Religion 'Conpiracy'

[desertedcities]

I wasn't sure where to put this, either way, it fits well with the usual asshatery that are conspiracy theories.

I was bantering on in one of my classes today, and we got into the conversation of religion which morphed into alien visitations of earth.

We came into a hybrid of the topics that spawned the idea that our religions are an experiment by extraterrestrial species. You notice how in the monotheistic religions that angels usually tell the prophets and writers of scripture what to say/write? Yeah? Especially Muhammad and the like, you know. Angels telling people these things, and aliens that happened to look like angels (this came up on the chat a day or two ago). And that they were experimenting on whether or not the religions would take root, and what would come of them (which is pretty evident today). All before a set time where the 'end times' would come, and they'd reveal themselves as the asses they are for creating so much strife and idiocy.

Thoughts? Complaints and grievances? Jests?

 

[darthrender2010]

not exactly new but sure, sounds like a conspiracy theory to me

 

[desertedcities]

Yeah, of course it isn't new. I've seen this come up a lot throughout the interwebz.

Either way, I thought it could stimulate some conversational hilarity.

Because it is, indeed, tin foil hat time.

 

[JBeukema]

one man sees an angel, another sees an alien, another sees a cloud of natural gas... all depends on how ignorant the times are

 

[desertedcities]

The Bronze Age desert dwellers were pretty ignorant, the aliens could have played upon the human's natural means of 'creating imaginary friends' and the like.

 

[JBeukema]

or they simply saw shit they didn't understand and attributed it to 'the thing that made everything and needs no maker....'


kinda like lightning and thunder... before science came about

 

[desertedcities]

Yeah, that's exactly it. Along the same lines as fossils and Pleistocene bones that the Greeks mistook for mythical beasts. If one doesn't know about it, one can only speculate and imagine.

 

[GoodKat]

I would love for this to be true, and to be there when the aliens revealed themselves, so I could laugh at all the sad, embarrassed religious peoples.

 

[desertedcities]

Iknorite? That would make my day for the rest of my life. It's rather plausible, but highly outlandish.

Oh, how I want it to come true within my lifetime.

 

[starfedrogue]

It's all Kosh's fault.

All of it Mollari! ALL OF IT!

 

[Finger]

Isn't this what Scientology believes?

 

[desertedcities]

In a way, yes, but I'm more referring the the Judeo-Christian-Muslim religion. Aliens that happen to look like angels were the ones to give the inspiration for the writings of these religions, playing on our natural side effect of producing a god-like being. Either way, Scientology shouldn't even be considered a religion, just a stupid.

 

[Master_Ghost_Knight]

That would be hilariouse, but unfortunatly people are stupid enough to have comed up with religiouse storys for themselves. So I guess we will be missing out some good laughs.

 

[desertedcities]

Yeah... It's almost a shame...

 

[IamtheVOICE123]

I wasn't sure where to put this, either way, it fits well with the usual asshatery that are conspiracy theories.

I was bantering on in one of my classes today, and we got into the conversation of religion which morphed into alien visitations of earth.

We came into a hybrid of the topics that spawned the idea that our religions are an experiment by extraterrestrial species. You notice how in the monotheistic religions that angels usually tell the prophets and writers of scripture what to say/write? Yeah? Especially Muhammad and the like, you know. Angels telling people these things, and aliens that happened to look like angels (this came up on the chat a day or two ago). And that they were experimenting on whether or not the religions would take root, and what would come of them (which is pretty evident today). All before a set time where the 'end times' would come, and they'd reveal themselves as the asses they are for creating so much strife and idiocy.

Thoughts? Complaints and grievances? Jests?

My father had a similar kind of view but not entirely like that. He contemplated that the advanced technological societies came down to earth and were treated as God's and so forth. He even explained a passage in Ezekial stating that "It described something round and floating" and then he said something along lines of "God is an immortal spirit, wtf would he need a space ship or a throne for?"

He also gave examples of various explanations of ancient primitive tribes being visited by more technologicall advanced people and were treated as god's because of that and eventually it became a sort of religion (the religion somewhere in africa called John Come is a perfect example of this).

I think that it is a valid reason to believe that Aliens passed and our own mythologies may be passed on their visiting (cause advanced species with advance technology would look like gods and their technology would look like magic to us).

This sounds much more probable to happen then "Religion being an experiment" which does seem unlikely but not too far fetched to me.

 

[Th1sWasATriumph]

He also gave examples of various explanations of ancient primitive tribes being visited by more technologicall advanced people and were treated as god's because of that and eventually it became a sort of religion (the religion somewhere in africa called John Come is a perfect example of this).

I think that it is a valid reason to believe that Aliens passed and our own mythologies may be passed on their visiting (cause advanced species with advance technology would look like gods and their technology would look like magic to us).

This sounds much more probable to happen then "Religion being an experiment" which does seem unlikely but not too far fetched to me.

How is that valid? It's just marginally less ridiculous than the traditional religious perspective. And considering no proof for it, we should abandon such hypotheses until proof arrives.

 

[Mapp]

This is one of the primary claims of Scientology. That religion, among other things was implanted into the minds of the Thetan spirits through mind control in order to make them forget their origins (and forget the Evil Overlord Xenu).

 

[Cyrathil]

Iknorite? That would make my day for the rest of my life. It's rather plausible, but highly outlandish.

Oh, how I want it to come true within my lifetime.

What about the story of the wandering in the desert? There was a light in the sky which guided them. Easily a UFO. The "chariot" that picked up Eli (or whatever his name was...). Jesus was an advanced android, which explains how he was able to resurrect (they teleported him out of the cave, and it was a simple repair job to make it so that the wounds still existed but weren't "problems"). They really do make this way too easy. It's all crap, but it might actually start making more sense in this light...

 

[Otokogoroshi]

Don't forget nukes. Xenu had nukes.









On a more logical note (yeah, Scientology doesn't do well with logic) why would an alien who can traverse space use... NUKES? It just seems like he'd have way better weapon tech than that. God that guy was a horrid writer.

 

[Icefire9atla]

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

-Arthur C Clark

If aliens do exist, and they did pass by earth, I'd be surprised if no human myths were based off of them.

why would an alien who can traverse space use... NUKES?

A teaspoon of anti-matter would create enough energy to destroy a city.