God vs. Aliens

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I’ve been really puzzled by a recent theme here lately.

No, not our culture’s questionable obsession with unicorns, or the fact that our White House is turning over faster than a round of tequila shots on Cinco de Mayo.

I’m confused about society’s recent preoccupation with….aliens.

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And if you think that was out of left field, well, so did I.

I mean, I feel like in the last year, we’ve just collectively, as a society, adopted this fixation with aliens! – Just scroll through the Netflix Options, and I swear – 1/3 of the shows have to do with aliens! Stranger Things, Alien Invasion, The X Files, Continuum, Signs, I mean, the list goes on and on.

This stuff is crazy – Tall Greys, Reptilians, The Andromedan – I mean, I did one Google search after listening to a podcast, and daaaang there’s a lot of wild stuff out there.

And what the heck, humans? Do we really believe this stuff??

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The”alien believer” is no longer a shut-in nut job with pasty skin and old 80’s band T-shirts with cargo shorts. We’re talking the cute girl who went to Coachella, wearing $500 sunglasses, a choker and sipping a green juice. You know…the same girl with crystals stuffed in her bra for “good energy.” That girl BELIEVES IN TALL GREYS.

Now, perhaps you’re thinking, how could I be so small minded to believe that we’re the only form of life in the entire universe. 

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Sure, ok you got me. Guilty! But that’s not the direction this post is going.

My question is this:

How is it that our society’s belief in aliens is on the rise, and yet our belief in God is on the decline?

Is it because it’s trendy? Perhaps a little edgy? A little hipster? I mean, we all love a good conspiracy theory, amIrite?

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But seriously. That’s a terrifying truth. NewsWeek recently published an article that talked about how the number of people who believe in aliens has grown to 54%. Fifty-four percent!!  And yet, over the last generation, there has been a decline in the belief of God. Down to only 75%. Which just for perspective, 60 years ago, that number was hovering around 98%.

That, ladies and gentleman, is a scary thought to behold.

I just don’t get it. We’re gung-ho for publicly expressing our faith in the existence of aliens — it’s trendy, even! And yet, heaven forbid we breathe a word about God in public.

There’s something wrong with that picture.

I’m not bashing science or trying to challenge scientific progress or advancement. Not at all. I don’t put it past God to create aliens, just to, you know, spice things up a bit.

But I’m just struck by the climate of – bashfulness – we have about believing in God.

When did God become “the universe” in conversation?

When did God’s plan become “fate” or “serendipity?”

Here’s the scary truth: if we don’t strive to keep God in the conversation – keep Him relevant, – I fear that He’s going to get buried beneath the talk of alien conspiracy theories, vanilla spirituality, and the secularization of Christmas and Easter.

Take one look at the options available on Netflix, and it’s blatantly obvious that we are failing miserably at arguably the most important commandment of all: “Go and make disciples of all the nations.” Matt 28:16-20. Translation: Talk to people about Him!

Frankly, I wish we’d just cut the crap with the “gratitude” and the “mindfulness” and the vanilla spirituality that leaves God out of the picture! I mean, sure, those things are  creating wonderful, good hearted people…but where is God in all of that?

We’ve got to keep God in the conversation. Because if we don’t, then who will?

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Let’s not let God lose to aliens, for cryin’ out loud.

Be bold. Be brave. And for the love of all things good, don’t refer to God as “The Universe.”

Leave that for the aliens…

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468 thoughts on “God vs. Aliens”

  1. In a sense, to me, it is positive, in that I need to explore the extremes before I discovered that God was there all along and it was I who failed to recognize it. The greatest obstacle to finding God is the word, God. Great observations and expression of Truth

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    1. This is a really powerful perspective. Thank you so much for sharing it. It’s so incredible when we realize that we were never alone, and how He really was there all along. thanks for stopping by! Hugs and love xox

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    1. Thanks so much Deanna! haha aw thanks 🙂 I’m really excited! i’m literally sitting here reading it right now!!! Can’t wait to reveal the cover!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 thanks for sharing in the excitement with me. big hugs xox

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  4. This is a great post asking great questions. Firstly is Netflix and other media, the cause or affect of alien belief. The other thing is that traditional religious teaching seems to rule out aliens as anything to believe in.
    The other thing that needs thinking about is that people seem to think that religion is God, which I think is a mistake. Religion is of man and flawed, therefore when a priest does something bad, God is blamed. The issue of spirituality needs to be brought into the light for what it is, life and love. Not huge organisations which make up yet more rules and cages for us.
    What do you think? Hope you’re well, I must get your book 🙂

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    1. thanks so much Simon. That really is a powerful question about Netflix. It’s as though we’re taking SCi-Fi seriously. Lots of great thoughts. I think at the end of the day, God looks at the heart 🙂 It all comes down to Jesus. Thanks for stopping by. big hugs x

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      1. The thing is that sci-fi is rapidly becoming real, more real than God or religious teaching. People therefore have faith in it. Ultimately we all have to start accepting all faiths into our circle and belief needs to be about people and lives, not rules and discipline.
        Always a pleasure to stop by. Big hugs back 🙂

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      2. I think you’re right – I mean, back to the future is coming to fruition. We’re thinking about sending people to Mars. And we’re literally carrying computers in our pockets! But the thing is…GOd made all those things possible 🙂 thanks again for stopping by! Hugs and love xox

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      3. Absolutely, but he didn’t do it for us. So in people’s mind he is either or of reach out didn’t exist. Catch you soon I hope. Keep smiling, love and hugs xox

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  5. Hey U!! Yeah, I don’t know what the real truth is about other beings from other systems. I do think that its out of material convenience that so many would rather believe in them than believe in God. Its a sad thought. I’m glad to believe in God and I’m glad for all that God has done for you!! xoxoxoxo

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      1. I’ve been SOOO in and out lately! Its amazing how beliefs in general keep shifting. You know what reflects it so much? Movies! Back when Passion of The Christ came out, and then later the Bible series (was on cable) people were very outspoken about belief in God. Now look, its all Marvel Comics and etc… SciFi Not much God talk out there. Glad YOU did talk about Him. xoxoxoxo

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  6. It’s, like, science!

    Ok, seriously, I think it’s because God, if He exists, makes demands on our lives. Now.

    Aliens, if they exist, do not. At least not yet. I am convinced that most who profess to be athiests base their belief on one big thing: that they do not want there to be a God. Because no God means complete autonomy.

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    1. Thanks for this, JP! That’s really a poignant truth: if you accept that He exists, then it means you have to live for someone other than yourself. Thanks for stopping by 🙂 always powerful food for thought! big hugs xox

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  8. Well, you know it’s not cool to know God, unless you need something 😉 I don’t hear anyone asking ET to help them. Anywho, congratulations on your book!! I’m so excited you would think I wrote the it hahaha 🙂 I’m so happy for you! Blessing, blessing every where :):) big hugs, much love, and prayers xoxo

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  10. You know, I’ve noticed a trend in the churches throughout America to focus on self as opposed to focusing on God. When we seek to know God, all that other stuff shifts into perspective.

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  11. I can’t like this post enough!!! You are so spot on with this! Alarming statistics, yet it’s so evident in so much of our culture. I too get annoyed when people refer to God as “the Universe.” Thank you so much for writing this. 🙂

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  13. A great post Caralyn. Belief in aliens has been around since the 70s from what I know. But you’re right it has increased. I think though it’s because we each want to believe in something higher, but we block the God of the Bible out, so people look for something else to fill their hearts. To be honest, TV religious shows often focus on getting rich and on self. I think people searching can tell that is not the way, and in their minds dismiss the traditional faith too. One more thing there is a distinct lack of community in our churches now, but that was not always the case. Now people see relevance and community in their hand held devices. Our whole society has shifted and changed because of that. These are just some thoughts I had. Wishing you peace.

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    1. Thanks so much for this great food for thought! I think you’re right – we’re all looking for something to fill that void, and if it’s not God, then I guess its aliens or self betterment or whatnot. That’s such a great point about our smart phones. It’s crazy, even when you’re together with people, you look around and half the people are on their phones anyway! thanks for this awesome response. lots to mull over 🙂 Hugs and love xox

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  14. I remember my family was giving a lift to an old Highland preacher (in his 90’s) when there had been a lot of stuff on the news about finding the right conditions for life on other planets. Teasingly, we asked him if he thought there might be life on other planets. He surprised us by saying there might well be, but then added… “but the Son Of Man (ie Christ) has power ON EARTH to forgive sins, (Matt 9:24) so I better stick where I am for now.”

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  16. This will be a topic all the generations will discuss, whichever scientific or biblical belief they have… what matters most is God is never totally left out of the equation for even those alien-believers are not so sure to leave HIM just for this universal “being” they’ve never seemed to knew about it started, who started it and why they’ve started it. Am not sure for I wasn’t born before the space race has became a big issue that they need something big or of significant topic to attached to make the outer space exploration more exciting and worth following. Asked those manning the ISS if they’re not praying to God while on board …. Am very sure , they are and into God but not to the aliens. Great Article !

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  18. One Saturday afternoon I found myself watching something about the moon on one of those documentary channels. They had all these theories on how impossible it was for the moon to form and be made the way it is unless there were aliens. I just kept sitting there thinking, “um, God maybe?!?” I find it much more likely that our moon is where it is and is made the way it is because God created it that way than to believe that our moon is some sort of alien outpost.

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  20. To add on to the conversation many are having here about the decrease in belief in God, I think sadly there’s often misrepresentation of Christianity too. Many outside of the church see believers as an exclusive group or even (devastatingly) a group of people who looks down on others/considers themselves as better, because these people outside of the church are inevitably interacting with believers who are not genuine (because as the Scripture says, not all who call ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the Kingdom.) It breaks my heart that some people outside the faith have this view and I think as believers we need to reassess how we’re treating those different from us and our church climate, because it’s supposed to be a place for everyone to come as they are and unite under the title of ‘broken.’ I am definitely not better than anyone and 100% broken, which is why I need Jesus.

    ~Annah

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  21. Everything about the universe is trendy now because people, having lost faith in religion, had to place it elsewhere. Deep inside people want to believe, but they continue to try doing that with their intellect – and aliens are as far as it goes with that! Not God. I do think we can have a positive impact but beyond that it’s up to God. By loving our neighbors we are already doing plenty. God can turn anyone he wants at any given time. He’s done it to me. No one ever managed to convince and least convert me. 🙂

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    1. That’s a great point. They had to place it elsewhere. And I think you’re so right – people have an inherent longing to believe in something greater than themselves. Thanks for stopping by. Hugs and love xox

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  23. Fun fact for you: The Pope is on record saying that the existence of extraterrestrials does not preclude the existence of a deity.

    As for some of the theories out there, one that is gaining a lot of steam is panspermia and the alien astronaut theory.

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      1. Here’s where people get lost though: There are some people that would argue that some metaphorical accounts are UFO sightings. Some of which have merit if you read some of the Apocryphal texts.

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  26. I don’t know what’s on TV. I watch two non-news shows on my antenna TV. Neither of them deals with aliens. However, given the numbers, I’m guessing other life forms exist somewhere. I don’t understand why people confuse scientific evidence with religious belief. I’m not Christian, but I also don’t understand how my not believing in your God would harm Him. If He’s real, He’s far bigger than I am.

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  27. I didn’t know there were those many shows and talks about aliens. I don’t have cable and, on the other hand, I’m surrounded by engineers all day. They tend to be very pragmatic and aliens it’s something that they don’t have the time to think about.

    I thought it was more about vampires than aliens. At least, that’s what I seem to encounter the most. Even before the Twilight saga, it aeema that vampires are everywhere.

    That’s all I can comment about that. Now, concerning God, I may understand why many people stop believing. I am myself struggling right now. Many people like me prayed for all of their lives. We were taught that if you kept living by the Commandments, you would be rewarded and the Father would be with you at all times. Then things happen to you. I prayed to find someone to grow old with and I endes up in an abusive marriage. I prayed for a healthy child and with no autism, and my child has been diagnosed with autism. I prayed for my marriage to be saved, for my husband to change, only to be enmeshed in an ugly and nasty divorce. These things make me question, where is God. What happened? And when you go seek the support and advise of the Church, only to be slapped in the face again, then you start questioning if God even exists.

    I guess that many people end up facing difficult situations and circumstances that bring them to that point whete they cannot believe anymore.

    Add to that the things going on in the world. Children with ballooned bellies because they’re starving and they have worms in their insides. Famine, poverty, and genocide, as well as children suffering from cancer and so many other things. Terrorists in many places. Children learning to kill at an age when they should be playing and in school. Women being sold into sex trade, married off at 9 years old, or used and abused. And the list goes on. All those things make many people question God, whether He exists, or both. They ask themselves which kind of God allows for all that to happen, to let innocents suffer, for people to hurt.

    I don’t think the people I’m referring to believe in aliens because they stopped believing in God. But they stopped believing in Him because of all thise things and more. Add to that the fact that many priests, pastors in other denominations, and people who are supposed to spread the word of God abused of the very own people they were supposed to nurture spiritually.

    I guess thise are very compelling reasons to doubt the existence of God.

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    1. Thanks, Maria, for this powerful response. Gosh, I am so sorry that you’e had to go through those things. It makes my heart sad. And you’re right, there are a lot of tragic things in this life that can make people question God. All we can do is pray for those people that they can feel the comfort of God amidst their suffering. Thanks for sharing this powerful perspective. big hugs x

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      1. Forgive me for the lengthy response above to Maria, her comment just pulled at my heart. That was me when I was struggling to come to Christ and there was no one to guide me or point me to the Cross, I couldn’t leave a sister to wander away a lost sheep as I almost was. Praise God He held me, drew me, and secured me in spite of my lack of faith, he didn’t let me go, and now it is only to the cross of Christ I cling as I walk with my Father, with my Savior, filled with the Spirit.

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    2. I am very sorry that you have gone though difficult times and trials that have left your faith shaken, but please stand strong cling to the rock of God’s unshakeable love for you. For He does love you dearly, eternally, so much He died to restore you to oneness with Himself to save you eternally from the result of mankinds fallen nature. For through one man, Adam, sin entered the world and everything you mentioned above is a direct result of that sin (except possibly your son’s autism -which I know is a challenge and hard to understand but I truly believe God has something special in store for those on the spectrum, their minds are amazing, I know my son is on it.) All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, all means all, me, your husband, those priests, those who kill in a god’s name, you, all. I was a wretched broken mess before I came to know Christ and saw that nothing I do can ever save me. No matter how had I try to follow the Big 10, or be a good person – I am a sinner, even now, but the difference is that now I get it. Salvation isn’t about me and what I can do, it’s about God and what He did! It’s about the precious, powerful, cleansing blood of His only Son shed on the cross at Calvary once for the remission and covering of sin for all who truly believe that Jesus, the only begotten Son of God died for them. When a sinner truly believes that in their heart and repents of their sins turning from them and confessing Jesus as their Savior then they are saved, not by anything they will do but by God’s grace and mercy given to man through the cross and the following Resuurection of Christ from the grave assuring us of our eternal life and salvation with God. It is a daily process anew that turning thing, some days I am still less than Christ like, but everyday I put my faith in him to lead me and when I then allow my sweet Lord to do so He is faithful and sure to never forsake me even when I face trials and struggles. Some days though I try to take back control, those days are harHe leaves the choice to love der because He will never force me to give my life to him, so He has no choice but to let me sin, struggle and ultimately fall at the cross clinging in desperation to the only hope I have in this world – Christ. God doesn’t want any of us to sin, He never wanted Adam to, or anyone else but he gave us free will, he gave us choice. He wants us to love Him and want Him as he does us, but He leaves that decision up to each of us. After all what kind of love would it be if we were forced to love Him, forced to want to be in relationship with Him, forced to accept the free gift of eternity with the Light, the Savior of the world. Along with loving him comes obedience, a desire to live in a way that is pleasing to Him, but living that way is not forced on those who do not choose God, sHope, and Loveo they sin, they live without God and reject His laws, His love and His fellowship. Which is what Adam did when he took that bite, your husband when he choose not to stay with your marriage and those leaders who turned their backs on their flocks. But as Adam repented and turned back to His first love God, so can we when we mess up, when we see that we are broken, straying or were never really walking with the Lord at all. Sin and rebellion are the cause of evil and hurt in the world, not God our Father, Creator, Savior, Hope; He just let’s us have what we want, our way, even though it breaks His heart because He knows that there will always be some who see the Light, who turn from the darkness and embrace Grace, Hope and Love -who come to him on bended knee with lifted hands crying “God have mercy on me a sinner! Forgive me, Jesus, save me! “. God enters into relationship with everyone who asks Him to and that is how you change the world, by walking in the Light. Not by blaming God who cries, who hurts, and who died to save you from this world that is broken, sinful, lost. A world He loved but that rejected Him.

      Maria, you’re comment spoke to my heart and please do not think I am out of line, but I heard echoes of myself a few years ago in what you wrote and simply am saying what I wish someone had said to me back then. God loves you, I will be praying for you Sister that you are restored in your faith and if you need to talk, cry, pray, whatever I will not turn my back as others may have done. You may message me at aR3volut1on@outlook.com anytime.

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  28. You know when I was a kid I asked my grandmother what she thought about aliens. Her reply to me I will never forget. She said, The Bible speaks of heaven, hell, and earth.” She also said, “It was earth that He put human beings on. There is no life on other planets.” I have always thought about that when the subject of other life forms come into conversation. To me she actually said it best.

    As far as speaking about God to others, I do feel this is needed, at the correct times and moments. When it is not received though we need to be like Jesus when He was teaching the Eucharist. “He let them (the scoffers) go in their disbelief.” He never called those people back to Him and tried to push the belief that He is truly in the Bread and Wine. He simply let them go and then asked Peter, “Are you going to leave me to?”

    God will never allow Himself to be “buried” by anyone. After all He is our creator. Look what He did to Israel when they tried to “bury” Him. When someone turns from Him, and denies Him, our duty is to pray for them, and let them go. I pray for reprobate souls every single day.

    I used to think I could “save the world.” As years past I realized I could not. So I begin to focus on those in my community and life. Those who God gave to me to help, pray for, and just be a friend/daughter/sister to. I am happy and at peace with that. The world is far too big a place for me, but it is not too big to pray for, and have faith and hope in God, that He’s got it. Still praying for you and your Mom. Many congrats on book. Love you much and God Bless, SR

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    1. Wow, your grandmother was one smart woman 🙂 Thanks for this awesome response. you’re so right – God is incapable of being buried. Sure, people can walk away from Him, but He will never be outdone. And you’re right – we are to pray for those people. Thanks for stopping by and sharing this powerful food for thought. and thanks again for your prayers 🙂 big big hugs xox

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      1. Yes she was a very smart, loving, kind woman, that is until she told you something and you did not do it! 🙂 My family is pretty down to earth, as you can probably tell. They raised us all very well, and I have always been so glad through the years I had those roots to fall back on. I will be doing a post about my “pa-nanner” next week, I want you to read. It is how my mother taught me how not to throw a fit. I think you will like it. Will probably post Tuesday or Wednesday. I will take those “big big hugs.” Back to you and God Bless, SR

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  30. Excellent post as always Carolyn.. I do have answer for you.. Its very simple… People, society as a whole is “all about me”.. There is no room for God because everyone is about themselves and what ‘they feel’ and ‘think should be right”.. .Truth, which we both know IS God is gone and out the window… Society as a whole is self absorbed.. No room for God…

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  32. I hear you. Hearing someone use “the universe” in the place of “God” is incredibly annoying. I actually questioned someone about it once. I asked what they meant by “the universe.” She said, “You know, the universal consciousness.” I replied, ‘Oh, you mean God?” No, she said, not God, just a consciousness. That was all she had. I reminded her that God is conscious and, like you, asked her to be brave and use the word God. Who are we worried about offending? Whoever they are, I guarantee they’re not equally worried about offending Christians. It’s a strange phenomenon. Re. aliens, I think they really are trendy, as you said, but not a coincidence that belief in God is sinking while belief in aliens is climbing. The two go hand-in-hand. A country stripped of spirituality will believe in anything. That said, are you aware that Neil Armstrong (allegedly) said he and his crew mates saw an alien base on the dark side of the moon, and were warned by aliens to never come back? I heard that the other day and freaked out. I mean, some guy in a cornfield is one thing, but a retired astronaut who doesn’t need fame or money, risking ruining his reputation? Maybe the rise in belief in UFO’S/aliens is just a logical reaction to the increasing number of credible people who are claiming they exist. Some say they’re demons. I hope we have a chance to find out the truth soon, and I hope it doesn’t end up horribly for humans, as Stephen Hawking says it very well might. (And yes, I realize I just dumped a lot of information and questions into this comment. Sorry. You got me thinking. lol )

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    1. Thanks so much for this response, Mark. Good for you for following up in the conversation and asking her to explain! that’s pretty awesome. I think one of the best quotes I’ve ever heard was” If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything” — including aliens. haha. OH SHOOT! I didn’t know that about Neil Armstrong! that’s pretty crazy. *scurries off to Google* hah thanks for stopping by. big hugs x

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      1. I read that he said “Santa Claus exists” in a transmission to Houston, which was code for “aliens”!!! 😛

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  33. Great post. Funny, or maybe not, my elder son, age 41,and I were texting. His mother and I divorced when he was 2. This was before I became Catholic. He said he would give all that he had to have his mother and I back together again. What does this have to do with your topic? That maybe this rejection of all traditional values is catching up with us. Let’s pray it does

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  34. Check out the structures at 2:03 and 2:21. I think stuff like this is why people are going crazy about aliens.

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  35. I don’t stay too much in pop culture, and I don’t have Netflix, so I wasn’t as aware that aliens were the new in vogue thing. (Unicorns, yep, knew about that one). But I have been keenly aware of how un-PC God has become, and it’s terrifying. I hope to raise my kids with strong enough characters to be able to be bold for Him. I fear for the world they will inherit.

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  36. Good post! I would talk more but I have just been abducted by Aliens who look like a translucent blob of jello and talk like a tomato…weird, huh? 🙂

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  38. We as believers do need to be bold about our faith, to show the world we are not ashamed. I agree with many about why folks are so into aliens but ultimately I believe that it is all part of Satan’s deception on this world. The ground work is being laid in the world for the world leader(s) to explain away the disappearance of millions of followers of Christ in the coming rapture of His bride the Church. Think of the sudden rise as you mentioned and consider my studies on the Revelation 12 sign which is a key rapture text which points to Sept. of this very year and it makes sense. When meet Jesus in the clouds then the final world king or Antichrist (Rev. 13, also in Dan. 9, Matt. 24, Mark and Luke among other scriptures) will rise up and say that it was a mass abduction, possibly saying a cleansing of all who would deny the coming world system, Satan’s system during the following 7 years of Daniels 70th week, the final half of which is the Great Tribulation when God’s wrath will be poured out on the world that has denied him in favor of worshiping ole Slewfoot, the serpent.

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  39. I love the thought that not everyone has completely ditched their faith! I am from a small town and everyone believed in god. It took me joining the military to meet an atheist and realize that religion is actually not as common as I thought. My small minded self almost fell out of my chair the first time someone said they don’t believe in god. I was like “but aren’t you afraid of hell!!!” I was 17 and very naive.

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    1. thanks so much for sharing this. Yeah, that’s still my gut reaction too! it’s a scary thought to behold for sure. so glad you stopped by. i hope you have a beautiful night. and also: thanks for your service to our country!! 🙂 big hugs x

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  40. God is always calling us to him.
    When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek. Psalms 27:8
    The Bible is not the Word of God: Christ is and He is within you.

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  41. I think part of the problem is that Christians have forgotten that Jesus is Lord! We have taken a Platonian and Epicurean view of God, pushing upstairs into the attic, while we the top of the food chain run things down here. Oh! We’re okay with God breaking in once in a while– But heaven forbid, he actually be relevant or even necessary. Christianity has become watered down with the Middle Ages idea of Heaven and Hell. We have lost the idea of new creation which is the entire theme of the New Testament. As C. S. Lewis so splendidly put it: “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

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  42. This is indeed scary, like the world is moving into the church. I guess the hope I can hold on to is that ‘all things always work out for good,’ and that even in an increasingly secularized world, God always hides for himself a remnant of saints. Wouldn’t it be awesome to be counted as part of that remnant? Blessings

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  43. But as you said yourself, “how could I be so small minded to believe that we’re the only form of life in the entire universe”? Most people feel a similar way.

    When anyone does a study, they are trying to get a particular outcome. I’m not sure of the parameters of this particular survey, where, when, or how the questions were asked…. but I do know that most people, when asked if they believe in the possibility of alien life in the universe, they aren’t immediately thinking “Yup, grey men. 100%”. They are thinking “yeah, there’s most certainly micro-organisms on other planets”.

    Asking people whether they believe in the possibility of life in space & whether they believe in Hollywood’s idea of “Aliens” are pretty different, and one seems a pretty clear Strawman for the other.

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  44. Great read. I feel like people don’t like to believe there’s a God because that requires adhering ourselves to a standard of humility wrapped in truth and love through Jesus, and not the “all about me” lifestyle of pride. Aliens, like a lot of other things, are convenient distractions that don’t require that humility with truth & love. I’m with you!

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  45. What a blessing your blog posts have been to me and to everyone else! God is using you greatly sis! Keep marching!

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  46. Yes, it is so important to keep God in the picture! We, already, know that God created “aliens”, it is obvious when we read Genisis and Job and many other chapters of the Bible. But, to keep on the subject of keeping God in the picture, check out these wonderful sites that provide great interest concerning Moses and the Exodus. This information will help to show evidence that God and His word is true.

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  47. “We’ve got to keep God in the conversation. Because if we don’t, then who will?” Yes! I hope this encourages everyone who reads it because it sure encouraged me! Loved the post!

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  48. In view of the fact that the definition of “alien” is: “relating to or denoting beings supposedly from other worlds; extraterrestrial” and the fact that God didn’t originate on our fair planet, God is, by definition, an alien. If anyone should believe in aliens, at least, in an alien – it’s Christians. Jesus, however, is not an alien. Or maybe he’s a half-alien?

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