Raëlism

[url=http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism]http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism[/url] Things I found interesting and kept rigining PROMETHEUS in my head!!! - Raëlism is a religion that believes all living things were created by extraterrestrial beings. It was founded in France by Raël (aka Claude Vorilhon) in 1974 and grew to be known as "the largest UFO religion in the world". It made news in 2002 when the Raëlian corporation Clonaid claimed it had cloned a human baby. Bible interpretation [i](aka the Raëlism bible, not the one you're thinking of)[/i] - - - In the beginning Elohim created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1 The alien claimed that "Elohim" does not mean "God", but "Those who came from the sky" and that "created" really means "discovered". - - - - - - And the spirit of Elohim moved across the waters. Genesis 1:2 This refers to "reconnaissance flights" made by the alien scientists, and to artificial satellites they placed around Earth to study it. - - - - - - Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place and let dry land appear. Genesis 1:9 The aliens used explosions that "acted rather like bulldozers" to pile the seabed into one place to create land. - - - - - - Of every tree in the garden you may eat, but of the tree of good and evil you shall not eat of it, for on the day that you eat of it, you shall die. Genesis 2:17, Some people on the aliens' home planet were angry that a new intelligent species was being created. The aliens on Earth had to agree to leave them in a primitive state and deny them access to advanced science. Unfortunately, a renegade group of aliens disagreed and gave humans access to the forbidden knowledge. - - - - - - Now that man has become one of us... Genesis 3:22 The aliens know of a way to prolong human life, but they hid it from humans out of fear. - - - - - - So he drove out man and placed at the East of the garden of Eden the Cherubim and a flaming sword... Genesis 3:24 This refers to "Soldiers with atomic disintegration weapons" who guarded the creators' residence to prevent humans stealing more knowledge. You get the picture. The flood turns out to be a barrage of nuclear missiles that caused a tidal wave on Earth, and the ark was really a spaceship containing a single cell of each living creature — a fact that explains the movement's ongoing interest in cloning. The Tower of Babel was a metaphor for taking the Jews (who had most scientific knowledge) and scattering them amongst more primitive tribes. Sodom and Gomorrah were two towns that successfully retained scientific knowledge. The two angels were spies who blinded their attackers with pocket atomic weapons and the destruction of the cities was caused by atomic bombs. The sacrifice of Abraham is another metaphor: the alien creators wanted to test that humanity was now sufficiently scared of them. Fortunately for all of us, they were. The upshot of all this is that the aliens now think humans might be ready for the hidden knowledge but they want us to prove it. - - - What do you guys think?