Raelians Push White House for Alien Embassy to Save Humanity

[cbayer]

http://religiondispatches.org/raelians-push-white-house-for-alien-embassy-to-save-humanity/

BY JOSEPH LAYCOCK APRIL 6, 2015

Although it seems like a late April Fool’s prank, a press release from the Raelian movement on April 2 announced that they were delivering a project file to the White House with plans to construct an embassy for extraterrestrial visitors. Copies of the file were also given to the State Department and the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Raelian movement has insisted for decades that Earth’s survival depends on the creation of such an embassy. The arrival of benevolent aliens will inaugurate a messianic age of peace; but if humans fail to build the embassy by a certain date, we will destroy ourselves. A petition to build an embassy of this kind has nearly 3,000 signatures, revealing that many are still compelled by the idea of salvation in a flying saucer.

The UFO phenomenon began in June 1947 when Kenneth Arnold reported seeing disk-like objects in the sky while flying past Mount Rainier in Washington State. Almost immediately, UFO enthusiasts connected the sightings to the advent of nuclear weapons and millennial expectations. One month after the Arnold sighting, the Buchanan Brothers sang:

And though the war may be through there’s unrest and trouble brewin’

And those flying saucers may be just a sign

That if peace doesn’t come it will be the end of some

So repent today, you’re running out of time

The man known as Rael (née Claude Vorilhon) incorporated the same elements of UFOs, nuclear anxiety, and Biblical prophecy. Rael allegedly encountered space aliens in 1973, who warned him that humanity had entered the “Age of Apocalypse” following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

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[DetlefK]

1. To quote "Married, with children":

"Build it, and they will come."

[cbayer]

2. I knew of this from Field of Dreams, but had to research the Married with Children reference.

Hilarious. Sounds like a Simpsons episode.

[longship]

3. Of course the Raelians are saying this.

That's just what weird UFO cults do.

Of course, they also provide ample opportunity for comedic entertainment. So they have that going for them.


There should be an Internet law just for the Raelians similar to Poe's law. They truly are cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

[cbayer]

4. I didn't even know they were still around.

Last I heard was about their Clitoraid hospital.

OTOH, it is interesting that some support them because they feel this is the only way to solve our global warming concerns.

[struggle4progress]

5. Lessee ...

Celebrate as a major holiday their founder's 1973 meeting with extraterrestrials? Check!

Planning to build an interstellar embassy? Check!

Expect a great future based on human cloning used with mind transfer technology? Check!

Use a swastika/star-of-David combo? Check!

Oh, and hope to clone Hitler? Check!

It's really surprising they don't have a wider following ...