New Religions? New Gods?

(Posted on behalf of Marissa Battle)

UFO enthusiasts have a pretty bad rap. Most people think their ideas are too out there to believe- how
could there be these alternate beings surrounding us without having any true sightings or interactions? In theory it makes sense. Isn’t God also an alternate being surrounding us, and do we not also lack any provable evidence of his existence? In Intelligent Design, all the basic bases are covered. Why no one else had the same interaction, why we cannot see these beings, why they are here, our creation story. The most interesting was the biblical interpretation, going verse by verse explaining how each line is meant to tell the origin of life on earth through alien DNA experimentation. For the most part, in his context, I could place most of it into context. However, some of it was still a stretch to me. The bible, Rael believes, is meant to try and explain the history of how mankind and all living things on earth were made in succession. Adding the known history of the bible to the mix, there are a good many reasons supporting is claims. The origin of the words for Elohim and God, Jerusalem being the first major establishment, the Garden of Eden being where the best scientists made the most beautiful creatures, and also how we as experiments were angry at our creators for not giving us full knowledge. Even Lucifer as a fallen angel can be explained by the scientist who gave the knowledge in the first place. Looking at the bigger picture, many of the claims made by Rael are no more far-fetched than believing that there in a singular omnipotent omnipresent God who created all and rules over all. Could it be that the only reason this ladder notion is not construed and ridiculed by popular culture, as is belief in extraterrestrials, is because it is simply not popular culture? Let us say for a moment that Rael is correct, and that the majority of the world is wrong in its beliefs. One day, an encounter happens just as Rael describes, but instead of only one man as a witness, let us say that it was a whole city, or even a worldwide broadcast. What is the popular belief now? Who is actually God? Let us consider another hypothetical situation where Rael’s beliefs are the more widely celebrated traditions on the planet. Would not the minority who believes in a singular all powerful being not be ridiculed and chastised for believing something so outrageous and far-fetched?