I worked in a credit union and one of our customers told me this. I thought she was nuts, but I looked up some of the sites she suggested and there is quite a following for this theory.
Basically, they believe that "god" or whatever you believe in, is nothing more than the control of aliens over our planet for thousands of years.
Any thoughts on this? Other than the obvious, "you are a nutjob?"
2006-09-11 07:08:56 · 16 answers · asked by Christina B 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
My more traditional religious beliefs aside for a moment... sure, why not? Arthur Clarke said that a technology of sufficient advancement would be indistinguishable from magic. VonDaaneken's 'Chariots of the Gods' promoted the same basic viewpoint (becoming the basis for the movie and TV series, 'Stargate', not to mention being included in "Alien vs. Predator')
The real question is, where are they now? How come they haven't manifested themselves in thousands of years. If the ancient gods were aliens, what happened to them, why don't they still come down from Olympus or wherever? They're certainly not exercising much in the way of identifiable control.
Were they merely human inventions (the predominant view of people with most of their marbles). Or, if it isn't rubbish, did something happen to them? Were they emotional vampires, dependent on worship, fading away when people stopped believing (Star Trek TOS: 'Who Mourns for Adonais?') Have they pulled back from direct contact since we started developing something like science of our own, now limiting themselves to the occasional UFO sighting? Was there a 'war in heaven' and our guys lost? And in that vein, were they actually demonic beings, as some Christians believe (Moloch and some of those Canaanite deities sure acted like demons).
Food for the imagination if not for the empirically rational mind.
2006-09-11 07:36:54 · answer #1 · answered by r_moulton76 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This theory is close to the foundation of Scientology, that religion that many hollywooders follow. The funny thing is, the religion is founded by L. Ron Hubbard, a known science-FICTION writer!
If you believe in the Bible, this point is argued with the simple verse stating that God made us in HIS image. That means he is not alien, nor are we.
With that said, some believe in the possibility that the Garden of Eden may have been another planet. Others believe that our planet is not the only one that God populated and that for illustration purposes, only Adam and Eve are mentioned. This has strong Biblical support as Adam and Eve only had sons which went out into the world and found wives. From where? There is no mention of the origin of these women!
The bottom line for me is that I do not believe the Bible supports nor contradicts the existence of life on other planets and that intelligent alien life may in fact exist and perhaps even visited (explaning many mysteries such as the Mayan knowledge of Astronomy and math, Eqyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, etc.).
2006-09-11 07:16:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is quite a following for the theory that various pyramids through out the world are related. It's very exciting and seems to make some sense until you take a look at the thousands of years separating the cultures who built them.
The same is most likely true with this, the sites have strung together "facts" that seem to support their theorys and convinently left out relevant facts that completely blow the "theory" out of the water. To get a more complete answer, you'd have to investigate each "claim" made by the sites very carefully against reliable sources.
2006-09-11 07:31:06 · answer #3 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God... aliens... control over the planet? Have you been talking to Tom Cruise? This sounds like Scientology. Alright I think that its another not impossible. I mean think about it. IF aliens did have control over us, they'd obviously have great technology and be able to prevent us from seeing the truth. However I don't really believe in god as any religeon says it is.
If you want to hear more about planetry control, aliens and brainwashing go to the links below. NOTE the second link has an animation and might need JAVA or something like that im not sure but try anyway, it's funny!
2006-09-11 07:15:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
interesting idea... however, then we're back to the age old debate of "where did we come from?" but first..... the alien thing... Believing in God.... what purpose would the aliens feel they're achieving by making us think there's a God... Why would ALIENS not want us to know about them, but give us the Ten Commandments? There's nothing written in the Bible, which the belief in God is founded on that is damaging to us, or beneficial to aliens. I can't say for sure if there's anyone else living in the Universe... it's too vast and huge for any of us to know everything about it.... BUT.... I personally believe in God... I believe because of faith and what I see around me every day. We are too complex to be from a big bang, evolution doesn't make sense because it'd still be going on today (i.e. monkey's would be turning into humans). I believe because there's scientific evidence to back up the Bible... and I believe in God because I can feel Him in my every day life..... it's not nearly as "glamorous" as an alien brain washing... but that's what I feel
2006-09-11 07:21:12 · answer #5 · answered by rachael 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've got confidence the respond is sure. It feels like something as we communicate out of a technological know-how fiction movie whether it would desire to be achieveable. You made a sturdy analogy with the canines and human beings and that i've got confidence which you responded your very own question. there's a rationalization why we can not communicate with different species and that's recommendations means. There very properly would desire to be different clever existence varieties that have a extra physically powerful recommendations means than we do and the effect would desire to be telepathic communique. each and every species on earth has a different way of speaking with one yet another so as that would desire to intend that each and each species contained in the universe has a different way of speaking. i do no longer see a fashion that they might communicate with us however till they found out a language on earth. in the event that they use telepathy to talk then we can not communicate back.
2016-09-30 14:15:20 · answer #6 · answered by fritch 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Aliens would also have to control the sun and all of the other stuff we can currently see in order for their plan to work. I don't think that God, in His ambivalence, would become too upset at His children for thinking of Him as an Alien.
2006-09-11 07:58:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know why this thought came to my mind. The aliens are brainwashing people of the earth by telling them there is higher power controlling them named God .
It is consperancy theory again . Nah I don't think so that.
2006-09-11 07:18:00 · answer #8 · answered by nona 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES there is quite a following, in 1997 it was called heaven's gate, in 1979 it was saigon's solution, in 1908 it was archipelagos release...
Believe it eventually all leads to some crazy leader who askes these poor bastards for money to teach them more, and eventualy they commit suicide in order to get on th spaceship with out their body, because that is the road to the next life
2006-09-11 07:12:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is the end result of a failed search for truth by a very shallow mind, provided that any search was made at all instead of swallowing the pile of delusional bilge that was spoon fed to you as a child.
2006-09-11 08:43:38 · answer #10 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋