Tom Cruise accepted some Scientologist of the Year award from the cult and went off! The video has already been pulled, but here is a transcript...
Tom Cruise: "It’s a Privilege to Call Yourself a Scientologist" Tom Cruise isn't
shy about his commitment to Scientology – Katie Holmes reportedly signed a
contract to guarantee her faith before their marriage and his children are
raised as Scientologists – but a video that surfaced online has revealed the
true extent of his beliefs.The clip, hosted on YouTube and Google Video,
featured a 9-minute speech by Cruise as the actor recently accepted the Freedom
Medal of Valor award at an International Association of Scientologists event.Tom Cruise: ...I think it’s a privilege to call yourself a
Scientologist, and it’s something that you have to earn because a Scientologist
does... has the ability to create new and better realities and improve
conditions. Being a Scientologist, you look at someone and know absolutely that
you can help them."Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident... you
know you have to do something about it because you know you’re the only one that
can really help."But that’s what drives me... I know that we have an opportunity
to really help... effectively change people’s lives and I am dedicated to that.
I am absolutely, uncompromisingly dedicated to that."We have a
responsibility."We are the authorities on getting people off drugs, we are the
authorities on the mind, we are the authorities on improving conditions... we
can rehabilitate criminals."...We can bring peace and unite
cultures..."Traveling the world and meeting the people that I’ve met, talking
with these leaders in various fields, they want help and they are depending on
people who know and who can be effective and do it and that’s us. That is our
responsibility to do that."It is the time now. Now is the time... Being a
Scientologist, people are turning to you, so you better know it, you better know
it and if you don’t, go and learn it, but don’t pretend you know it. It’s like
we’re here to help."If you’re a Scientologist, you see life, you see things the
way they are, in all its glory, all of its complexity and the more you know as a
Scientologist, you don’t become overwhelmed by it."Look, I wish the world was a
different place. I’d like to go on vacation and go and romp and play and just do
that, you know what I mean. That’s what I want it to be. There’s times I’d like
to do that, but I can’t because I know I have to do something about it."I have
to do it because I can’t live with myself if I don’t, and that really is it."So
it’s our responsibility to educate, create the new reality. We have that
responsibility to say, 'Hey, this is the way it should be done because we do it
this way and people are actually getting better.'"And let’s get it done. Let’s
really get it done and have enough love and compassion and toughness that you’re
really going to do it and do it right."I have to tell you something – it is
rough and tumble, and it’s wild and wooly, and it’s a blast, it’s a blast, it
really is fun because, dammit, there is nothing better than the going out there
and fighting the fight and suddenly you see things are better."I want to know
that I’ve done everything I could everyday, and I think about those people out
there who are depending on us. I think about that and it does make me feel that
we’ve got more work. I need more help, get those spectators either in the
playing field or out of the arena. Really, that’s how I feel about it."I do what
I can, and I do it the way I do everything. [laughs] There’s nothing part-of-the
way for me."
Except for the way I pretend to like girls...
