As rumors have it, Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise because she was afraid he was going to push some major Scientology voodoo on their 6-year-old daughter Suri. Apparently Tom was ready to pack the little gal up and ship her out to a crazy, militant brainwashing-esque group called Sea Organization. That may've been the final kick in Katie's butt to get her the hell outta Dodge.
As expected, most people are ecstatic for Katie and continue to bash Tom and his science-fiction-author-created "religion." I'm certainly no fan of Scientology. And if all the rumors are true, I hope the cult gets shut down for good. I'm also not a huge fan of Tom Cruise, though he does make some good movies. But unlike the majority of people embracing Katie these days, I've got to throw my supportive hat into Tom's ring.
Why? Simple. Katie knew what she was getting into. She knew Tom was extremely into Scientology. She knew he divorced Nicole Kidman and the baggage involved there. So why is she suddenly grabbing Tom's daughter and running now?
You can easily equate the whole situation to a mixed marriage. I'm not talking about skin color here, but religion. When someone Jewish marries someone Catholic, there's bound to be some friction down the line when kids come into the picture. Your choices are either to raise your kids under both religions or pick one from the onset.
Many times, parents will put off the religion discussion. "We'll figure it out when the kids are older," they'll say. And when the kids are older, that's when the disagreements start and things get ugly.
Is it fair to put your child in the middle of your and your spouse's religious war? Absolutely not. So talk it out before you even get married. You may only be thinking of yourself at that moment, but if you have strong religious beliefs to start with, then you need to think of your future kids.
In other words, don't be selfish. Yes you're in love and want to spend the rest of your life with this person, but if you have such differences of opinions on something like religion, it's only going to lead to heartache later on. You might as well just adopt a kid on your own in that case and not even bother with the whole marriage thing.
If nothing else, Tom Cruise has never kept his religious beliefs secret. If Katie disagreed with them from the onset, she never should have married Tom.
Do you think you should decide what religion you're going to raise your kids before you get married?
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Also I don't think exposing your children to religion at a young age is brainwashing. I read stories to the children from the Bible almost every night and teach them about God. Although I don't attend church I don't worry about them being religious but spiritual.
Hindsight sure is 20/20, isn't it? So are the 'should have, could have, would have's of life. But, it's so easy to say these things, especially when one is in the mindset of the stable, satisfactorily married individual. Whether it was indeed idol wprship, or just plain old falling head over heels, surely we haven't forgotten what it's like to initially fall in love with someone: You feel high-invincible even, and then somewhere down the road, well int othe actual marriage if you're lucky, and despite a plethora of talks and planning and hypothetical future compromises, life and reality set in. Not just for the 'mixed' marrieds, but for all of us. People change, sometimes they grow apart, and all of the things you adored and thought love would conquer turn out to drive you insane and fail. It happens to the best of us. It happens to all of us at times, any religious differences aside. I often feel that as people, we are too quick to declare 'choice, choice, choice' while being comfortably disassociated from any of the strong feelings and circumstance involved in any given situation!
Kattie said before she worshiped him and as kid always dreamed of marrying him, so when the time came she jumped at the chance with no idea that he was a total looser.
Its called Love Goggles. She was love struck.... Then a few years go by and she finally woke up!
If any of you b---hing about her have ever been duped into a bad relationship the time to tear the one duped is when they don't leave ever and just stay for the kids or any other stupid excuse they come up with!
This is for all those women who do leave!
GOOD FOR YOU KATIE!
He is the type who is charming and able to manipulate people to bend to his will, how else did he keep getting movies he is not that great of an actor really. He is okay but not one of the greats.
We may not agree who the really great actors are but we can agree he is not at the top of that list not even close.
She woke up celebrate that Focus on the now. She made a huge mistake but if she was never with him Suri would not exist.
So next time you think to berate her for being with him at all think of the child and then if you still feel like putting her down slap yourself for me okay.
she knew what she was getting into? there is a thing called lies a deception, how do you know she knew everything about scientology before she married Tom, they are a brainwashing cult, im glad shes getting out of there
Whey is everyone assuming Katie DIDN"T have this discussion with Tom? It's very likely that she did and he may have made promises or implied things that Katie is now finding out he never had any intention of honoring. If you listen to Tom talk, he paints Scientology to be some sort of a Utopia and his fanaticism has gotten maniacally worse over the years. Katie didn't just fall in love with tom - he decided he wanted her, too, and I DO NOT put it past him to have painted their future together in such a way as to make it appealing to her to entice her to marry him. Tom is a control freak and what I find absolutely disgusting is to read the posts here that are blaming the one being controlled - Katie - and siding with the controller.