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Originally posted by vaelamin
reply to post by RevelationGeneration
How so? Just because God didn't say in the bible he created other life doesn't mean he has not. Not like he needs to tell us everything. Also Judging by how we turned out i wouldn't be surprised if there is a sinless human race out there. Someone who was not dumb enough to listen to a snake over the word of God.
Originally posted by halfoldman
The video doesn't prove anything, just some fundamentalist Christians who make a living from their "demonic" spin on "ufology" and "psychic phenomenon".
The Scole Experiment has no scientific validation whatsoever:
skeptoid.com...
Many of the claims have simple explanations like laser pointers and inserting doctored film into a box in a darkened room.
In terms of the Bible some modern mediums and even demonologists would claim that not all "spirits" are demons, and that there are episodes of contact with the afterlife in the Bible (the Witch of Endor, for example).
Nowhere does Jesus say that demons operate as aliens or impersonate dead people.
Those Christian interpretations and squeezing of scripture into marketable answers have been around for a while though, and ultimately anything that isn't "Christian" is "demonic". Since there are over 30 000 sects of Christianity they have to be defined in broad terms as clear answers that are never given in the Bronze Age text itself, so they lie for Jesus, as if He had said anything on aliens or all mediums or ghosts as being "demonic".
Film and photography didn't exist in the time or context of Jesus, and there's no instruction how to value them as real or false.
Not that it matters, according to science religious and psychic phenomenon has never been proven as supernatural, no matter how many people would like it to be true.
The obsession with demons is probably one of the most evil influences that religion has on modern society.
Here we are ending a week of activism against the so-called African "witch children" - children and even infants who are accused of being demon possessed witches by pastors and their brainwashed parents.
In the Congo alone 15 000 children were left homeless because pastors accused them of witchcraft.
They are tortured and abused in Christian exorcisms, which are ill-defined and can snow-ball into anything.
The silence of Western demon-preachers on such cases is deafening, which proves the complete lack of morality in spreading such beliefs.
In Korea a Christian pastor and "faith-healer" has recently left his children to starve in an exorcism.
www.religionnewsblog.com...
And there are many such instances, where psychotic believers get some message from decontextualized Biblical passages that their children are possessed, and when the demons fail to materialize and exit it can end up in torture and murder.
Sadly, claims of demons set psychic research back into the worst superstitions of the Dark Ages, and has turned many a tentative believer back into a skeptic.
Will Storr, for example, becomes somewhat convinced of the existence of ghosts at the beginning of his book Will Storr vs.The Supernatural: One man's search for the truth about ghosts (Ebury Press: 2006), but this is ruined by religious demonologists, and in the final chapter he ends up at an "exorcism" in Kentucky, which turns out to be the religious child abuse of an autistic little boy.
Such practices and the social and inter-generational harm they cause will become more common, as programs on psychic investigations and haunted houses add a demonic spin to please the Christian audience, and already recreated tales become even more laughable.
Seeing the evil and abuse that religion creates in the world through demon-beliefs (which some still believe explains diseases), makes many turn to complete atheism and skepticism.
Perhaps one could even call it an insult to Christianity that such claims are said to "prove" the religion as true.
They seem to prove exactly the opposite.
edit on 10-3-2012 by halfoldman because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by CaptainNemo
reply to post by RevelationGeneration
The Bible does not confirm nor deny the existence of extra-terrestrials.
skeptoid.com...
Unfortunately, the Scole Experiment was tainted by profound investigative failings. In short, the investigators imposed little or no controls or restrictions upon the mediums, and at the same time, agreed to all of the restrictions imposed by the mediums. The mediums were in control of the seances, not the investigators. What the Scole Report authors describe as a scientific investigation of the phenomena, was in fact (by any reasonable interpretation of the scientific method) hampered by a set of rules which explicitly prevented any scientific investigation of the phenomena.
. The earth is the centre of the universe and we were made in God's image, we are special and so is our planet. Alien life is not compatible with the Christian world view.
Originally posted by Akragon
reply to post by RevelationGeneration
. The earth is the centre of the universe and we were made in God's image, we are special and so is our planet. Alien life is not compatible with the Christian world view.
Dude are you serious?
The earth isn't even the center of THIS galaxy... you're joking right?
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
Originally posted by Akragon
reply to post by RevelationGeneration
. The earth is the centre of the universe and we were made in God's image, we are special and so is our planet. Alien life is not compatible with the Christian world view.
Dude are you serious?
The earth isn't even the center of THIS galaxy... you're joking right?
I took it to mean, center of it as in importance, in a figurative sense. Like you'd say that snotty girl over there thinks she is the center of the universe.
Originally posted by RevelationGeneration
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
Originally posted by Akragon
reply to post by RevelationGeneration
. The earth is the centre of the universe and we were made in God's image, we are special and so is our planet. Alien life is not compatible with the Christian world view.
Dude are you serious?
The earth isn't even the center of THIS galaxy... you're joking right?
I took it to mean, center of it as in importance, in a figurative sense. Like you'd say that snotty girl over there thinks she is the center of the universe.
Yeah that is what I mean't. I wouldn't expect Akragon to understand.
Originally posted by Akragon
reply to post by NOTurTypical
Lets just say i've heard "stranger" things on these forums...
Ye never know what someone actually thinks
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
Originally posted by Akragon
reply to post by NOTurTypical
Lets just say i've heard "stranger" things on these forums...
Ye never know what someone actually thinks
True, but I think you was mocking him. I know, I'm good at being flippant. It's one of my gifts.
Their are actual video and photographs in the film mentioned that are not simply a case of Apophenia.