“Scientology: That's too Weird!”

Wired has a story today about Google yanking Anti-Scientology sites from their database due to a threat of a law suit from that church.

Mainly, their story just reminds me of how very evil the DMCA is. Right at the end, though, there's a paragraph about Scientology itself which is downright freaky.

Hubbard's secret scriptures teach that 75 million years ago, an evil galactic overlord named Xenu solved the galaxy's overpopulation problem by freezing excess people and transporting the bodies to Teegeeack, now called Earth. After the hapless travelers were defrosted, they were chained to volcanoes that were blown up by hydrogen bombs -- and their disembodied spirits continue to haunt mankind today.

(The Church of Scientology was founded by L. Ron Hubbard, who's also known for his non-religious science fiction.)