Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – the Christians are upset about aliens

Steven Spielberg has the christians riled up with his new movie about aliens, Disclosure Day (spoilers at the link: the plot seems utterly ridiculous to me). they are concerned how the discovery of life on other worlds would impact their cult. They do have some reason for this concern since their bible is by ignorant goat herders and any aliens would show that their bible fails from the first page where it says that stars are little lights in a solid dome which can fall off.

and of course, some are sure that aliens would be demons. Of course, like their god, they can’t show demons exist and demons are just anything they don’t like.

this one rather silly christian, Mark Birchler, goes on and manages to shoot himself in the metaphorical face with his concerns. I respond below:

Christianity has quite a problem with aliens since the bible says that stars are little lights in a solid dome. No stars, no planets and then where do aliens come from? And why assume that these beings would care about a god that can’t be shown to exist?

“As a confessing Christian who trusts the testimony of Scripture I would be extremely resistant of claims made by beings whose true essence and purpose are hidden from human understanding. And, the possibility that they are demonic manifestations may end up being the most accurate assumption.”

Curious how christians often claim that their god is “mysterious” and they don’t know its true essence or purpose. That would make it a demon by Mark’s own claims. BTW, for anyone outside the US, “The Federalist” which is quoted in Mark’s blog post, is an typical ignorant and fearful conservative website that spews lots of lies.

As for heresy, it’s curious how every christians calls the other christians heretics and not one christian can show that their claims are any more true than the rest.

He’s also very concerned with “sin” and being saved from them. At the cult’s core, there is only one sin: disobeying god. and since these christians can’t figure out what this god wants, they have quite a problem.