JEHOVAH AND HIS ANGELS VS. THE ALIENS -

OK, I have to admit I am just a bit peeved. Watched "Invasion" last night, you probably know the series, funny alien lights drop in the water then start to inhabit people (or change their DNA). All of this happens after a hurricane. Well they got "personal" last night. The naive deputy, Lewis, is "praying" about stuff, and telling the sherrif he is responsible to "someone else", the sherrif says "who?" and the deput says "GOD!" Of course later the sherrif lures deputy dopey out to the lagoon where the tentacled/jellyfish/stingray/glowing alien gets him as he leans into the water to see what it is. As Lewis leans over, his cross around his neck dips into the water, this was a clear symbol that not even Christ could save poor Lewis from the aliens.

The next morning Lewis shows up naked, under a towel at the sherrif's house and says "It's a MIRACLE sir!" and spreads his arms out in one of those "hallelujah! I just got saved" poses. So what's the beef Marty?

Well first of all I resent them going out of their way to single out Christianity as being impotent and a bit dopey. I mean why wasn't a Star of David hung over the water, or maybe a Buddhist symbol? Atheists have NO symbol so that's out of the question, and of course Christians have no organized protest groups like the rest of these folks have, I mean where is our "Council on Christian Relations" when you need them?

There's a more sinister thing going on here, its a bit of posturing. Whitley Streiber alludes to it when he calls "Jehovah and his angels the nazis of the skies". If my contention that the whole phenomena of UFO's and aliens is in fact a "spiritual" thing, then the show takes on some other dimensions. It may be nothing else than the network/media bias to portray Christians (in particular) as being corrupt and evil OR dopey and naive and impotent when faced with "other powers". Fact is Streiber is closer to the truth, he's just got the players reversed. The aliens, far from being those kind greys in Close Encounters, are much more the "nazis", kidnapping hapless humans and performing medical/sexual experiments on them.

There is the story of the Gadarene demoniac that puts it all in the right perspective. It's in Luke 8:

22 ¶ Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth.23 But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.
24 And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.
25 And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.
26 And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.
27 And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.
28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
29 (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
30 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
31 And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
33 Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.

Some things to note here;

1. Jesus didn't need to know the name of the demon before he had power over it. The demon was shaking in fear of being sent to the abyss the minute he SAW Christ. So we have to understand who the real power is in any human/demon/alien encounter, answer is NONE of the three, but Christ is the power.
2. There was a lot of natural disasters blowing up BEFORE the encounter. It was as if the demons knew "he" was coming so they sent a storm. But Christ had power over the winds. When the "special effects of life" start to make big waves, its time to call Christ in.
3. The demon KNEW Christ. That is he knew who he really was. This is similar to the situation in the passage in Acts where the Seven Sons of Sceva attempt to cast out a demon in the name of "Christ who Paul names". The demon said "Christ I know and Paul I know but who are you?" and beat them up and threw them out in the street naked. Using the cross like an amulet when you really aren't a Christian at all will have the same effect. But of course Christ WAS Christ and he therefore had power of these things.

The putting down of religion is really nothing more than using "shock value" to up the interest in the show. I find it interesting that the show is being moved now and "Alias" is taking its place. What happened? Is it tanking? Threshold (the other alien series) and Suface (the other, other alien series) have seemed to not lived up to expectations (I remember the last episode I saw of Threshold, they TOO went after Christians as being dopey and easily deceived).