(August 1, 2016 at 11:42 am)Mathilda Wrote: Can't help thinking that it would make a good plot for some B-movie style Sci-fi comedy, where a mayor or sheriff from a small village is kidnapped by aliens and replaced with an imposter who can't convincingly pass themselves off as human. Everybody realises but prefers the new version anyway so doesn't say anything.
Make him a priest. The alien impostor - who may be a true gnostic atheist - has to make sense of religion and perhaps create a new, improved version of spirituality and morality, based on alien knowledge and compatible with reason and facts - a way to create a better society and put an end to fear, hatred and prejudice, which he then imparts to his new flock...
And then the peasants bludgeon him to death with sticks...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
