[Another fundie has mentioned the conspiracy theorists who claim oddly shaped rocks on Mars are really aliens.]
As someone who believes that demons masquerade as "aliens", and are allowed by God to deceive humans, I find it plausible that they could have messed around with the surfaces of planets and laid strange objects out in order to further the alien lie (of course, some of them are just funny looking rocks [goofy smiley] ) That may sound crazy, but it's actually less crazy than denying there is a Creator God, and believing that matter spontaneously came from nothing and then organized itself into complex life without Someone giving it instructions to do so.
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If you've seen faces in the clouds, you know how easy it is to see patterns and objects. Much the same can be said of religion: you don't understand biochemistry and evolution, so you see things that aren't really there.
Simple, dead matter forming from nothing is patently absurd. An all-knowing, all-powerful super conciousness developing absent any form of stimulus, however, is apparently perfectly reasonable.
We frequently hear the "if life sprang from nothing, why don't we see it happening today" argument from theists with no understanding of what the theory they reject actually entails (they'd shit themselves if they understood the more relevant field of quantum mechanics beyond "it's magic"). I would like to turn that around. So! If omnipotent superbeings can just poof into existence from nothing then why don't we see any new gods taking form today?
Of course the flaws in this line of logic are obvious to anyone capable of engaging in more than five seconds of critical thought without needing to take an extended break but it is nevertheless the line of logic that they have chosen to embrace.
" ... As someone who believes that demons masquerade as "aliens", and are allowed by God to deceive humans ... "
It's a pity that an all-loving god would not protect his slaves from the nasty demons ...
"There's no way people could see patterns in nature that aren't really there, therefore demons."
@Kanna
I read "it's actually less crazy than thinking there's a Creator God, and believing that matter spontaneously came from nothing" and thought, "wow, a RR is making sense". But no, s/he didn't, of course.
That may sound crazy,
Yes. Yes, it does.
but it's actually less crazy than denying there is a Creator God, and believing that matter spontaneously came from nothing and then organized itself into complex life without Someone giving it instructions to do so.
A) That's abiogenesis, not evolution. Different fields of study.
"matter spontaneously came from nothing and then organized itself into complex life without Someone giving it instructions to do so."
Where did god come from? Did he spontaneously come from nothing without Someone giving him instructions to do so?
>[Another fundie has mentioned the conspiracy theorists who claim oddly shaped rocks on Mars are really aliens.]
Maybe those rocks are demons, since the Antichrist is more of a crystalline substance than an actual person: https://melba.bandcamp.com/track/monkeying-around-with-americas-future
Brother Russell wouldn't lie...except like to crazy preachers who host radio talk shows.
Why "strange objects"? Why not a demon strolling along with a golf bag on his shoulder? It's only Mars, hardly an obstacle to your mythical characters.
@Frogflayer
I loved that show,, found about a season last year on Youtube, stands up better than most shows from then. Uncle Martin was an amazing character, my eighty year old gramma loved it back then too.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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