Ufology’s Proto-Atheists

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It’s the Ancient Alien/Astronaut crowd.

I try to watch The History Channel’s Ancient Aliens show (older broadcasts on A&E network too), but it’s difficult to sit through the offerings.

I’ve mentioned, here, the fellows who regularly offer commentary for the program: Childress (who is fond of saying “You have to wonder…”), Wilcock (whose crooked mouth, lopsided teeth are hard to accept speaking verities), Martell (just sappy), and Tsoukalos (whose hair I like), et al.

The hypothesis being, as you know, that extraterrestrials visited this Earth in the past and (usually) provided aid and comfort to early humans. The ETs were the “gods” that early man worshipped.

As a person steeped in theological precepts, I’m inclined to see gods and God as the entities that interacted with humans early on (and continually until the demise of Jesus/Christ).

To some, that is just as mad (crazy) as the ETH of the ancient astronaut people.

But is it?

Following the theological precepts of Anselm and Teilhard de Chardin, I accept a divine presence in the Universe or as the Universe, a “being” or principle always in existence, eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, infinite, “a being than which nothing greater can be conceived.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_argument

Seeing the early manifestations of God (or the gods) in ancient cultures (writings, languages, et cetera) as beings coming from the sky, from other worlds is an easier belief system, for some, as it has a ring of possibility about it, for them.

The system removes God as the center of creation in its spurious way: God played no part in man’s creation and evolution is side-stepped along the way.

The AA ETH is, of course, a possibility, but one that is peculiar in that Earth, as I often note here, is so insignificant (remote in the cosmos) that an advanced species spending time here, in the amount proffered by the AA crowd, is an illogic, mad idea at the outset; supposed advanced alien visitors would have to be insane to delve into human activity to the extent that the AA people suggest.

But it remains a possibility.

An omniscient God interacting with humans is also a possibility, one that stretches credulity, for some, also.

But how else can we accept our existence and reality? We and everything that is had to come from somewhere and something (God).

Evolution doesn’t do it for me, even as I accept the Darwinian process.

Unfortunately, the godhead worshipped by early man, especially the Hebrews, was a demiurge (demiurgos).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism

This has caused theological, intellectual mayhem, and I suggest it’s that mayhem which has permeated the thinking of the AA crowd who have dispensed with God, thus becoming atheists in practice and their personal reality.

The men spouting AA belief never approach the topic of (their) atheism. It would kill their “movement” with many who follow them, unknowing that the AA people are espousing a non-belief in God, the being at the center of all religions extant.

When push comes to shove, most who visit here are God believers I think and the AA movement is just a passing fancy clinging to the UFO phenomenon, tenaciously but also tenuously, as the idea that visiting aliens who once came here in droves apparently have not shown themselves since the earliest of times, UFOs being vehicles, for some, of ETs come to visit passively, without any interest in humans that one can see in the so-called UFO visitations today.

RR