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One more thing, have a lot of Sci-i stories been running during the 50's and 60's?
As films as well?
Many of the stories you attribute to "today" have run in holiwood and in literature for a generation.
Jules Verne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published in the 1800's and their novels and stories were made into SILENT FILM MOVIES in the teens and twenties.
IMHO, Joseph Smith was the FIRST sci-fi cultist to start a religion (if I am wrong, then I hope others on this forum will pre-date me to an earlier scie-fi cult).
There were many magazines ("Amazing Adventures" for example) that published sci-fi and deity-creating H.P. Lovecraft in the early part of the 20th century.
The 50's and 60's gave the American/Western culture MANY films on UFOs and aliens. "The Blob", "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers", "This Island Earth", "The Thing", "Plan 9 From Outerspace", etc. Many of these were founded in the Cold War fears. The 50's and 60's were rich in the films and stories of aliens.
I think this period of history was perhaps MORE prolific than any other for producing "sci-fi" films.
What of Mary Shelley(1800's) story? "Frankenstein" was a GREAT sci-fi film (by my definiation) of the 30's.
I think you should note something very important...whenever a FILM is released showing "aliens" as Hollywood shows them; UFO witnesses (i.e., "rubes" IMO) report almost identically the same characteristics of the creatures that the most recent "alien" film shows. Using Occum's Razor, I immediately discount any and all eye-witness accounts accordingly. It's a great "free thinking" tool that I highly recommend...
When the press reports them as only "Greys" with slanted eyes, the "witnesses" see them as colored grey with slanted eyes. Slanted how? Vertically or horizonally?
When the press in the early 50's and 60's reported them as "little green men" the "witnesses" started seeing them as small green men.
Intelligent life always seems to have two eyes in these reports Why? Is evolution of life and abilities stuck on Earth science only? Why are intelligent "aliens" only humanoid and why not looking like birds or whales or blobs or blocks?
Sorry, my friend, but I am too much a skeptic to waste any time at all on the validity of the the Raelians. I hope you do the same. While I may be forgiven for not seeing the "truth" as it arrives in 2025 with the "alien arrival", imagine the humiliation of being a believer who sees 2025 come and go with nothing happening?
I know what any "good" religion would do when this date occurs...they will say that the date is wrong and the new and improved date it is 2125...don't forget to tithe...