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In reply to the discussion: Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin [View all]Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)I'm entertained as all get out. UFO's are one of my favorite subjects. I wish DU had a whole forum for it.
One thing that makes me chuckle is the idea that UFO aliens would somehow upset religious applecarts. Scientology, Mormonism, Hinduism, and lots of other long-established religious expressly believe in life on other planets, and pretty much all organized religions involve extraterrestrial beings. Christianity has a whole roster of extraterrestrial intelligent beings.
But UFO believers don't see themselves as actually subscribing to a religious faith - so, yes, I find that funny more than anything else, since it fits any definition of religious faith you might want to come up with, right down to the "sky fairies" and the smug confidence they will be proven correct on the Day of Reckoning when Klaatu and his buddies come back.
Here's a question for you - when the UFO aliens reveal themselves AND then tell us about their religion, are you signing up?
But, as an atheist, I find all these things entertaining and enlightening about how human minds work, and don't work, moreso than about imaginary space beings. I'll be happy to meet them when they show up, but until then, it is more revealing about what goes on in people's heads than what goes on in space. Same as any other religious belief.