Yesterday I watched a bit of educational television about ancient aliens, the Vatican, and the end of days. Ancient history is such a wonderfully fascinating subject! Even as a child in church I would always ask Sunday school teachers if we could learn about Revelations and the apocalyptic prophecies from the past. While I would certainly not classify myself as a Christian now, I find it harder and harder to ignore the things around me that are pointed out from ancient history. Personally, I consider most of the New Testament to be quite a lot of rubbish. The Old Testament on the other hand if looked at as a story is wonderful! A friend of mine actually gifted me a Bible per her request and I accepted knowing that I would enjoy reading a large amount of it without studying it for religious purposes. Currently I’m working on Revelations as I find that the most fascinating book of the entire bible : ).
Something interesting to add that helps to segue me in to my next topic is to analyze the way that the media was presented last night. I LOVE examining media and would consider it something that now comes naturally to me after the years of training from UNT. I would have to speculate that the order in which the shows were broadcast was deliberate and purposeful. A 3-4 hour special on the Vatican played continuously (the last hour of the program being about Revelations) except with 30 minute exceptions in between each time it re-played. This 30 minutes was filled with the “Ancient Aliens” show. How clever it seems to play a show about the mysteries of Catholicism and the Pope, then scare you at the end with frightening and disturbing depictions of the great prophesied apocalypse. Afterward, that ancient alien show broadcasts. This describes events in ancient history being explained by extra terrestrial interference, mainly events depicted in the Bible. Now they have you learning about Catholicism and Christianity, scared about the end of the world, and believing that unexplainable events from ancient history actually happened almost exactly as described in the text thanks to divine extra terrestrial intervention. Coincidence? Conspiracy? I find it difficult not to question the possibility of propaganda in a country that so desperately clings to Christianity within its government.
Aside from my opinion that America is attempting to indoctrinate the world with Christianity, there were actually some extremely convincing aspects to both documentaries that were very though provoking. While the alien program did focus a lot on biblical occurrences, they also touched on other topics outside of Christianity such as Stonehenge and other religious texts. Considering the extremely vast size of the universe around our tiny planet and the unexplainable events that have occurred throughout time, the idea of aliens having played some role in all of it seems more and more credible. Just an idea I will open my mind to more and more although nothing but time will reveal the truth : )
