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From: campbell@ufomind.com (Glenn Campbell, Las Vegas) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 00:40:13 -0800 Subject: U.S. preachers warn aliens are the devil's agents |
Date: Sat, 5 JUL 1997 16:50:36 PDT
Subject: U.S. preachers warn aliens are the devil's agents
ROSWELL N.M., (Reuter) - Some preachers in this New Mexico
town where aliens allegedly landed 50 years ago say Satan is
behind the growing belief in extraterrestrial life.
Pastor Jim Suttle of Roswell's non-denominational Calvary
Chapel said Saturday that the tens of thousands of people who
have flocked to Roswell's UFO spectacular this week were drawn
by the devil's ``alien minions.''
``People are looking to UFOs as a replacement for God,''
said Suttle, organizer of a conference giving a Christian spin
on aliens. ``This is Satan distracting people from the Lord.''
Stan Crosby, organizer of the six-day UFO extravaganza
marking an alleged alien crash landing in the desert near here
July 4, 1947, brushed off the criticism and said the event
allows preachers to spread their message even wider.
``If aliens show up here let them (preachers) try to convert
them ... if not, they're free to spread the word to the
tourists,'' Crosby said.
Chuck Missler, a Christian minister from Idaho, has come
here to do just that. Missler, lead speaker at the Alien
Encounters conference, said aliens are ``fallen angels'' from
another earthly dimension rather than another planet.
He believes a major conflict is brewing between Christians
and alien hordes. ``When Christ returns, the battle will
begin.''
Throughout the week's festivities, people who claim to have
been abducted by aliens said the beings that took them appeared
to be benevolent and not necessarily far from God.
``They told me that they're here to save us,'' Leah Haley,
who claims to have been abducted on many occasions, said. ``They
don't want us to destroy our planet and each other.''
Opinion polls in recent years have shown a sharp increase in
the number of Americans who believe in intelligent alien life.
John Mack, a Harvard psychiatry professor and UFO
researcher, said a mass visitation of aliens would drastically
change our religous, military and economic institutions and
force an overnight rewriting of conventional wisdoms.
``We'd no longer be the top being in the cosmos, we'd be
knocked off our perch ... Mankind's overwhelming arrogance would
definitely take a tumble,'' he said.
But author Whitley Strieber, who has written extensively
about his abduction by non-human entities, said it has only
increased his Christian faith.
``After that experience, I found my soul was hungry to live
the Christian experience,'' Strieber said.
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