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I love how they think exorcism is completely rational as a practice, but that it all falls apart at the suggestion that UFO sightings are the work of demons.
Yeah, how outrageous indeed! Now, will anyone exorcise this demon for me? My thigh has been bothering me for days.
Yeah this is weird because Vance has been saying that aliens are demons and brining the bible into it. You'd think the church would want to tackle aliens from that angle, them being demons mankind has to fend off. I mean c'mon if you think people can get possessed then is it so much of a stretch that UAPs are real?
Hold up maybe he just knows something we don't. All I'm saying is I've never been possessed by a demon AND I've never seen a UFO, so technically this checks out. 
Granted I was brought up evangelical, not Catholic, but my pastor always would say things like aliens, bigfoot, other cryptids, and most mental disorders were caused by demons. Even some angel sightings were demons in disguise. He also believed the illuminati was controlling the world governments, Israel was perpetually weeks away from getting a red heifer that would allow them to consecrate the materials to rebuild the temple and kick off the end-times. He passed away before Trump 1, and frankly I'd be afraid to see him here for that.
red heifers aren't super rare. if they wanted to make it a priority they could have.
I think it had to meet ritual specifications about purity that always seemed to be just out of reach. They still may have been able to get a pure one, but the websites he looked at always indicated it was so close yet ever not here yet.
Demonic aliens sounds rather cool though
Signs(2002)
Event Horizon (1997)
You're making the classic 30k fallacy of assuming daemons are just another type of xenos (there's no aliens in event horizon)
Damnit
Now we know the gleebies are in charge of the Catholic church. This shit goes all the way to the top.
i mean
john keel, one of the first officially titled parapsychologists and weirdo cranks, known for the motha fuckin mothman shit, theorized that the angels/demons of olde were the same inter dimensional beings as aliens in the modern day. his hypothesis: bright lights, loud noise, (radiation) burns after sighting, lost time etc were all things that those biblical experiences shared with alien abductions. idk it was a fun book to go through stoned
Tracks, but I still don't like how this bleeds into the larger "oh aliens did EVERYTHING in history, because brown people couldn't" ancient aliens bs.
iirc he never really goes into things like pyramids being ancient landing strips for this or that, at least not in this book. he seems to mostly be trying to understand what the fuck people actually see when they see weird ass shit.
the link at the end is the full pdf, read it it's funny
aliens fucking around makes more sense than "god is real and he did literally any of the things in the bible, seriously, just go pick a single thing and tell me 'this makes more sense than aliens'"
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Someone read too much DanDaDan
Or "Angel Down, Sussex".
