional bullshit==
*When Jack Nicholson's character in A Few Good Men, a movie about extrajudicial punishment in the US Marines, told Cruise's character, "You can't handle the truth!" it may have been out-of-character.
*Cruise appeared as the main character in the Stanley Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut, which depicts a man's discovery of a secret society devoted to sex and swinging as a caricature of 
*Cruise appeared as the protagonist in Minority Report, a film based on a short story by Philip K. Dick about causality and prophecy when used in law enforcement.
*Cruise was married to Katie Holmes, whom he prevented from reprising her role in the Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight as Bruce Wayne's childhood friend/love interest. Fans were stuck with Maggie Gyllenhall in the same role — the character dies, meaning we won't have to deal with that nonsense again.
==External links==
*Tom Cruise's official website
*Tom Cruise on IMDb
*Tom Cruise on TV Tropes
==References==
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