Why is Tom Cruise having difficuly shooting a movie in Germany about the hero Col. Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, the German Army officer who tried to blow up Hitler toward the end of World War II? “Stauffenberg for Germans is like Jefferson and Lincoln, motherhood, and apple pie all rolled into one. Germany is a country of established churches, and so Scientology is viewed as a cult and, worse, totalitarian and exploitative. A professing Scientologist in the role of Stauffenberg is like casting Judas as Jesus. It is secular blasphemy.”