BILL MAHER Makes a Mockery of Scientology

Bill Maher is on his soapbox - looking like a lunatic - and holding court in London's Hyde Park.
A crowd forms around the American talk show host - who is disguised in glasses and a funny hat as he preaches that aliens have infected our souls - and only Scientology provides the cure of removing them.

"Xenu brought aliens here 75 million years ago, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with H-bombs. You have to rid yourself of the implants from the extraterrestrial dictators" he tells his audience.
Scientologists teach that these alien ghosts are responsible for all of our fears, anxieties, depression, mental illnesses and many other diseases (including epilepsy and cancer).
Maher says, imploring folks to use an e-meter, Scientology's primary tool, to measure their alien ghost (or Thetan) levels and determine the extent of their alien infection.

This scene appears in Maher's new documentary, "Religulous," and it prompted roars of laughter from an audience at a screening last month.
The title of the documentary is a mixture of "religious" and "ridiculous" and it takes a shot at all religions.
However, Scientology receives the greatest contempt and Maher's comedic routine in Hyde Park was eminently successful at taking a shot at the 55-year-old religion - often called a cult -- that's turned Tom Cruise into such a weirdo.

Comedian, Politician and self-acclaimed aetheist, Maher concludes, "Jesus with the virgin birth and dove and snake who talks in a garden -- that's cool.”
"But the Scientologists, they're the crazy ones - and what better way to discredit something than to make belief in it laughable?”