wow... great. so what do you make of it all today? demon? what would that even mean? Jesus as our spiritual bodyguard? maybe, but how would that actually work? ( not saying that you're saying just wanting to know what you think)
And what do you make of please personal/ spiritual transformation over the years?
I had to touch back on this subject matter because of the idiocy heard on Sam Tripoli's podcast, "Tin Foil Hat," episode #440 with Joseph Jordan. First of all, I love Tripoli's podcast. That is how I found out about Skeptiko. Also, Alex, you are awesome in episode #441 of "Tin Foil Hat," great listen!
Now let us get into the meat of the matter. For the longest time, I have heard Christians say that there are no aliens, only "powers and principalities," or some other kind of nonsensical description of any kind of unusual circumstance that supposedly should drive one toward "God's word," which is always, unquestionably unquestionable, the Bible.
Honestly, I don't know if my Mom really saw an alien open her bedroom door as she was reading the Bible, then tell it to "leave in the name of Jesus," then it subsequently left. She told me that this happened. I believe that she saw something, because she was terrified when telling me the story. Also, it is confirmed that my father drew this creature by her description, then burned this drawing when the neighbors became involved in this "visitation" problem where we grew up. They believed the house needed to be "cleansed" of this "evil" energy. Also, they claim that these same creatures showed up later, during prayer, but left soon after, seen out the bay window of the house.
Nevertheless, I certainly am not Christian, nor have I ever felt like the idea of Christianity is attractive to me. I feel compelled to describe, in detail, why Christianity feels like a dirty, unflushed, public toilet, to me. First and foremost, the idea of a God needing to send his Son to earth, to be beaten, then crucified by idiots, somehow redeems them if they accept that this is what saves them, MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE AT ALL TO ME!
Even when I was five years old, I knew this made absolutely no sense at all. That story, by itself, should be highly questionable. It sounds like the initiation rights into a straight up cult! Often, when speaking of MK-ultra or any of these other crazy experiments, they are about creating some kind of extreme trauma to disassociate one's psyche from one's self. What could be more disassociating than believing that God sends his son to be beaten, tortured, and killed by a bunch of crazy assholes.......and if you don't believe this happened, you will not have eternal life? Also, you must believe these things happened to God's son or this God is going to forget about you and make you burn eternally? What kind of God does these things? How does this making any sense at all?
Let us get back to this "God's word" nonsense. If it is written down, in a book, internet page, or even inscribed on a rock.....it is no longer God's word. When I hear about people saying "how lost" they were before they found some book, then I can see this is somebody who has never practiced any kind of reasonable introspection. Also, descriptions as to why God created the devil make absolutely no sense at all. The stupidest excuse of all is that "God didn't want to create us as robots, and he wanted to give us a choice."
What kind of a megalomaniac, lunatic God says: hey, existence is bliss and perfect, but I need to create a creature called the devil that is eternally damned. Also, I am going to create one book where you can learn about this shit, along with a son that needs to be tortured and killed by idiots that follow this devil that I created, but I will resurrect him. Also, you need to believe in all this dumb shit without question or I will damn you. If anybody asks why I came up with all this crazy nonsense, tell them that this is the only way that I could have given people free will. So, you can choose to be on my side, or you can pick all these fucking booby traps that I set up.......and if you pick the traps, then that was your free will. If I didn't set it up this way, then I would have just been creating robots.
Granted, this is a perspective. Maybe the Alien did leave my Mom's room in the name of Jesus, and possessed me, making me a demon from hell. At least, I am allowing all the Christians to believe such a thing so that they can keep their faith without question.