If you live in Southern California, you know there are some wonderful traditions that help define the calendar.
One of them is not the Hollywood Christmas Parade. Cheesy and lame, this embarrassment of a holiday procession is an afterthought even in Tinseltown.
But Scientology rarely misses an opportunity to be a part of the event, and it didn’t disappoint this year. Thankfully, one of our helpful far-flung correspondents was on the scene and snapped a couple of photos for us.
We received a couple of snapshots of the float from one of Scientology’s front groups, The Way to Happiness Foundation, which distributes bazillions of copies of a small 1980 pamphlet put out by L. Ron Hubbard which rips off basic ideas of human decency already published elsewhere for an unremarkable set of forgettable platitudes. But look at this float!
Our correspondent also happened to notice yet another sign of Scientology’s contraction: a forlorn-looking Dianetics bookstore with a For Lease sign on it…
Awwww. Maybe Santa will turn things around and bring Scientology some new members this year!
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Posted by Tony Ortega on December 2, 2013 at 07:00
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