My Irony Meter is at Eleven

I just read this story on USAToday.com about how the Southern Baptists are all in a tizzy about the Scientologists proselytizing in their back yard. Of course, every quote set off my “irony meter.”

The best is from Tal Davis, of the North American Mission Board, the so-called “outreach arm” of the SBC. “Outreach arm” is religio-speak for “proselytizing organ.”

[The Scientology advertising] is sort of a ‘bait and switch’ method. They ask people to take the free test, then use it to tell them that Scientology can help them overcome the problems that the test supposedly revealed. It is a tool simply to get people to buy into the strange, unscientific and unchristian system designed by L. Ron Hubbard. I would recommend that Christians stay away from it.

Let’s see…

Bait and switch? How about telling people your religion is all about peace and love, and that if they’ll read this 2000 year old book, it will tell them just how messed up they are, and how badly they need Jesus to fix them?

The part that really set off the meter was when Davis refers to Scientology as “strange” and “unscientific.” You mean kind of like virgin birth, walking on water, dead people coming back to life, talking animals, et cetera?

I love this little aside: “The SBC lists Scientology as a cult. The Internal Revenue Service lists it as a religion.”

I guess it’s all in how you look at things.

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