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Pasulka documents the end of a long cultural shift regarding UFOs, as it moves from a marginal fringe to a major belief system.
...according to Pasulka, UFO beliefs display other classic indicators of religion: sacred sites, sacred revelations, and testimony by credible witnesses to miraculous events.
Pasulka travels to an unnamed site in New Mexico. Accompanying her are Tyler and Pasulka’s own colleague “James,” an astrophysicist at a prestigious university, and not only a UFO believer, but a repeat contactee. (He finds the phenomenon unwelcome, and describes it as something that in earlier times would be called “demonic.”)
The sites in New Mexico function as the sacred sites of a new religion… They are the places of a hierophany, where non-human beings descended to earth
Erich von Dänikan’s Chariot of The Gods gave rise to the cheerfully mendacious Ancient Aliens, which re-interprets almost every major ancient civilization’s religious and cultural legacy as the work of visiting extraterrestrials.
Pasulka’s book makes the argument that the religion of the UFO is also the religion of technology, and it is a convincing one.
Are UFOs Demonic In Nature and Setting The Stage For A Global Deception?
originally posted by: LoveSolMoonDeath
a reply to: shawmanfromny
I humbly suggest you remove religion from the equation la
So you'll have at the very least one less distortion to deal with.
originally posted by: Atsbhct
Just another attempt for Christians to attempt to fit their own fringe beliefs in with their religious beliefs maybe.
originally posted by: Willtell
Sure, this may have something to do with “God” and religion...But we don’t know. Just like we know little about “God”
One thing is for sure, the way these aliens act it is similar to “God” in then sense they don’t tell us nothing.
We only know of the “God” thing through these very distorted and sectarian religions.
Or just like the aliens won’t go to the UN and announce themselves, “God” also has chosen not to announce his reality through anything universally perceived.
originally posted by: Sublimecraft
originally posted by: Atsbhct
Just another attempt for Christians to attempt to fit their own fringe beliefs in with their religious beliefs maybe.
Ahh,I see - WHATEVER YOU DO - don't mention Islam and their end-times outlook and how its virtually indistinguishable from those pesky christians' one.
I didn't pick you as the Intolerant hypocritical hater type, but there you go...
I do take issue with people who spout about things being "demonic", because it's so damaging to people's psyches, and fear-mongering in nature.
originally posted by: Sublimecraft
originally posted by: LoveSolMoonDeath
a reply to: shawmanfromny
I humbly suggest you remove religion from the equation la
So you'll have at the very least one less distortion to deal with.
That's like asking to have religion removed from the annuls of human history - just because you hate god, doesn't mean the concept does not play out in the end times.
Human history trumps your opinions.