A few days ago, Stranger Theology published a piece I wrote on UFOs, aliens, and demons. Here’s a snippet:
Recently The New York Times published an interesting article on how some Christians are reacting to the government’s release of records about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). The piece highlights how for some in the church the very thought of extraterrestrial existence poses “unsettling theological implications,” adding further how these believers “worry that it undercuts the Bible’s account of the Earth and humanity as the centerpiece of God’s plan for the universe.”[1]
A comment from one pastor quoted in the article struck me as particularly interesting:
“This is going to force people to decide, either God is real and Christianity is real and the supernatural is real, or this alien thing is real.”
This is a sweeping claim.
I understand why Christians would have questions, but I must confess that I disagree with this pastor’s assessment.
Why must a person choose between theism (the belief in God) and the existence of aliens? These two ideas are by no means mutually exclusive. There’s certainly no logical problem with combining the proposition that God exists with the proposition that aliens exist…
Read the entire piece here.
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