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Latin performer Jennifer Lopez believes the Church of Scientology is not at all shady and would even send her kids to Scientology school.

“I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It’s very helpful. So in a sense, yeah, you do call on it,” Lopez says.

This isn’t really surprising coming from her, who’s friends with Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, and John Travolta.

Some people find the religion strange, what with Scientology bits like psychiatrists deliberately destroying other people’s minds, curing heroin addiction with a weekend-long program, and being able to read complex emotions using a homemade sensor and a battery.

There’s also the theory on Martian warlords tossed into volcano scores of years ago and their fragments causing negative sensations in humans. An issue that hasn’t been brought up of late.

Anyway, the newly-minted triathlete talked about the wonders of Scientology in an interview posted at The Daily Beast. Here’s an excerpt:

Q: Do you consider yourself a Scientologist?

JL: No…I wouldn't have a problem saying [I was] because I know what it is. I have no problems with it and it really actually bothers me that people have such a negative feeling towards it.

Q: That it is too exotic? Too cultish?

JL: Just negative feelings.

Q: Would you consider schooling Emme and Max in a Scientology school?

JL: Yeah. I wouldn’t mind. Not at all. Because I know that the technologies that they have are very helpful…It’s all about communication. That’s the thing I really don’t like about talking about this. I do know so many great people who do do it, who choose it as a lifestyle and really follow it and it is their religion…I just wish that people wouldn’t judge it without knowing what it is.

Ho-hum. Okay.