NSFW – Fatback Media

Reports are coming that American Idol Top 3 Finalist Katharine McPhee may be a Scientologist. Apparently, someone named Katharine McPhee is a Scientogist in her home town of Sherman Oaks but no one has confirmed that the two are one and the same.

[A]ccording to the watchdog Web site truthaboutscientology.com! They claim that a “Katharine McPhee” was listed in a December 2005 issue of Celebrity — the magazine of the Church’s Celebrity Centre International in Los Angeles — as having previously completed their Purification Rundown Procedure and Overcoming Ups and Downs In Life Course.

According to the Web site, “When Scientologists complete a course… their names are typically listed in [the magazine].” And the controversial church — established by the late sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard — has raised many eyebrows within the mainstream medical community over its Purification Rundown Procedure, in which an individual ingests cooking oil and massive doses of niacin while sitting in a sauna for extended periods, in order to break down “the biochemical barrier to spiritual gain.”(source)

I don’t know much about Scientology but I have heard that it was created by L Ron Hubbard from his Dianetics book, and the basic tenets are that most of our problems are caused by the spirits of space aliens clinging to our bodies. I remember when I was kid, Dianetics advertising was everywhere. Posters, tv ads, radio, magazines. Then, when that creepy carnival finally left town in the middle of that big storm all the ads disappeared… along with 129 of our townsfolk.