{"id":2261,"date":"2008-09-17T11:44:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T11:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/09\/will-smith-denies-scientology.html"},"modified":"2008-09-17T11:44:22","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T11:44:22","slug":"will-smith-denies-scientology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/09\/will-smith-denies-scientology.html","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith Denies Scientology Involvement&#8211;Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"willsmithpicforic.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/imgs\/willsmithpicforic.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"191\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>My fellow Idol Chatter bloggers and I have written before about how we believe Will Smith doth protest too much that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/07\/is-will-smith-a-scientologist.html\" target=\"_blank\">he is not involved in Scientology<\/a>.  I have even questioned Smith&#8217;s claims that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/11\/will-smiths.html#more\" target=\"_blank\">all religions are basically the same<\/a>&#8212; including Scientology.<br \/>\nWell, Smith is denying his involvement in Scientology yet again&#8211;this time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/09\/16\/will-smith-i-am-not-a-sci_n_126826.html\" target=\"_blank\">to Fox News,<\/a>  in regards to questions about using some of Scientology&#8217;s curriculum in the school he and his wife have recently founded. Though Smith denied his involvement in Scientology to the reporter, Smith then admitted the school is using bits and pieces of the controversial lesson plans but not everything , explaining &#8220;You can take different parts of things you like and put them all together.&#8221;<br \/>\nCertainly that is true to a degree if there is at least some common thread among the parts you are piecing together, but Scientology&#8217;s  &#8220;stuffy technology&#8221; educational methods have about as much in common with traditional methods of pedagogy as I have things in common with, I don&#8217;t know, overpaid A-list celebrities.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/person\/will-smith\/11168\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/person\/will-smith\/11168\/351x85_belief.gif\" alt=\"Will-Smith at LocateTV.com\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My fellow Idol Chatter bloggers and I have written before about how we believe Will Smith doth protest too much that he is not involved in Scientology. I have even questioned Smith&#8217;s claims that all religions are basically the same&#8212; including Scientology. Well, Smith is denying his involvement in Scientology yet again&#8211;this time to Fox&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":[6,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-entertainment","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 Denies Scientology Involvement--Again<\/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\/09\/will-smith-denies-scientology.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Will Smith Denies Scientology Involvement--Again\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My fellow Idol Chatter bloggers and I have written before about how we believe Will Smith doth protest too much that he is not involved in Scientology. 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