Valentine Pontifex

Don't usually hang out in this topic, but there is an opinion piece which some might find useful:

Raelian cult beliefs just as nutty as the Christian majority's

Jeremy Pallant

Not really BC&H material. I think GRD would be a better forum.

sharon45

Once someone puts together a series of beliefs to put into a religion they are forming, no matter how outlandish these seem to be to outsiders, they would still mostly be on par with about any other religion, including of course, christianity.

Religions contain beliefs, and beliefs can not be proven as fact, or else they would be fact then. Most of the world's most popular religions, past through present, have far too much within them to take as serious by a science/logic society. So instead, these religions mainly rely on faith alone. Since faith is considered to be able to 'move mountains', it surely must also be considered to support about any claim a religion/belief would want to suggest.

Cutter

Raelians, aren't they the nutters who claimed to have cloned a human, not once but twice? (One claim was sometime in the '60's I think).

What a bunch of loons. (We need a 'crazy' emoticon!)

sharon45

That's one of the biggest hurdles a religion has to in time overcome, anything that could require too much faith, being claimed close to its present time. As the other religions have shown, with enough passing of time, so is there a more softening of the resistance as well, to the plausibility of such claims being real.

Jackalope

Try these:

Plognark

I think if I remember right their first claim was in like, 78?