You can see this in these two other articles of his:
- Electric Cars, Their Grid, and Climate Scientology
- Horse Hockey Climate Scientology: “Getting Rid” of the Medieval Warming Period
"The political right, however, calls Kwanzaa a pseudo-Marxist phoney holiday which has been adopted by public institutions as part of a politically correct assault on the standing of Christmas. "It's the Scientology of holidays," says Erick Erickson, who writes the influential conservative blog Redstate.com."
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You made me look
I think these are references to Hubbard's Scientology -- but they're oblique. It's kind of like the English language use of the proper name Quisling. (I don't know if they do this in Belgian French.) Among English-speakers, a "quisling" is a traitor who collaborates with the enemy. The reference is to a Norwegian army officer who collaborated with the Nazis during their occupation of that country. Likewise, the way these writers have used the word Scientology is a reference to L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology, but with the presumption that all of their readers will understand that Scientology is a ridiculous pseudo-science. I think they're probably presuming too much, actually. I suspect that most people (in the US, at least) don't know enough about Scientology to understand the significance of the reference.
He's using "Scientology" in all his posts, more like getting people's attention.
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