{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Battlefield Earth (2000)","description":"This infamous sci-fi film is perhaps the church of Scientology\u2019s biggest attempt to ingratiate itself with mainstream culture. BATTLEFIELD EARTH is based on a novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, whose end goal was to adapt this book into a Hollywood film. Hubbard made an attempt in the mid-1980s to produce the adaptation himself, but it failed, and Hubbard died in 1986. Hubbard had hinted to John Travolta, a prominent Scientologist, that Hubbard would have liked Travolta to star in the film. Travolta took it upon himself to bring BATTLEFIELD EARTH to life in the mid-90s, eventually co-producing and starring as Terl, the dreadlocked 9-foot-tall antagonist of the film. Travolta\u2019s character Terl is a \u201cPsychlo\u201d, a colonial race of humanoid aliens on a universe-wide mission to strip less powerful planets of their resources. 3000 years in the future, earth is one of these planets. Johnny Goodboy is a human \u201cman-animal\u201d living like a post apocalyptic caveman and being hunted by the Psychlos. When Terl meets Johnny, Terl enslaves the human, thinking him inferior, but Johnny quickly adapts to Psychlo civilization and reads the historical Declaration of Independence which inspires him to thwart his captors with a daring escape. Although BATTLEFIELD EARTH doesn\u2019t demonstrate much about the Scientologist doctrine, perhaps it proves that Hubbard\u2019s main spiritual goal was aimed at the lowest heights possible \u2014 achieve fame and attention in the Hollywood system.  View our full episode list and subscribe to any of our public feeds: http:\/\/boysbiblestudy.com Unlock 2+ bonus episodes per month: http:\/\/patreon.com\/boysbiblestudy Subscribe to our Twitch for livestreams: http:\/\/twitch.tv\/boysbiblestudy Follow us on Instagram: http:\/\/instagram.com\/boysbiblestudy Follow us on Twitter: http:\/\/twitter.com\/boysbiblestudy ","author_name":"Boys' Bible Study","author_url":"http:\/\/boysbiblestudy.com","html":"