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Death and Aliens
One of the problems I still have to sort with my family of origin’s religion is the need of a Messiah. I have evidence for personal interventions, yes, more than one, but I wouldn’t slap a Jesus face on it and call it packaged and done. My interventions were personal. They are not relevant or translatable outside of my reality frame. They didn’t come directly, like lightening or burning bushes, but there is no mistaking it for delusion or wishful thinking. Not everyone gets an intervention. People die. How do I corelate this?
In a Scientific American article, Michael Shermer addresses the question Is belief in aliens a religious impulse? He is an author I admire. He tackles some heavy stuff, like abortion- not a moral issue, it’s just a problem to be solved. The death part feels like a moral issue to me, but I also see he is right, it’s a problem, it needs to be solved. Maybe all problems are just math that need to be solved, no morality necessary. You can favor life, and still explore better options to birth control, while affording both women and men dignity and sovereignty.
It interests me that Shermer wrote this story in 2017, when UFOs became prevalent in the public domain, again. One of the problems I have is the question he poses, though a good question, seems to deny there is a physical aspect of…
