In my third post summarizing religion scholar Christopher Partridge's overview of UFO religions and abduction spiritualities, I noted the similarity between the ascended masters of occult Theosophy and the space aliens described by George Adamski. In my closing...
ExoTheology
TIME Magazine and (Exo)Theological Ignorance
I saw this essay from TIME Magazine pop up on Twitter today: "Dabbling in Exotheology." The date of the essay was 1978 (unless that's a typo). The essay opens with this question: "Can the "image of God" survive in extraterrestrial life?" An understandable one, but an...
Could We Tell An Advanced ET from God?
Famous atheist Michael Shermer asks that question here. It's a good overview of things to think about in this regard. I am in basic agreement that the existence of an advanced ET would be embraced as God by many, perhaps most. But despite the article's strengths, it...
Detection of ET Life: Consequences for Science, Society (and Religion)
This issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society is over a month old. I was holding it for a post but got side-tracked on other items. Several of the articles relate to the question of the impact of ET life on religion. I have screen-captured the...
Magonia Review of Nick Redfern’s Book
Here's a sample of how many readers are taking Nick's most recent book. The review has quite a negative tone with respect to Christians. Assuming Nick is accurate in his portrayal of the Collins Elite, this sort of dark attitude (portraying Christians as fascists)...
“The” Christian View of Aliens, Part 2
In my first (awfully long) installment on this topic, I wrote about how it is unwise to suggest there is or can only be one Christian view of intelligent alien life, should such life be proven factual someday. In the course of that installment, I alluded to certain...
Religious Implications of SETI’s Success, Part 1
I'd like to thank RRRGroup of the UFO Iconoclasts blog for bringing a recent (2000) document to my attention. The document concerns the SETI program and the implications for humanity should SETI succeed in making contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. It is...
UFOs, ETs, and Religion, part 1
If you've read the "Purpose" page on this blog, you know that the focus of this blog is the intersection of the UFO phenomenon (and its spin-off phenomenon, "alien" abduction) with religion. While my academic and personal background is Judeo-Christianity, I'm not...
The Flaw of the Excluded Middle
Here's a link to an excellent article written years ago by a famous professor of Christian missions (Dr. Paul Hiebert, who was an anthropologist as well). It relates conceptually to the discussion of ETs. It argues against the rationalistic Western worldview--that...