5) Beck

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I remember being particularly disappointed when I found out Beck was into Scientology, I always thought he was a pretty cool dude. It wasn’t entirely his fault though, he was born into a family of Scientologists and married a second generation Scientologist, so he was bound to have a soft spot for it I guess.

In 2007, Beck achieved the level of “Clear,” which apparently means his mind no longer reacts the same way to negative life circumstances and he’s now impervious to psychosomatic disorders. Lucky boy. Here’s what he had to say on the matter in 2005:

What it actually is is just sort of, uh, you know, I think it’s about philosophy and sort of, uh, all these kinds of, you know, ideals that are common to a lot of religions…. There’s nothing fantastical … just a real deep grassroots concerted effort for humanitarian causes. I don’t know if you know the stuff they have. It’s unbelievable the stuff they are doing. Education … they have free centres all over the place for poor kids. They have the number one drug rehabilitation programme in the entire world (called Narconon). It has a 90-something percent success rate…. When you look at the actual facts and not what’s conjured in people’s minds that’s all bullshit to me because I’ve actually seen stuff first hand.

Yeah. But what about the aliens and all that? Hmmm?