This just illustrates how wacked the church of scientology is, in my opinion.

Tom Cruise:  The new “Christ” of Scientology

TOM Cruise is the new “Christ” of Scientology, according to leaders of the cult-like religion.

The Mission: Impossible star has been told he has been “chosen” to spread the word of his faith throughout the world.

And leader David Miscavige believes that in future, Cruise, 44, will be worshipped like Jesus for his work to raise awareness of the religion.

A source close to the actor, who has risen to one of the church’s top levels, said: “Tom has been told he is Scientology’s Christ-like figure.

“Like Christ, he’s been criticised for his views. But future generations will realise he was right.”

Cruise joined the Church of Scientology in the ’80s. Leader L Ron Hubbard claimed humans bear traces of an ancient alien civilisation.

This actually echoes something from last spring:

Tom Cruise Either Losing Popularity Or New Jesus Christ

A USA Today/Gallup poll showing that Tom Cruise’s "favorability rating" had tumbled 23 points since last year has induced some of the actor’s best pals to scramble to his defense:

"He spent years not speaking about his private life, not discussing his Scientology beliefs and was criticized for that. He made the decision to talk about such topics, and now he is prodded into saying certain things. He answers the questions put to him." –Paula Wagner, Cruise’s longtime production partner

But opinions of people with a significant stake in Cruise’s continuing popularity notwithstanding, the superstar’s trip to screen M:i:III for a contest winner in Aberdeen, Washington offers something of a conflicting view on the erosion of the actor’s standing with fans. Sure, there was a smattering of sullen, flannel-clad suppressives present at the event, but according to this Seattle Times report, they seemed outnumbered by those who looked to Cruise to "put us on the map," or in a slightly more optimistic case, deliver unto them the promise of eternal life:

Standing nearby, Ginny Thompson, 37, had taken the day off from the Sears store in the mall, hoping to get a Cruise autograph in her collector’s edition of People Magazine’s "100 Greatest Movie Stars of Our Time."

She said she knows the meaning of Cruise’s visit. She said it will stop Aberdeen from being a dying town. That’s been a worry here for a decade, at least, since the collapse of the timber industry and lingering unemployment problems.

"There’s a lot of poverty here," she said.

How will Cruise fix that?

"Look, you’re here from Seattle, right?" she said to a visitor. "This will put us on the map." [...]

But would an argument — though certainly good-natured — break out at a downtown store about the significance of a Hollywood visitor to Seattle?

It happened here Tuesday in the Salvation Army store in the threadbare downtown.

"I had to tell my niece to stop obsessing about Tom Cruise," said Laura Eaton, 25, a clerk at the store. "I’m trying to get into her head that Tom Cruise is not God."

While the question of whether or not the star is actually God is probably the most hotly debated topic at the Celebrity Centre’s in-house vitamin cafe, the fact that it’s on the table–no matter how unfairly, deceptively, and facetiously pullquoted here–up in Aberdeen leads us to believe that America’s love affair with one Tom Cruise is not quite over, USAToday/Gallup poll be damned.

Honestly it’s hard to know where to begin on this.

To be fair, this is not Cruise claiming to be Christ, this is other people talking, so this is not necessarily a slam against him.  Now if he believes it himself, then that is problematic.

This could just as easily be typical hollywierd idol worship, with a twist.

But on the other hand, Cruise acts pretty high and mighty and I searched and found no sign of a denial.

Does the Cruise-master had a God complex? I doubt it.  He is a fruitcake, but a mortal one.

Of course not all see him as a prophet….

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes slated to birth Anti-Christ

Tom Cruise, recently appointed head of United Artists, and new bride Katie Holms have been penned in as the stars of their second biological reproduction, "Birth of the Anti-Christ".

Cruise is reported to be very proud to be cast in the role of a parent spurning progeny for the purpose of ultimate evil. Katie chimed in, "we didn’t want to take a chance with our first child being deemed the sword of terror, it’s so much pressure."

Cruise hopes production can be wrapped up within nine months and they can "put all this pregnancy stuff behind them."

Tom hoped that if he and Holmes fail to breed the son of Satan, they preferred their offspring would perhaps be L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, reincarnated.

L Ron Hubbard never had a chance to write the sequel to ‘Battle Field Earth’. Mr Cruise feels the property is prefect for UA and offered to option the work as soon as it’s confirmed they’re son is in fact L Ron raised from the dead.

The Scientology community refused to comment about the developments.

<I pause for shocked outrage…>

Oh get over it people…it’s just satire…

Once again the answer to any question about Tom Cruise is "who cares?"