German Church slams Tom Cruise & Scientology

A leading German church and Tom Cruise are rowing over his upcoming film,‘Valkyrie’. The protestant church compared Tom Cruise to a Nazi propaganda minister named Joseph Goebbels, and branded him "Lucifer" The church accuses the pint-sized actor of using his fame to promote the highly controversial cult Scientology.

Tom is filming his new movie, ‘Valkyrie,’ in Germany, it tells the true story of Col. Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg and how he plotted, but failed, to kill Adolf Hitler. Thomas Gandow, a chief spokesman on religious cults, called Scientology a “totalitarian organization.” He added that Cruise was “the Goebbels of Scientology.”

Gandow also accused Cruise of using the film as propaganda for Scientology. Cruise adamantly denies that he is using the film as propaganda.

Tom Cruise’s spokeswoman is striking back by issuing a statement to MSNBC’s The Scoop saying, “Mr. Gandow’s comments are both irresponsible and wrongheaded. ‘Valkyrie’ has nothing to do with Scientology. It is a historically accurate thriller developed by Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie that presents the World War II resistance hero Col. Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg as the heroic and principled figure he was. To attempt to smear such a movie by comparing it to Nazi propaganda flies in the face of reason and logic – and even worse, it belittles the enormity of the Nazi crimes.”