Katie Holmes

[Spinderella]

Suri might take on a role most kids would enjoy — spying on Mom and Dad. “Scientology children, like their parents, are taught to report on one another,” Reitman explains.

Please! Please! Please! Report their asses, Suri!

If she can break free from the church and her parents once she's old enough, I would dye for her tell-all book!

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I don't think the rules apply to Suri or the other Scientology celebrity children. It seems that celebrity Scientologists and non-celebrity Scientologists live entirely different lives.

[azaleaqueen]

Suri will never spill her guts to anyone who isn't a $cieno. She will be so thoroughly brainwashed toward secrecy in their ives that she probablly will be unable to speak to outsiders. It will be a grown-up version of the playmateless world she's in now.

[FiggyPudding]

I think there is a double-standard for celebrities in the cult, but I'm not sure which rules they can ignore. I do believe they adhere to the limits on information they receive and exposure to bad, bad suppressives like us.

As actors, they must employ a whole lot of rationalization when it comes to $cientology's censorship of non-cult views, esp. while they are working with legions of non-clam movie folks. I guess setting up those ridiculous recruiting tents on their movie sets is one way they can get around that.

So yeah, to counterbalance that I'm sure Suri's private time is carefully monitored and screened to weed out the non-believers.

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What the Scienos do might not be all that different from some other devoutly religious people whose views aren't shared with the majority of society in that they "pray" for and look down on those without "the tech."

The Duggars are exposed to a world that doesn't share their beliefs all the time, but they are sure that they are right and the rest of the world is wrong. With a healthy dose of martyrdom and arrogance any form of self-delusion is possible.

[FiggyPudding]

My mother was a born-again Christian, but I had friends of all different religious views and non-religious beliefs and she treated everyone with respect. I like to hear differing views on everything, but hey, that's just me. I can make up my own mind after that.

Suri will probably have more to worry about as the child of fame and money and parents who love to parade her around. Of course this is not really much better than being screwed up by a cult.

[Nysha]

I think Suri is screwed coming and going. She's got immature egotistical parents who think she is an accessory, she's being raised with almost no limits or boundaries, and her parents are deeply involved in an insane cult. Since she will be surrounded by cult members for her entire childhood, there is not going to be any way for her to learn what normal is, let alone escape whatever fate they have for her.

[mochakitty]

Katie at the 2011 MTV VMAs (August 28th, Los Angeles):

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[kostgard]

Gah! Why are her knees bending the wrong way??

Wasn't there some sort of movie where the aliens had legs like that? Like, there was a scene where the good guy knew this human-looking kid was an alien and he revealed himself by popping his knees backwards?

Dude, is Katie really Xenu? Sent here to destroy Scientology through their golden boy (Tom)?

[Spinderella]

Nobody likes you Katie and nobody cares! So you can go away now!

Fug. Fug. Fug.

I can tell she's doing her best to get brownie points for her "style", but she excels in one area and then fails everywhere else. She just can't ever seem to get it right. And she "danced around her seat" when Gaga was performing? Pfft.

I almost want to see footage of that so I can laugh and point.