Spirituality
Religious People Literally Worship Aliens
Fun facts: Angels, demons, and the gods that people pray to are aliens. If they don’t live on Earth, they’re alien to us by definition.
Before we continue — relax
We’re just having fun here. None of what we’ll talk about today diminishes your faith. There’s no need to be offended. I respect all people’s faiths, and this is just my opinion or, rather, a fun little perspective switch to see if things make more sense if we replace “divine beings” with the term “aliens.” Spoiler alert — they do.
Most religious people don’t think they believe in aliens. We’ll examine different perspectives that divine beings from world religions are, in fact, aliens. Not only do religious people believe in aliens, they worship them. Ready?
Ancient people didn’t have a concept of aliens and technology
Think about it. If someone from a few thousand years ago, before space exploration, flight, and any sort of technology, saw aliens in the sky — what would they call them? How would they perceive them?
They didn’t know the term “alien” back then, or planet, for that matter. It was either humans, animals, gods, angels, or demons (in various translations). Anything they saw or encountered had to fit one of those descriptions or categories.
Religious UFOs (unidentified flying objects)
A spacecraft flying over people’s heads with rocket fuel burning behind it is not something they could describe as a UFO or alien in nature. There was no such concept at the time.
They would simply be astounded, most likely frightened, and call it divine in one form or another. A fast-moving, loud object ejecting fire in the sky would most likely be explained as the only means of transportation they knew: chariots and horses.
Here’s an example from the Bible concerning the Fiery Chariot of Elijah. Old Testament, the book of 2 Kings, chapter 2, verses 11–12:
“As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. Elisha saw this and cried out, ‘My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!’ And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore it in two.”
What is the more likely explanation? That some divine being flew literal burning horses with a chariot in the sky, or that he saw aliens abducting this man into their spaceship? Be honest!
Ezekiel’s Vision, Ezekiel 1:4–6, ESV:
“As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness around it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming metal. And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had a human likeness, but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.”
While describing a vision, it’s still basically a metal flying object using fire to propel itself across the sky, from which alien beings appeared.
The Lord Descends on Mount Sinai, Exodus 19:16–18, NIV:
“On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the Lord descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently.”
This sounds to me like a spacecraft landing on top of a mountain. I can see no other “rational” explanation. Can you?
Let’s add a few examples from ancient Vedas (Hinduism), Rigveda 1.163.6:
“These who are wise have said that the horses of Indra the God are all, three hundred and thirty and three: as many are the heavens which Indra the God has for his own, and by these paths they travel to and fro.”
Indra’s divine chariot is pulled by three hundred and thirty-three horses that traverse the heavens (fly). What is more likely, flying horses or alien technology, incomprehensible to ancient human understanding? I’ll leave that one to you.
From the Mahabharata, Mahabharata, Book 1, Section 179:
“Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three cities of the Vrishnis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe.”
Sounds like a powerful rocket shot from a spaceship heading toward its target to me.
From the Samarangana Sutradhara, Samarangana Sutradhara, Chapter 1, Verses 12–13:
“Strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with its iron heating apparatus underneath. By means of the power latent in the mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky.”
I don’t know how accurate these translations are, so anything is possible. However, how else could one explain the above statement from today’s point of view? Are they not describing literal space or aircraft with pilots and propulsion systems?
Remember, the Vedas were composed over several centuries, spanning from around 1500 BCE to 500 BCE. They didn’t understand technology, yet they seemed to be describing it in great detail.
Angels are aliens
Where do angels live? In the heavens, correct? Are “heavens” on our planet? No. At best, this depicts the “sky,” and at worst, another planet, galaxy, realm, dimension, or parallel universe. Either way, they’re alien to us.
If you know your Bible, then you know that Satan, lovingly called Lucifer (the bringer of light), or unlovingly “the Devil,” is also an angel — not unlike the other guy who now holds the goodwill of their father and whom you like to see suffer on a two 90 degree interlaced sticks. Long story short, the “Lightbringer” wanted more power and lost the uprising in heaven, so he was cast down to Earth, along with his angels.
Revelation 12:7–9 (NIV):
“Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down — that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.”
By definition, if he were hurled down to earth and no longer allowed in the heavens, that would make him an alien to humans. Overall, the Fallen Angels saga reads just like any other alien-infighting story. A rebellious son, a favorite one, a failed coup, followed by punishment in the form of banishment.
For the people observing this, being so technologically inept, all of this would appear miraculous, extradimensional, spiritual, and divine. Perhaps it was.
I would argue it’s much more logical and probable that they were simply witnessing an alien race fighting for power. The aliens and the “king in the sky” would indeed be like gods to mortal, technologically inept humans.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” Arthur C. Clarke
This does not diminish the lore, the stories, or anyone’s faith. God and his angels were indeed incomprehensibly more powerful, judging by descriptions and stories, and it made sense for people to obey and fear them.
For believers today, acknowledging that they worship aliens is just a different definition of the same thing. They believe in beings not of this Earth, who are vastly more powerful, share some of our qualities, and will one day return and rinse the planet of all those unworthy while saving their followers.
Thessalonians 4:16–17 (NIV):
“For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.”
Our creators are, in fact, aliens
We can’t overlook the creation myth, with God being the father of all, but that’s a separate topic, more akin to the Simulation theory than aliens. We’ll get to that sooner rather than late.
For now, some food for thought. It is entirely possible that humans were indeed artificially created as what we are today: intelligent beings, hierarchy above other animals on this planet.
There are undeniable holes in the theory of evolution and some mighty impressive time jumps in intelligence and capability. Science simply winks in one eye and pretends that things make sense. We just can’t find all the missing links while conveniently ignoring all evidence against it.
That’s fine and understandable. We all do it to some degree. Our core beliefs are a mighty obstacle to having an open mind, especially when facing new possibilities and ideas that could ultimately reverse everything we believed our whole lives and had staked our education, life’s work, and reputation on.
Our core beliefs often conflict with “the truth” in all circles, including the scientific community. New radical discoveries were always opposed and faced fierce opposition. Every new theory, now accepted, started its life as a fringe, crazy, against-the-tide proposition. I suspect this will never end.
I, for one, find the theory that aliens, our overlords at the time, genetically manipulated our predecessors and made us who we are today entirely plausible. It makes sense that some outside force intervened in our evolution, as no other species — not a single one — has displayed a similar jump in intelligence.
One day, some 200,000 years ago, we were walking apes called Neanderthals. Homo sapiens is said to have come about somewhere from 100,000 to 40,000 years ago, and there are indications of crossbreeding, which would indicate both species probably coexisted for a time.
The next moment, supposedly 40,000 years ago, we were humans who could craft and use tools, organize into functioning societies, and, a few thousand years later, fly rocket ships to other planets. This is a minuscule amount of time in an evolutionary sense, yet the results are unprecedented. If the process took millions of years and we had some other species on a similar path, fine. But we don’t.
Nothing comes even close. No other animal has made even a fraction of similar transitions. Not to mention that almost all animals, including apes from that era, exist today as they did back then. Something is amiss.
The idea of an all-powerful God who created the whole universe, along with Earth and humans, is a hard pill to swallow for any non-religiously inclined individual. It takes an enormous leap of faith to buy into the creation myth as it is often presented.
What happens if we turn this around on the head and call God and angels what they most likely are (if they exist): powerful, intelligent, and technologically far superior aliens? Well, then, it all starts to make sense, and it becomes a lot more believable for those of us who lack faith in the unseen and untouchable.
Genetic manipulation is a thing, don’t you know?
We can do all sorts of gene wizardry ourselves today. It would make perfect sense that alien beings, far superior to our technological development today, could alter our predecessors in a way that would make us more useful, I suppose.
At least that’s the ancient alien origin theory, isn’t it? It’s not only possible, but I think it is quite probable that some other species interfered in our development.
“If there were any evidence for that, we would know it already! Stop dreaming and trust the science.”
The problem with discussing such matters in the scientific or historical community is that they conflict with prevailing theories and raise a whole new specter of issues regarding our history, origins, and the truth. Hence, even if there is ample evidence for this particular theory, it will never come out in the open — not from official sources, anyway.
The reputational and structural damage would be catastrophic for the scientific community and religious institutions alike. Truth has no place in this world when so many opposing forces have other interests. Thus, we can only play with ideas.
Nephilim are alien-human hybrids
Genesis 6:1–4 (New International Version):
“When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the Lord said, ‘My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days — and also afterward — when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old men of renown.”
Effectively, aliens got horny for our beautiful women, which I completely understand, and they played around with them, resulting in offspring in the form of the infamous Nephilim. Some say those were the giants of the old. Either way, they weren’t quite human but half-alien, with angels being aliens themselves.
The ability of those angels/aliens to create offspring with human women clearly indicates that we are very similar. I’m not sure how sperm from spiritual beings would impregnate human women or how that would work if they were some non-corporeal beings from another dimension.
Logic dictates that we were somehow made to be similar to them, probably by genetically manipulating our predecessors’ DNA with that of these aliens. As far as we know, crossbreeding is possible only among similar species.
Those fornicating angels, being actual aliens, biological beings of flesh and blood (and sperm, apparently) who also seeded the genetic material for humans, would make all the sense in the world — assuming those stories are true, of course. Any other explanation requires believing in miracles and the impossible. It requires faith to cover those chasms that make no sense. Replace angles with aliens, and there is no need for such mental acrobatics.
Noa stored a seed bank on that ark of his, not pairs of animals
Regarding genetics and technology explaining the unexplainable, we can’t ignore the Noa and the flood story. Let us refresh our memories.
Genesis 6:19–20 (NIV):
“You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal, and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.”
Religious explanations of events pose all sorts of problems. They require the complete and utter extinguishing of logical, rational thought and surrendering our understanding to blind faith in miracles.
Hunting, gathering, storing, and keeping billions of living creatures alive in a wooden ark is impossible in literal terms. It just is. It’s not at all impossible, though, if you change your perspective.
If there was this guy called Noe who preserved all animal species, ensuring their existence after the flood, there is one way it would be easy to accomplish this goal: with the help of his alien friends and seed banks or gene banks (Germplasm banks ). Heck, even we do something similar with plants in our apocalypse-proof vaults.
If miracles and divine intervention are replaced with advanced alien technology, things start making sense again. Don’t they?
Theoretically, if one were given genetic material, frozen semen, and eggs from all the animals and a lab, one could repopulate the planet with relative ease. Given enough diversity in the samples, one could also avoid inbreeding.
The idea of one family surviving the biblical flood and being the only humans left on this planet, tasked with repopulating the planet, always bothered me. We do remember what happens when humans inbreed too much, right? Now, make millions out of one bloodline, and you have a catastrophe on your hands. A few generations later, we’d all be mumbling idiots.
Who caused the flood and murdered all life on planet Earth?
I mean, the religious texts leave no room for wondering. God. Again, this would seem like a miracle or the result of divine power, but with sufficiently advanced technology, one can manipulate the weather at will.
We’re already there, friends. Just look at the latest floods that resulted from the overly ambitious cloud seeding over Dubai. Floods in the desert. Isn’t that something?
And if we can do it, mighty, technologically advanced aliens would have no problem rinsing our planet of all life, should they so choose. Talk about genocidal bastards, am I right?
Genesis 6:5–7 (NIV):
“The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, ‘I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created — and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground — for I regret that I have made them.’”
Oh, I forgot, we’re not supposed to talk about how evil and indiscriminately murderous God is. Only humans do bad things, and the devil makes us do them. My bad.
I repent; God is good, and God is love, and he never did anything to question this fact, like literally murdering everyone on the planet because he was angry at them, like an evil alien overlord from some science fiction story.
“Submit or be destroyed!”
“He’s bluffing. Lol. He would never…”
“Flood the infidels, drown the men, women, and children.”
“But, Sir, infants too? They so innocent…”
“Did I stutter? Kill them all! Hell, kill all the animals who breathe the same air as these idiots. Let’s call this a divine reset and start anew.”
“Okay, Sir. Whatever you say. You wil shall be done.”
“Damn right, it shall! Oh, and fetch Noa for me. I’ve got a job for the little fellow. He’s the only one I like. Fuck the rest of humanity.”
It’s a good thing this is the only example of such relentless fury from the god of love, isn’t it?
Let’s forget about the time he released hungry bears to rip apart some naughty children or when he burned two cities to the ground (Sodoma and Gomorrah) because they got too liberal in their sexual ways or murdered all firstborn children to make a point. You’re right. I see no resemblance whatsoever. Are we good here? Who needs a devil with such a God, I wonder?
One last thought regarding the destruction of Sodoma and Gomorrah, and then I’ll leave you to ponder what has been written here.
Genesis 18:20–21 (NIV):
“Then the Lord said, ‘The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.’”
Spoiler alert — it was as bad. They even wanted to bed the angels he sent on the lookout, those dirty rascals. No, I’m not joking. I’d be mad, too.
Genesis 19:4–5 (NIV):
“Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom — both young and old — surrounded the house. They called to Lot, ‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.’”
I told you. If there was ever a good reason to destroy a whole city or two, it must be this. Am I right? Horny bastards must burn!
“What about the women and children? They didn’t…”
“Burn them all! Guilty by association.”
“But, but, collective punishment isn’t cool, oh Lord.”
“Says who? I am the Lord; my word is the Law, and I say burn them all. I want them well done. Leave none standing. I don’t want to deal with all that drama. If even one infant escapes my wrath, you’ll be thrown into the fire as well — am I clear?”
Genesis 19:24–25 (NIV):
“Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah — from the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities — and also the vegetation in the land.”
Assuming we were watching a movie where aliens annihilate whole cities from up above, wouldn’t it look something similar?
A spaceship appears in the night sky, and fire rains down on the cities, burning pesky humans to crisp, along with all vegetation. Whether those were missiles, lasers, nuclear explosions, or some other form of air-to-land weapons of mass destruction, alien technology sure is a logical and rational explanation for this event. Perhaps so is the attitude.
There are a few more mentions of fire from the sky. Here are two more examples, just for the flaming joy of it, since apparently shooting fire from spaceships is fun and godly behavior.
Kings 1:10–12 (NIV):
“Elijah answered the captain, ‘If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!’ Then fire fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men. So the king sent a second captain with his fifty men. The captain said to him, ‘Man of God, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once! If I am a man of God,’ Elijah replied, ‘may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!’ Then the fire of God fell from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.”
Revelation 20:9 (NIV):
“They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them.”
Something familiar is happening today, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. Hm? It’s on the tip of my tongue, I swear. Surrounded god’s people, fire raining from the sky, but where are the aliens hiding? This is the real mystery.
Okay, I’m convinced — religions worship aliens. Now what?
As I said in the beginning, I don’t think anything has changed, really. Keep whatever your religion or faith is giving you.
When we think of “divine beings” as literal aliens from some other planet, things begin to make more sense, and a gap of understanding is closed between science, history, fringe theories, and religions.
The bottom line is that we all somehow believe in the same thing; we just interpret it in different ways. Some take it more literally, some less, others from the perspective of science and technology, while some stick to mysticism, with a million subsections and interpretations.
Plenty of events described in ancient texts have some basis in hard evidence; they’re just interpreted differently.
Some remain anecdotal stories, but there are connections everywhere, starting with the aforementioned world-spanning flood. I don’t understand how anyone who has studied all of these things with an objective, open mind doesn’t come to similar conclusions.
It’s aliens! Aliens, I tell you! 😀 Which makes us sort of semi-aliens as well, dammit!
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I would love to hear your thoughts
- Does changing your perspective from divine beings to aliens make more sense in these stories, or is that just my imagination?
- What is more probable, impossible miracles or advanced technology?
- How do you think people would interpret alien encounters thousands of years ago?
