So Kabbalah is ahead in the battle of the celebrity-favorite cults this week. Cult News reports that illiterate Victoria Beckham has been wearing a red string on her left hand, the Kaballah talisman that supposed to ward off the evil eye. (A red string on the right hand is a symbol of anorexic pride, and given Posh’s stick-thin figure and low level of intelligence, it is possible that she simply confused the two.) This means that she may have picked Madonna’s cult Kaballah over Tom Cruise’s cult Scientology, which she was supposed to be considering based on her friendship with Katie Holmes.

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Cindy Adams reports in The NY Post that Lindsay Lohan is also wearing a red string. We pointed out that she had a Kaballah string on at the GM fashion show at the beginning of March. It is indeed not a one-time thing and she mentions to Adams that’s she’s clinging to anything in order to get some sanity:

There are much healthier, safer things to get you through the day Lindsay. Exercise, music, even an occasional drink for one. You’re better off with a hangover and some embarassing pictures than getting involved with the Kabbalah cult.

In terms of Posh’s choice, she may have picked the lesser of two very real evils.

Everyone’s waiting with baited breath for the arrival of the heir to the Scientology throne. While no one seems to know Katie’s exact due date, it could be any day now. First babies are often late, so we could be waiting another week or two. My son was born nearly two weeks after his due date.

TMZ has a video of Tom solo at his son Connor’s little league game in Beverly Hills on Saturday. He is surrounded by paparrazi and handles it well. When asked if he has picked out a name for the baby yet, he says “yeah, absolutely.”

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Katie Holmes was photographed going for a walk in Beverly Hills last night after her baby shower at the Scientology Center earlier that day. She was walking with her mother and Tom’s mother and told a photographer that her baby shower was “Lovely.”

An unsubstantiated report that Katie gave birth in Toledo, OH on Friday shows the press’ obsession with the pregnant star. The media is now said to be on “baby alert” and is anxiously awaiting the newborn that the cult of Scientology likens to the second coming.

You know the Scientologists did some freaky initiation rite for Tom’s spawn at her “baby shower.” We just hope that the poor thing isn’t traumatized for life after it’s left alone for a day then cared for by the brainwashed automatons for the first three days of its life. It’s probably a lot easier to stay silent during childbirth than it is to hand over your newborn.

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We have no clue if Independence Day has some significance to the cult of Scientology, although the movie of the same name certainly has some parallels with their belief system. Rumor has it that Tom and Katie plan to get married on the Fourth of July according to the magazines Celebrity Living and Star:

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about upcoming wedding plans for the two, so take this for the rumor that is is. We are still waiting for news of Tom’s ex, Nicole Kidman’s supposed upcoming wedding to Keith Urban. It is a smidgen more substantial now that two gossip rags have jumped on the news.

Here are pictures of Katie and Tom out last night.

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I wanted to write another story about how disgusted I am at the way the Scientologists treat little babies, but there’s a lot more going on, so here’s a recap of all the craziness that’s been happening with Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, and their cult religion.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes visited the Yahoo! Sunnydale, CA campus yesterday for no clear reason except publicity. Gambling site 911daily, which is taking bets on the fetus’ name, has an insider’s view of the proceedings. Tom actually did jump on a couch, arm wrestled Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, and said that Katie was having his “third child” in a “few weeks.” Tom flew himself to the event, and was 45 minutes late due to the weather. He jumped in a Ducati off the tarmac and ran through the Yahoo! campus to get to the event. Katie came in separately.

Meanwhile blogs are buzzing that Yahoo! staffers see Cruise’s visit as a lame attempt by Yahoo! to go Hollywood.

Cruise is being lambasted for his role as the most visible spokesperson for the cult of Scientology. A new ad claims that a woman was stabbed to death by her schizophrenic son because he was treated with vitamins instead of psychiatric drugs in accordance with the church’s belief system.

Tom Cruise stopped a re-airing of the infamous “Trapped in the Closet” episode of South Park on Comedy Central by telling parent company Viacom that he wouldn’t promote Mission Impossible III if it was shown. The episode makes fun of Cruise’s cult religion, Scientology, and suggests that the actor is gay. You can watch it here. Isaac Hayes, who plays chef, recently quit the show after the same episode offended his cult sensibility.

For their part, Comedy Central said that they pulled the episode because they wanted to pay tribute to Chef with different episodes that feature Hayes.

Meanwhile Cult News reports that Cruise may have his wide-eyed paramour, Katie Holmes, give birth on a boat or in a Scientology compound so he has maximum control over the event. Scientology edicts require the mother to stay silent during the birth and stipulate that the baby should be left alone for a day and removed from the mother for three days after birth. Katie is said to be resisting the separation from her newborn. She is due in a month or two.

Here are pictures of the two at the World Baseball Classic in Angel Stadium last night.

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Five more pictures after the jump.

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No wonder they’re fighing so much. The Enquirer is set to report that Tom and Katie got married in a tripped-out Scientology ceremony at sea eight months ago:

Katie’s family was not there, and of course Tom’s rep is denying it.

They were married in some freaky ritual. Now when they break up all of Katie’s thetans will come back to torment her with their memories of mass extinction and she’ll never achieve a state of clarity like Tom Cruise.

Cult expert Rick Ross reports that Katie Holmes’ friendship with Victoria Beckham is not all that it seems, and that Tom and Katie have been working together to recruit the Beckhams into Scientology:

The Beckhams certainly are dumb enough to get recruited into Scientology, and it would not be surprising if they converted.

It’s amazing how many celebrities get recruited into dangerous and expensive cults. Other celebrities involved in Scientology include Kelly Preston, John Travolta, Juliette Lewis, Kirstie Alley, Jason Lee, and musician Beck.

Katie is due to give birth in a month or two depending on who you believe. Life and Style, not known for accuracy, reported twice in mid-February that the two had split. Cruise threatened to sue over the story, but did not follow through.

The Razzies were announced today, and Paris has won!

Other lucky winners included:
Worst Actor: Rob Schneider – Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Worst Supporting Actor: Hayden Christensen – Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Worst Actress: Jenny McCarthy – Dirty Love
Worst Screen Couple: Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman – Bewitched
Worst Sequel: Son of the Mask
Worst Picture: Dirty Love
Worst Director: John Mallory Asher (McCarthy’s ex husband) – Dirty Love

And a new category was announced: “most tiresome”

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes deservedly took home the “most tiresome” Razzie.

In case you haven’t heard of the worst picture, Jenny McCarthy’s “Dirty Love,” don’t worry, no one else has heard of it, either:

In yet another disturbing chapter of the TomKat saga, Mike Wallace of the National Enquirer reports that Scientologists plan to commandeer Katie’s baby for three days after its birth. What’s more, the baby will be isolated for a day after it’s born. Despite reports that she’s spending 8 hours a day being indoctrinated into Scientology, Katie has come to her senses and is questioning this counter-intuitive practice:

Any human who’s not brainwashed would agree that it’s harmful and cruel to leave a newborn baby alone at any time, especially on its first day in the world. It’s also quite difficult, if not impossible, to breastfeed if you don’t start up within the first three days after birth. This is wrong for so many reasons.

Scientology is a cult that ruins lives, even the most vulnerable ones, to rake in big bucks.