This is very interesting: two guys back in 2009 decided to make a prank/ social experiment. They released in the night sky several glowing helium balloons and immediately people got very excited thinking it's aliens. TV stations started to cover it on TV as UFOs, "UFO experts" from MUFON started to claim how these lights in a dark sky can not be of Earth origin/ man-made, and when the perpetrators admit it is all a hoax people don't believe them and claim that they are CIA agents who are lying to cover up the actual alien visitation.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
