I found out a little while ago that a guy I knew from my favourite pub here in Shanghai is a scientologist. I was incredulous. The conversation started something like:
Me: "I don't really buy into any religion. I'm more interested in science."
Him: "Me too. I am a scientologist. I believe in science too."
He's Malaysian with English as his second language, so at first I thought it was just a language issue and I felt like I needed to explain to him what scientology is all about so that he wouldn't make an ass of himself saying these to other people in future. After my explaining all the ridiculous bull#### that scientology is he was just like "Yes. That's what I mean. I am a scientologist. I believe in science."
Absolutely blew me away.
Anyone who doesn't know much about scientology should check out
operationclambake for some reading up on what it's all about.