Non-Terrestrials, Religion, and the Wrong Assumptions.
People often approach spiritual or religious subjects with a showy or even snobbish attitude. On a simplistic level, these topics get treated as intellectually inferior. But on a real academic level, they sit at the foundation of so much of what we mean by spirituality, theology, society and the pillars of our very ''current'' civilization. Most people carry religious names. Even those who say they do not believe in a particular god still make certain utterances or find themselves in situations that make me wonder whether we are almost genetically wired for the religious impulse. Not necessarily the spiritual one, but the religious one: the habit of ascribing or subscribing to some external authority as primordial and superior to whatever we define ourselves as. That is not the main focus here, but it frames my position. When the discussion turns to non-terrestrials and spirituality or religion, this angle is one that people rarely approach—whether deliberately or not....