{"id":1785,"date":"2008-03-19T11:42:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T11:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/03\/will-smith-still-not-a-sciento.html"},"modified":"2008-03-19T11:42:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T11:42:43","slug":"will-smith-still-not-a-sciento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/03\/will-smith-still-not-a-sciento.html","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith: Still Not a Scientologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"willsmithpic.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/willsmithpic.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"217\" style=\"float:right;margin: 5px\">It seems more and more of the media are no longer afraid to take shots at Scientology and the celebs who may or may not be a part of their flock. The latest expose of the cult&#8211;and it seems like there is one every week now&#8211;will hit newsstands next week as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/23664621\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Radar<\/i> magazine <\/a>makes the allegations that Scientology is targeting African-American celebrities such as Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWill Smith continues to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/gossip\/2008\/03\/18\/2008-03-18_will_smith_and_jada_dont_know_much_scien.html\" target=\"_blank\">deny the rumors<\/a> that due to his close relationship with Tom Cruise he is becoming  more interested in Scientology. He argues that one doesn&#8217;t have to be a Jew to &#8220;be a friend of  Steven Spielberg&#8217;s&#8221; and that he still is a Christian. In fact, he has said this numerous times in several interviews, as if he&#8217;s worried someone might not believe him.<br \/>\nWhile reading up on all the religions&#8211;something <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/11\/will-smiths.html\" target=\"_blank\">Smith has claimed to do<\/a>&#8211;he might also want to hone up on his Shakespeare because me thinks perhaps the movie star doth protest a little too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems more and more of the media are no longer afraid to take shots at Scientology and the celebs who may or may not be a part of their flock. The latest expose of the cult&#8211;and it seems like there is one every week now&#8211;will hit newsstands next week as Radar magazine makes the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scientology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Will Smith: Still Not a Scientologist<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/03\/will-smith-still-not-a-sciento.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Will Smith: Still Not a Scientologist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It seems more and more of the media are no longer afraid to take shots at Scientology and the celebs who may or may not be a part of their flock. 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