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I think that larger forces are actually the main contributors to the slow collapse of the Catholic Church and other Christian and Jewish congregations: The security of Western Society: the values of Secular Humanism -- "Common-Sense-Nice-Guy-ism" -- with which our media inculcates us, day in and day out, on computer and television screens; the preoccupying power of ubiquitous screen programming; the almost irresistible allure of contraceptive-protected sexual pleasure, which some churches -- most of all, the Catholic Church, with Humanae Vitae -- are opposed to; and finally the great Catholic and Protestant church sex scandals, in which those priests and ministers who were attracted to the clerical function as a good hiding place for their pre-wired sexual mis-inclinations -- "He doesn't date much because he has a vocation" -- become the "wolves in sheep's clothing," caving-in to the terrible forces within and start grabbing and engaging in various sex acts with the gullible lambs in their flock -- almost always young males, despite the fact that female altar servers have outnumbered the male servers for decades.
And so I think that Catholics or other Christians falling-away because of "ancient alien" ideation are more akin to sickly and weak young being culled from the wildebeest herd by leopards -- the "weakest link" Christians whose faith has already been eroded because of the less exotic influences listed above.
I, personally, spent years wrestling with the problem of the UFO Abduction Phenomenon, which I am absolutely certain at this point isn't an "alien" phenomenon at all, but rather an interestingly-organized-and-modernized form of demonic possession, which I will write-about in the future. (I maintain that I can prove that the UFO Abduction Phenomenon is a demonic phenomenon predicted in inspired Scripture.)
But, I watch Ancient Aliens myself not because I think that there were ancient aliens, but rather because I am an amateur epigrapher, and the program Ancient Aliens comprises a fascinating collection of ruins and inscriptions -- the subject matter of epigraphy -- from around the world.
I have to admit that, years ago, I was astonished by, and stumped by, some of the things we see in the Ancient Aliens program -- mostly, the enormous walls of interlocking stone blocks around the world ...
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However, I began to come across bits and pieces of evidence respecting seemingly-impossible ancient megalithic stonework, suggesting that humans could have done it, not ancient aliens with super-duper stone-cutting "photon torpedoes" and lasers and with stone-lifting "tractor beams."
(1) If you look at the megalithic walls, there are relatively consistent patterns in the construction work which accommodate human weakness and the need to economize on construction costs ...
(a) The biggest stones are almost always on the bottom course, so that the builders need only have raised them up by tilting them into position -- not by lifting them into place by "tractor beams" from flying saucers.
(b) It takes very little imagination to see how the builders relied on easy access of the upper surfaces of in-place lower stone courses to cut the notching on them to accommodate the angular shape of upper-course stones placed upon them. In other words, most of the actual corners are cut-into the lower-course stone's upper surface. Where it is the upper-course stone which has the angle cut into it, that stone is small enough to cut, turn-over, and place upon the stone beneath it. In other words, you rarely-if-ever sea a "jillion ton" stone with amazing angular cuts on the bottom edge which would have then had to have been lowered into place with some kind of hyper-powerful lifting force.
(2) The Epigraphic Society had a tongue-in-cheek saying: "Just because we don't know how they did it doesn't mean that 'aliens did it.'"
Easter Island turned out to be the perfect case-in-point substantiating that logic.
Despite the fact that the Ancient Aliens program included the enormous, wonderful statues of Easter Island as examples of ancient stone work which probably could only have been cut and moved by ancient aliens, explorer/archaelogist Thor Heyerdahl's 1958 book, Aku Aku, tells how Mr. Heyerdahl simply asked the people of Easter Island to please show him how their ancient ancestors made the statues, and how they happily took out their little stone-age stone tools and cut him a large statue out of solid rock, as he watched and photographed them doing it !
See? See? No photon torpedoes or lasers necessary !
Above, Easter Islanders photographed by Thor Heyerdahl in the act of cutting him a large Easter Island style statue out of a cliff on their island with their little stone tools. No photon torpedoes or lasers necessary!
Then, they raised it up for him, using sticks, dust, pebbles and rocks !
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See? See? No tractor beams from alien space ships were necessary !
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(3) With respect to "aliens" portrayed in ancient rock art ...
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... the Ancient Aliens program argues that the ancient artists "simply painted what they saw -- aliens." Shouldn't it bother us that Ancient Aliens portrays the world as "the Grand Central Station" of alien visitations, with dozens of different aliens wafting-in from all over the place, troubling our ancestors -- so that Earth looked more like the Men in Black headquarters in the movie? ...
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Where are these dozens of different species of "aliens"? What -- did the world fall out of favor as an "alien vacation spot"?
The bottom line message to all, here, is "Don't start breaking out the candles and worshiping supposed ancient alien visitors."
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