A couple years back, Matt Stone and Trey Parker put together the Trapped in the Closet episode of South Park, which was a pretty damning but ultimately fair portrayal of Scientology, considering their main argument against it is that the purity of one’s soul (or whatever you call it given your chosen religion) shouldn’t depend on how much money you’re willing to pump into your given church. Except the Scientologists threw a huge shitfit and, as it’s now being reported, went so far as to root through their trash to look for incriminating evidence. Good to see they can take a joke. The Village Voice reports:

I asked Rathbun what kind of things OSA’s operatives would be looking for in the trash of Parker and Stone and their friends. “Phone records. Bank records. Personal letters that expose some kind of vulnerability. They’ll read stuff into the kind of alcohol you’re drinking and how much. Prescriptions. They’ll figure out your diet. They can find out a lot about you through your trash,” he told me this morning by phone from his home in South Texas. “You can see that the commanding officer is pissed off and not enough is getting done,” he says about the final lines from the OSA document. But additional documents show that the investigation did get going in a big way, and we’ll have more about that soon.

So basically, Scientology was called out for basing their religion entirely on how much money their members have, because apparently they think God loves rich people more, and then they got upset about it? Lame. This is why I’m happy being an Irish Catholic. Nothing bad ever happened with us! Oh, wait … okay yeah, humanity has a really bad habit of using religious dogma to clumsily disguise their own greed and ambition. Never mind, everyone sucks.