RE: Stupid things religious people say
May 12, 2026 at 8:09 am
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Christian Leaders Offer Biblical Explanation for Pentagon UFO Images
Two Christian leaders – Jeremiah J. Johnston of the Christian Thinkers Society and Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship in California – say the biblical worldview offers a far different framework for understanding the unexplained phenomena.
“The moment someone spots something unexplained in the sky, the cultural default is immediately ‘aliens from outer space,’” Laurie asserted. “But what if the better explanation isn't extraterrestrial – but extra-dimensional? What if what we're dealing with isn't from another planet, but from another realm entirely – the spiritual realm?”
Both Laurie and Johnston suggested that the images could depict angels or demons (sometimes called fallen angels).
“So when a pastor asks me, ‘Do I believe there is intelligent life beyond Earth?’ my answer is: of course,” Johnston wrote. “The Bible has told us so for millennia. The heavens are teeming with intelligent beings. We call them angels. We call them principalities. We call them powers. Scripture names them. Jesus spoke of them. Paul wrote letters about them.”
“A wheel within a wheel,” Laurie added. “Gleaming like beryl. Moving instantly in any direction without turning. I don't know exactly what Ezekiel saw – but I know it was real, it was other-worldly, and it wasn't from Mars. It was a manifestation of the living God and His angelic host – and by every modern technical definition, it was an Unidentified Flying Object.”
Johnston said from his perspective, UFOs fall into four categories: 1) Misidentified objects such as ice crystals or tricks of light, 2) classified human technology, 3) angelic activity, and 4) demonic activity.
“Now, if holy angels can appear this way, what do you suppose fallen angels are capable of? Billy Graham put it well in his landmark book Angels – we should not be surprised if demonic forces counterfeit supernatural phenomena in order to deceive,” Laurie wrote. “The enemy has always been in the business of imitation. He masquerades as an angel of light. Why wouldn't he masquerade as something that captures the imagination of a generation that has largely traded the spiritual for the scientific?”
Johnston said society’s growing fascination with UFOs may signal a culture increasingly vulnerable to spiritual deception.
“A generation conditioned by Hollywood to expect cosmic visitors is a generation primed for deception,” Johnston wrote. “If the enemy of our souls – who Scripture says masquerades as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14) – wanted to engineer a worldview-shattering event for the modern secular mind, what better stage prop than a sky full of unexplained lights and a culture desperate to believe in something, anything, beyond itself?”
https://www.crosswalk.com/headlines/cont...mages.html
Two Christian leaders – Jeremiah J. Johnston of the Christian Thinkers Society and Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship in California – say the biblical worldview offers a far different framework for understanding the unexplained phenomena.
“The moment someone spots something unexplained in the sky, the cultural default is immediately ‘aliens from outer space,’” Laurie asserted. “But what if the better explanation isn't extraterrestrial – but extra-dimensional? What if what we're dealing with isn't from another planet, but from another realm entirely – the spiritual realm?”
Both Laurie and Johnston suggested that the images could depict angels or demons (sometimes called fallen angels).
“So when a pastor asks me, ‘Do I believe there is intelligent life beyond Earth?’ my answer is: of course,” Johnston wrote. “The Bible has told us so for millennia. The heavens are teeming with intelligent beings. We call them angels. We call them principalities. We call them powers. Scripture names them. Jesus spoke of them. Paul wrote letters about them.”
“A wheel within a wheel,” Laurie added. “Gleaming like beryl. Moving instantly in any direction without turning. I don't know exactly what Ezekiel saw – but I know it was real, it was other-worldly, and it wasn't from Mars. It was a manifestation of the living God and His angelic host – and by every modern technical definition, it was an Unidentified Flying Object.”
Johnston said from his perspective, UFOs fall into four categories: 1) Misidentified objects such as ice crystals or tricks of light, 2) classified human technology, 3) angelic activity, and 4) demonic activity.
“Now, if holy angels can appear this way, what do you suppose fallen angels are capable of? Billy Graham put it well in his landmark book Angels – we should not be surprised if demonic forces counterfeit supernatural phenomena in order to deceive,” Laurie wrote. “The enemy has always been in the business of imitation. He masquerades as an angel of light. Why wouldn't he masquerade as something that captures the imagination of a generation that has largely traded the spiritual for the scientific?”
Johnston said society’s growing fascination with UFOs may signal a culture increasingly vulnerable to spiritual deception.
“A generation conditioned by Hollywood to expect cosmic visitors is a generation primed for deception,” Johnston wrote. “If the enemy of our souls – who Scripture says masquerades as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14) – wanted to engineer a worldview-shattering event for the modern secular mind, what better stage prop than a sky full of unexplained lights and a culture desperate to believe in something, anything, beyond itself?”
https://www.crosswalk.com/headlines/cont...mages.html
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"
