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I was asking Atheists would they think about UFOs and Aliens. And I got this reply.

"Although it is true that atheism at its strictest is a position on theism, not broader paranomal or supernatural claims, the current bruhaha over the UFO phenomenon does affect us in terms of the separation of church and state, in a roundabout way.

Lue is the current front man for an informal pseudoscientic group that styles itself "the invisible college". This editorial goes into more detail. https://spacechannel.com/how-the-government-got-duped-by-ufo-enthusiasts/ TL:DR Lue is working for a group of kooky military/industrial/intelligence spooks, Chris Mellon, Robert Bigelow, and Hal Putoff who have been pushing fringe science at the Pentagon for decades. This goes all the way back to Project Stargate's claims of spying on Soviets with remote viewing (the subject of the book and film the Men Who Stare at Goats, Putoff was one of Uri Gellar's strongest proponents). Although Stargate and other paranormal programs were officially shut down in the 90's, Bigelow managed to convince Senator Harry Reid to fund a new version of the program in 2007 called AWSAP/AATIP. Congress realized Reid slipped the line item in and let AATIP run out of funds.

What's the big deal about a bunch of quacks in the military intelligence industrial complex chasing flying saucers? Well, they seem to have used the the UAP investigation narrative as a foot in the door to fund "investigations" into the other pseudoscientific views that they hold. This includes things like quantum consciousness, non-physical beings, poltergeists, cryptids, ESP, the whole paranormal kitchen sink.

Essentally, these guys used government funds to support and promote their personal paranormal projects and views about the nature of reality, which is getting awfully close to using taxpayer money to fund religion. Imagine if the Department of the Interior funded a study into how witches and demons affected crop yields. My worry is that by leading the charge in getting UAP investigated they are going to accrue a whole lot more credibility within the government and the population than they are qualified to hold. Most chilling are comments they have made in the past about the efficacy of the scientific method in uncovering reality. Elizondo in particular claims the UAP phenomenon isn't a scientific issue but an "intelligence issue". He and his backers have actually claimed that the paranormal is precognitive and resists efforts to record it or measure it scientifically, which begs the question of what they need to spend the money on if they can't study it. This precognitive intelligence they go on about sounds an awful lot like a deity and they are beginning to sound an awful lot like priests interpreting "its" will."

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Submitted September 28, 2021 at 01:11AM by Some_Personality8379 https://ift.tt/2WiFRwp