Will Smith School of Scientology
Multi-million dollar actor Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett Smith have found a worthy cause in which to invest their gazillions of money – they have just founded a new school for the kids of Los Angeles. It will open this coming school year and it’s called the New Village Academy.
As soon as the news came out, so did rumors that it was going to be a Scientology school! I would buy it. With a name like New Village Academy!
“We are a secular school, and just like all nonreligious independent schools, faculty and staff do not promote their own religions at school or pass on the beliefs of their particular faith to children,” New Village Academy director Jacqueline Olivier told the Los Angeles Times.
Apparently, the school will use instructional methods developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard – it is what he called “study technology” – perhaps the same instructional methods used for his religious efforts?!? Also, a few faculty members in the soon to open school are in fact, belonging to the Church of Scientology. Study technology will be used to teach robotics to the kids.
Wait. What? Robotics in primary school?
Some rumors said that although New Village Academy was not a Scientology school per se, it will teach Scientology to its students as part of the curriculum. We all know that Will Smith is one of the very few “close friends” of outspoken Scientologist Tom Cruise, so ties to the Scientology religion are not so puzzling. Ever since 2005, rumors about Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith being part of the Church of Scientology have never ceased. The couple has denied it over and over again.
But Will Smith did not deny that he has studied multiple religions, including Scientology.
I did my research:
In an interview with Hollywood.com last December of 2006, Will Smith said many complimentary things about different religions, one of which is Scientology. “I just think a lot of the ideas in Scientology are brilliant and revolutionary and non-religious,” he said.
And in a separate interview with Us in November of 2007 the actor said: “Ninety-eight percent of the principles in Scientology are identical to the principles of the Bible… I don’t think that because the word someone uses for spirit is “thetan” that the definition becomes any different.”
He has a point. A very good and obviously well-informed point. But still, he denied having joined the Scientology Church: “I am a Christian. I am a student of all religions, and I respect all people and all paths,” Will said in an interview with MSN just this March. “You don’t have to be Jewish to be a friend of Steven Spielberg. You don’t have to be a Muslim to be a friend of Muhammad Ali. And you don’t have to be a Scientologist to be a friend of Tom Cruise.”
But the couple has made it a point not to keep their fondness of the religion a secret:
After Jada Pinkett Smith made the film “Collateral” with Tom Cruise in 2004, Will and Jada donated $20,000 to HELP, or Hollywood Education and Literacy Program – which happens to be Scientology’s literacy campaign and the basis for the religion’s home-schooling system. The donation was listed in the federal filing for The Will Smith Foundation. Around that same time, the couple’s children have been home-schooled.
After finishing shooting on his latest film “Hancock,” Will Smith gave out “wrapped presents” as a sign of his gratitude for their hard work on the film. Surprise, surprise: the present was a gift card for a Scientology personality test; to be redeemed at any Church of Scientology center. These so-called “personality tests” almost always result in the discovery of a series of previously unknown (albeit normal in us human beings) “personality defects” in the test subject that can be cured by the Church of Scientology. These personality tests are given away for free in their centers.
No matter how you put it, it just speaks for itself. Will Smith first said that after studying many religions, he thinks that a lot of the ideas in Scientology are non-religious. Then he goes and says that 98 percent of the “principles” of Scientology are the same as those of the teachings of the Bible. Then he goes and gives out Scientology personality test cards – if this is not a proof I don’t know what is.
We all know that Tom Cruise is choosy when it comes to his so-called “close friends” – and it happens that Will Smith was one of those chosen few. Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology needs a Will Smith. He has the money, the charisma, and the overall too good to be true personality – something Tom Cruise lost when he went out with Scientology. They need a new Tom and we think Will is it.
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