Is the Church of Scientology refusing membership to reporters to avoid potential bad press?

Some lame graffiti vandalism prompts an over-reaction in a small town paper: DEVIL worshippers are feared to have desecrated the Vale Church

Bizarre: A UK University bans a Christian campus group for refusing entry to non-christians.

Christians seeing gnostic conspiracies in Harry Potter. (That's at least a step up from the 'Devil Worship' hysteria..this might have required actual cognition, even!)

Interesting: An Altar of Earth: Reflections on Jews, Goddesses and the Zohar

Thought provoking: The Implications of Frozen Brains on the Afterlife