Suppress '' is the title of gawker.com 's presentation . `` You have to watch this video , '' the site says . `` It shows Tom Cruise , with all the wide-eyed fervor that he brings to the promotion of a movie , making the argument for Scientology , '' which it calls `` the bizarre 20th-century religion . Watch `` Showbiz Tonight '' discussion of Cruise video '' Cruise talks over a repetitive guitar-riff soundtrack , and appears to be answering questions , though an interviewer is not seen or heard . A second part of the video , made available to CNN by the publisher of a new unauthorized biography of Cruise , shows Cruise accepting Scientology 's Freedom Medal of Valor award and exchanging military-like salutes with Scientology chairman David Miscavige to audience applause . The publisher denies leaking other parts of the video to the Web . In the video by the publisher , Cruise also salutes a portrait of L. Ron Hubbard , cited on the church 's Web site as the founder of `` the only major religion founded in the 20th century . '' Hubbard 's biography cites his accomplishments as everything
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Tom Cruise expounds on his beliefs in Scientology in a 2004 video that made its way onto the Internet this week . Tom Cruise appears with his wife , Katie Holmes , at a movie premiere earlier this month . `` I think it 's a privilege to call yourself a Scientologist , and it 's something you have to earn , '' Cruise says at the beginning of the video . Cruise says he 's `` driven ... by the opportunity to really help , for the first time , change people 's lives . I 'm absolutely , uncompromisingly dedicated to that . '' The video was shown at a 2004 Scientology ceremony honoring Cruise for his humanitarian work . Church of Scientology officials said it can be viewed at any of its churches , but it created a stir this week when what the church calls a pirated and edited version appeared on YouTube . The video has since been taken off YouTube , but an interview portion remained available on the celebrity Web site gawker.com on Thursday . Watch snippets of Cruise video '' `` The Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientology Tried To