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I went to a screening of the movie "Day the Earth Stood Still", Sunday evening, not much of a 'block buster", but worth viewing for nothing other than witnessing the social secular religious collapse of society upon learning of Extraterrestrial Contact.
The government protagonists in the film even cover the social study survey report on said ramifications in the film. I do not dabble in such subjects, but it was fun to watch all the evangelicals rioting in the streets over the discloser that their precious faith systems being refuted.
'Klaatu' Reeves comes to save earth from destruction, not to save humans, but to save earth from the humans who are now causing the destruction of earth's ecosystem!
Renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu, who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is "a friend to the Earth." Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving--but it may be too late. The process has begun.Read more
The Peters ETI Religious Crisis Survey
Ted Peters, Principal Investigator
Professor of Systematic Theology
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary [Institute for Theology and Ethics]
and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA
Julie Froehlig, Research Assistant
Science Teacher, St. John's School, San Francisco CA
Ted Peters, Principal Investigator
Professor of Systematic Theology
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary [Institute for Theology and Ethics]
and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA
Julie Froehlig, Research Assistant
Science Teacher, St. John's School, San Francisco CA
Abstract: The Peters ETI Religious Crisis Survey was constructed to test the following hypothesis: upon
confirmation of contact between earth and an extraterrestrial civilization of intelligent beings, the long established religious traditions of earth would confront a crisis of belief and perhaps even collapse.
confirmation of contact between earth and an extraterrestrial civilization of intelligent beings, the long established religious traditions of earth would confront a crisis of belief and perhaps even collapse.
