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Originally posted by RUSSO
reply to post by mb2591
My question is, if you can believe in aliens, can you believe in God too?
Originally posted by facelift
reply to post by RUSSO
My question is, if you can believe in aliens, can you believe in God too?
Imagine if god is an alien - a 2 fir..!
Originally posted by countduckula24
Better yet can we not 'believe' in anything. As John Keel once said 'Belief is the enemy'. The very minute that you 'believe in' something its like that critical thinking portion of your brain shuts down. So please don't say you 'believe' in aliens. It's not (supposed to be) a religion. Thanks.
Originally posted by MikeyBones
Does your statement go both ways? If you can believe in Aliens, can you believe in God? I find that many think the belief in aliens explains God (and that God is only an explanation of something that they didn't understand), but to me, things worked the other way around... I originally did not believe in God but my belief in aliens led to a belief in extra-dimensional creatures which opened up the possibility (and likelihood) of God. If the story of the master of deception making us disbelieve God is true, then the story of aliens from another planet would be a great way to do so.
But I do agree with your point... I think the proof left by our ancient ancestors indeed confirms that we were visited by beings of unknown origin. I just hope that people are open to all ideas of where these beings are from and not limited to our understanding of the universe (which I doubt we will every fully understand)
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Yar... you beat me to the punch!edit on 31-5-2011 by MikeyBones because: 'cause someone beat me to the punch and said what I said first... I thought I should give credit where credit is due
You're calling something well beyond this universe extraterrestrial and alien. You're also implying it has a physical body by saying it's extraterrestrial. You're also saying it's alien to us, yet we all have a soul which was given and can connect to the divine, making us part terrestrial and part celestial.
Originally posted by MattPreuss
By definition "God" would fall under both the Alien and Extra-Terrestrial categories. So in turn if you believe in "God" someone/thing that exists/existed outside our sphere that would imply "God" is indeed extra-terrestrial, and it would also imply that "God" is an alien because God isn't from our sphere. So that being said its quite amusing that we have a planet filled with people who believe in "God" and yet they don't understand the definition of the simple terms used above. Educate yourself folks.
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en.wikipedia.org...edit on 31-5-2011 by MattPreuss because: *fixed spelling
Originally posted by dodgydave
Thousands of years ago people worshiped things that they could see as gods. ie the Sun, Moon, stars and the earth itself. The christian god only came about as a way to subjugate the masses and drive fear into their hearts. The original divide and rule if you like. "Do you believe in God? Good. Give me all your money and you'll be rewarded in Heaven." "You don't believe! Then if the church don't get you the Devil will."
Aliens are real. Fact
The Raelian Movement teaches that life on Earth was scientifically created by a species of extraterrestrials, which they call the Elohim.
And many other Alien/UFO religions..