Excerpt from an interview in Germany's Spiegel magazine:

SPIEGEL: Do you see it as your job to recruit new followers for Scientology?

Tom Cruise: I'm a helper. For instance, I myself have helped hundreds of people get off drugs. In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It's called Narconon.

SPIEGEL: That's not correct. Yours is never mentioned among the recognized detox programs. Independent experts warn against it because it is rooted in pseudoscience.

Cruise: You don't understand what I am saying. It's a statistically proven fact that there is only one successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. Period.

SPIEGEL: With all due respect, we doubt that.

I know mocking Scientology hasn't been popular since we all stopped visiting Something Awful, in fact, I think we've reached the point where everyone who's going to be convinced that it's crazy has been convinced, and everyone else is committed to the nonsense.

Still, it's nice to see an unjustified belief come up against old-fashioned (and no, not that kind of old-fashioned) German common sense.

"Do you mock religion?" asked theSpark.com, once.