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Christian Novelist Blames UFOs on Fallen Angels after "Ancient Aliens" Shook His Faith in Jesus

7/24/2014

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Well, this was bound to happen. Ancient Aliens pundit William Henry has seized upon the Times of India’s credulous report that cave paintings in north-central India are 10,000 years old and depict space aliens. There is much reason to be skeptical of the Times’ claims, as this French-language article shared with us by Irna makes quite plain. The cave paintings in question are not newly discovered and are in fact listed in a tourist brochure for the region, and have been investigated since 1910. Local authorities believe some of the paintings are relatively recent (compared to 10,000 years old), and depict scenes from the life of Rama.

Henry notes that one of the cave images colors a group of humanlike shapes yellow and therefore he compares these shamanic images to the “golden robes” of the Anunnaki and the “robes of light” of Jesus Christ. He asks whether these beings are proof of alien encounters in the distant past. I am not aware of any Mesopotamian text that identifies the Anunnaki as wearing golden robes, though in the “Descent of Ishtar” the Anunnaki sit on golden thrones. Nor is there any indication that the yellow Indian figures (whose heads are yellow, too) are wearing robes.
This brings me to a closely related problem. Henry, as we just saw, compared ancient astronauts to Jesus, and it stands to reason that this idea must have occurred to others as well. Erich von Däniken famously exempted Jesus from his ancient astronaut theory, but others are less accommodating of religious sensibilities.

Jeff Bennington is a science fiction writer and self-described Christian who just self-published Alien: Examining Jesus Christ in a UFO Universe. Of the content of his book, I really don’t care. It’s not an actual investigation into ancient aliens but rather a work of apologetics and scriptural exegesis. It contains little beyond Bible quotes and references to fringe literature and Christian apologetics. Perhaps the most interesting claim is Bennington’s firm belief that demons can’t be driving flying saucers or anally probing abductees because “God simply does not afford wicked spirits those types of powers and there is no evidence that demons have the ability to create or convey the image of a craft…” Instead, it has something to do with fallen angels. Of course it does! Damn those Watchers! In short: He thinks UFOs are actually angels whizzing about in the sky (both good and evil), and that alien abductions are tortures conducted by the fallen angels, which can be avoided with sufficient faith in Jesus.

But what really interests me is Bennington’s reasons for writing the book. They tell us everything we need to know about the pernicious way fringe claims infiltrate our culture.

Bennington tells us that he was shocked to discover that Ancient Aliens remains on the air after six seasons and that despite America being dominated by “a Judeo-Christian faith,” millions of Americans have fallen into the “ever-growing cult culture” of ancient astronauts. Bennington realized that the ancient astronaut theory had begun to make viewers question whether there is a God and whether humans were truly created by the divine rather than lizard people from Mars. “Are we loved by a divine entity, or are we nothing more than a cosmic DNA experiment?” he asks.

Before this book, Bennington was best known as a self-published novelist. He published a series of eBook supernatural thrillers, and in the course of writing them he began to research extraterrestrials as a plot point. He started with Wikipedia and cable television documentaries like Ancient Aliens and moved on to fringe books, particularly conspiracy-oriented tomes. He says that these sources inspired him to devote “hundreds of hours” to UFO conspiracies and alien abductions, and the more he watched and read in fringe sources the more he became convince that “something is really going on.” His research eventually led him to the Anunnaki, and he found himself reading a book on Mesopotamian religion. Here I groaned aloud as Bennington admitted his own anti-intellectual attitudes: “that’s when I finally hit rock bottom. I mean, who wants to study Mesopotamian history?” I know, it’s not like it’s relevant to the Bible or anything.

Bennington said that he was not able to continue writing fiction until he had “resolved the UFO issue” and discovered what flying saucers really are. “The problem was that I needed to understand how and if Jesus Christ fits into our UFO universe—not for my [thriller] series—but for me on a personal, on a spiritual level.”

Nevertheless, Bennington confesses that Ancient Aliens and fringe history books “convinced” him that ancient astronaut theorists “had the answers,” especially when he found that what he heard on Ancient Aliens seemed to be confirmed by the ancient astronaut theorists’ own books and the myths and legends that they referenced on TV. This, in turn, led him to watch more episodes of Ancient Aliens until he was hanging on their every word, even though he noticed that some of the ideas seemed to contradict others. “My near-baptism in the ancient alien religion was shocking to my faith to say the least. I was pulled into the cult—hook, line and sinker.” He immediately started work on a book to do what even Erich von Däniken would not do—to “prove” that Jesus Christ was a space alien. But as he wrote, he had another revelation—one that allowed him to save his Christian faith while still accepting the ancient astronaut theory’s evidence, though not its conclusions. If the “aliens” were really angels, he could square the circle, reconcile the opposites, and have his cake and eat it, too.

To all of my critics who say that Ancient Aliens is just entertainment and that no one takes it seriously, you now have a 218-page rebuttal. The author was seduced by madness, unable to tell the difference between facts and opinions, truth and lies. And all because the TV fed him lies that his “research” in fringe books seemed to confirm. It becomes a closed ecosystem of mutually-reinforcing ideas, seductive and convincing even though Bennington recognized that the ideas contradicted each other! It simply didn’t matter. Accepting one fringe idea (ancient astronauts) made all of them (alien abductions, secret underground military UFO hangars, conspiracy theories, etc.) plausible.

Bennington’s book is valuable, but not for the reason he thinks. It is eloquent testimony to the impact of belief, the seductive power of perceived authority, and the effort that goes into interpreting and reinterpreting evidence to fit the most emotionally satisfying ideology.

33 Comments
spookyparadigm
7/24/2014 05:52:38 am

1.) As someone who doesn't really care much about theology, may I just add here that for a lot of people, I would imagine fallen angel is interchangeable with demon.

2.) That seems to be the only significant difference between this guy and what some evangelicals have been saying for decades. If anything, this sounds like it is so ensconced within American Christian subculture, it is only controversial in that narrow frame.

2a.) Jason have you read Final Events by Redfern? It's ... interesting. Especially if you've ever played Delta Green (which as we know has been plagiarized by at least one other alien enthusiast).

3.) Something else (an episode of the Paranormal Podcast, with an interview with a demonologist) got me thinking about how people in pseudo/alt world throw around the word "research." I honestly think most of them think that the Scoobies (either original or Buffy version) sitting in a library around a big book with the title "Vampyres" for an hour or so is research. That, and a google search.

I have some thoughts about why this might particularly occur in some cultural contexts, but I'd need to do some more actual research before saying such.

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Dave Lewis
7/24/2014 08:46:43 am

You are right about the fringe use of the word research. Just about everybody that appears on Coast to Coast AM claims to be a researcher.

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Dave Lewis
7/24/2014 08:59:28 am

From Jason's description of the book, it sounds like Jeff Bennington is sincere about what he's written. I think some christians who take the bible literally experience cognitive dissonance as it appears Bennington has done and try to come up with an explanation. I suspect that most of the fringe writers/personalities are in it for the money. Jason has let us know that books don't make much money for the authors. I assume that they are paid for appearances at the fringe conferences. These folks do lots of guest appearances on radio shows/podcasts which are likely gratis, but help sell their persona/products.

I would like to hear about how these folks make $$$ if anybody has any information.

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spookyparadigm
7/24/2014 10:28:26 am

For the top grade voices, who aren't usually full-on wooists but are mostly "just" conspiracy theorists who dabble in the mystical, Jason wrote about them recently. Folks like Beck and Jones, they make real bank by scaring their audiences and then selling them prepper crap (seeds, gold, gun accessories) and some alt med stuff (herbal teas, silver extracts, and so on). I don't listen to C2C, I get my dose of it from the ads on The Paracast, which are kept in the podcast format.

But yeah, I suspect you're right about the next level down, who make most of their money on the lecture and conference circuit. Some them, like Stanton Friedman or Robert Hastings in ufology, can work the college entertainment lecture circuit as their material is only pseudoscientific and not strongly religious, or racist, like a lot of the alt arch people (that, and UFOs are considered "fun" whereas the anthropology department would probably protest if say Viera or Hanks were brought in to talk about giants). Those gigs pay well.

But it seems that for pseudoarch, they're following the model of New Age events, setting up their own events in-community, charging extra for "workshops" and the like. The Paradigm Symposium comes to mind. This then builds into online courses and other revenue sources.

I presume everyone saw the news today that Giorgio is getting a new show?

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Dave Lewis
7/24/2014 10:52:30 am

I've been listening to the Paracast for some time now. I like it a lot more since David Biedny left. The history of the whole UFO culture which I've learned from this program is quite interesting.

spookyparadigm
7/24/2014 11:13:43 am

I liked Biedny most of the time. He was willing to call out most BS, on air if need be. But the show is more relaxed without him, and to be honest, it has always dealt in woo, even if when Biedny was on, it also put some of the most obviously dishonest woo in its place.

I liked O'Brien's original Mysterious Valley book, even if I didn't think most of what was being reported in it had value beyond folklore or anthropology. He was explicit about methods, and he did some interesting things. Having listened to him on the show and read him in the forums, I think he's interesting as a good example of how "windows" form around amateur folklore collectors (just like Keel and his time in Point Pleasant) but that's about it. When one of his friends is on the show, it is often going to be an incredibly painful listen due to snapped suspension of disbelief, nevermind O'Brien's defensiveness about his friends.

But I have to give him credit: his Keelian idea of a pattern of ultraterrestrial cattle mutilations being followed by somewhat different human-caused mutiliations as a response or reaction, is brilliant as fiction. Fit it in with Redfern's Final Events, which is also brilliant as fiction but maddening as non-fiction due to lack of any evidence and suspiciously implausible aspects (connecting UFOs with Aleister Crowley and magick makes sense post-Vallee, post-Keel, and post-1973, but straight-laced government agents making that connection in 1952 does not make sense in the cultural context), and you have a crackerjack idea. It is sort of what Charles Stross has done with his Lovecraftian The Laundry, but a less cheeky and more Alex Jonesish version could play well either straight or as comedy.

I still think the most useful of the paranormal podcasts, to someone trying to keep up with things, is Binnall of America, as Tim lets the guest talk a long time and doesn't really seem to care about pleasing any particular audience. His continued use of Jim Marrs every season in light of recent events is something I'm not happy about, and he's had some terrible guests on, including the "building of a mystery" about the Columbine conspiracy theorist as a much more mean-spirited version of Mel's Hole. But some of his shows are great entertainment and are quite interesting (and occasionally quite educational: the ouija board episode was very good).

Jason Colavito link
7/24/2014 12:09:53 pm

I have no idea how I will survive 3 hours of "Ancient Aliens: Special Edition," "Ancient Aliens," and Giorgio's new show (first episode: Aliens in Atlantis!) tomorrow night. That taxes even my tolerance for bullshit.

EP
7/24/2014 12:21:29 pm

I have faith in your tolerance for bullshit, Jason! After all, you put up with all of us :)

Dave Lewis
7/25/2014 11:01:30 am

I hadn't heard of Charles Stross before but it sounds like his Laundry Files would be enjoyable so I DLed them last night.I would like to hear about other Lovecraft like books.

Have you heard of the Cthulhu Podcast? FNH occasionally his new tales in the same vein as HPL>

bkd
7/25/2014 01:28:12 am

I think Bennington's feeling the same drive as Creationists, but plugging "ufology" into the narrative instead of deliberately misinterpreted real science.

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JaredMithrandir link
7/24/2014 09:25:06 am

They haven't shook my faith at all. But I haven't written on the same theory.

http://z13.invisionfree.com/BlogMithrandirOlorin/index.php?showtopic=49

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7/24/2014 10:39:54 am

"To all of my critics who say that Ancient Aliens is just entertainment and that no one takes it seriously, you now have a 218-page rebuttal."

There will be always a small minority of idiots. I say Twilight haters cited all kinds of Isolated examples to justify their claiming that Twilight is ruining America as well.

You can't have it both ways, in terms your spreading Paranoia about how Ancient Aliens effects society, but then refuting and mocking Conservatives who think Horror Fiction is having an adverse effect on Society. Either both do or neither, otherwise your by definition a Hypocrite.

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Dave Lewis
7/24/2014 11:02:25 am

It appears to me that the two subjects you mentioned are not related in an either/or sense. Usually when someone attacks Jason like that it's because he has disagreed with the person's beliefs.

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Walt
7/24/2014 11:44:18 am

Spoken like someone who enjoys horror fiction but not AA.

I don't particlarly care for either and I think he made a valid point. However, I reject his solution of not mocking the conservative for complaining about horror fiction, and instead I mock both her and Jason equally for their views.

Somebody somewhere will believe everything, whether it's the guy Jason blogged about today or the little girl he blogged about a little while ago who killed her little friend over a monster (or something). That doesn't change the fact that AA and whatever monster that girl was trying to impress are both just entertainment.

JaredMithrandir link
7/24/2014 01:47:43 pm

No, I also believe that both kinds of Paranoids should be Mocked. it was in mocking Jason I made my comment.

Jason Colavito link
7/24/2014 12:08:24 pm

I'm not sure I understand the alleged hypocrisy. Fiction and nonfiction are two different things, or, ideally, should be. The idea that fictional depictions of violence lead to actual instances of violence is not at all similar to the idea that an authority figure asserting that a fact is true causes audiences to accept that the fact is true. That said, there is a strong case to be made that content creators of all kinds must take responsibility for their creations. To that end, for example, Rod Serling expressed extreme regret that his plane hijacking melodrama led to real life instances of plane hijackings, and he vowed never to again give criminals a new idea. I've never shied away from the fact that the media influence what people believe: The Outer Limits, I demonstrated years ago, directly influenced the Betty and Barney Hill abduction. The question becomes what type of responsibility do creators of content have, and when should government or other organizations exercise censorship. The mockery of those who oppose horror is aimed at the fact that they single out horror when other genres, like romance and science fiction, have equally pernicious effects.

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7/24/2014 01:45:31 pm

But even when ti's Fiction you complain about pandering to Ancient Alien ideas, like the show Pharaoh HBO is gonna do.

Your spreading Paranoia, just like the Conspurcay Theorists you condemn spread Paranoia. It doesn't matter. And no, no one needed Rod Sterling to come up with the idea of Hijacking a plane.

It's the same to me as people who are paranoid that playing Dungeons and Dragons will cause kids to loose their grip on reality.

I'm not afraid of any Boogeymen, not of "Gun Nuts", not of "Islamo-Fascists", and not Vampire Fanboys.

The Government should NEVER excerize Censorship, EVER, not with any excuse what so ever. The First Amendment is absolute.

Those kinds of people do target other genres. The standard view of the most Right Wing Christians is all Secular media is Bad, Period. My not sharing this view is one my unavoidable conflicts with fellow Fundamentalists. I can't actually Join the Independent Baptist Church I've gone to, since they want me to agree never to go to the movie Theater.

Jason Colavito link
7/24/2014 02:05:24 pm

You're referring specifically to HBO's ancient alien drama series. I criticized it not because it uses ancient aliens as an idea (as The Outer Limits and H. P. Lovecraft did before them) but because the producer is explicitly an evangelist for ancient astronauts and wants to use the program as propaganda. The problem is the subject matter but the purpose behind it.

JaredMithrandir link
7/24/2014 03:38:41 pm

Did saying during which Pharaohs' reign, or Dynasty the show will be set?

.
7/24/2014 05:26:43 pm

time scanners link --- GOTO PBS..... pleeeeeeeeeze!!!

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365280998/ PYRAMIDS

"The team travels to Egypt to scan the pyramids—the tombs of the mighty pharaohs—to find out how the necropolis evolved from simple mud-brick structures to the most impressive buildings in the ancient world. They use their cutting-edge laser technology to scan Djoser’s Step Pyramid at Saqqara, Meidum’s collapsed pyramid, the mysterious Bent Pyramid at Dashur and the famous Great Pyramid at Giza."

AM BEING NICE. THE SHOW IS MIDDLEBROW + HIGHBROW.

Walt
7/25/2014 02:12:37 am

It's a little scary to me that you don't classify Ancient Aliens as fiction. I'll have to think about that for a while, but I guess it probably explains our differences in opinion.

An Over-Educated Grunt
7/25/2014 05:37:04 am

Two things, Walt.

1. It doesn't matter whether Jason believes that AA is fiction; it is being PRESENTED as fact, and his point here is that there are people buying into it as fact, which shows that no, it is not completely without real-world effects. Claiming "it's clearly fiction!" didn't work for Orson Welles, and is a red herring on your part.

2. For all that you talk about how Jason makes enemies, I've noticed an increasing and needlessly jerk-ish tone in your posts. You can't say "Jason made me post that way!" You're a grown-up, you choose your tone (and yes, that means I honestly believe that certain people here occasionally need a good flogging). If you think Jason's tone turns people away even when he's right, why do you insist on doing the exact same thing?

Walt
7/25/2014 08:01:59 am

I've watched the show and I wasn't aware it was being presented as fact. Nothing I've ever seen indicates that. They don't even tell a coherent story, and contradict themselves as they throw stuff at the wall to see what sticks. The show's introduction says "what if it were true" which has always meant to me that it clearly isn't. That's the very first line of every show.

Are any TV shows just entertainment? American Pickers? Pawn Stars? Car rebuild shows like Fast n' Loud? Gordon Ramsay's shows? Deadliest Catch? Obviously sporting events and scripted dramas are, but which other shows are and are not just for entertainment?

I just can't understand how anybody sees commercial TV shows as anything other than entertainment, and I don't understand where the dividing line lies. I suppose that's reflected in my tone. At this point, I take the opinions here about as seriously as those here take AA and AU.

Mark L
7/24/2014 09:48:45 pm

It seems there's a large and lucrative industry around showing that AA is not entertainment. All the conventions, personal appearances, and so on, all the books; these are not just entertainment spin-offs.

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7/24/2014 04:39:33 pm

i did 11 postings over 2 threads on either Plato, Atlantis
and/or Edgar Cayce as i went misty eyed over vintage pulp
magazine science fiction. Weebly to me is a rather difficult
interface for i most often make mistakes & errors or am
cut short in my opines.

summer months ought not to be spent totally pounding
away on a keyboard. i was gone for several days, only to
return and as i jogged my memory cells i thought Jason
had reposted some of his older blogs, only to realize after scrolling back two weeks his last five blogs are all new
but the topics are very familiar. i now await the return of
Scott Wolter's brain~freeze heavy brain~childe in the
fall. i cannot complain, these new blogs are intelligently
written and have their moments of gravitas, i find myself re~watching the older NOVA episodes when they are re~broadcast. gotta luv PBS, becuz the HERC movie is
about to go 300 + Spartan on us even though i think the
very real Hercules lived before the grand Neolithic Revolution. Was there a recent thread and/or blog~post about the fall
of either Tory or the Minoan Civilization as in recently?

I
do assume 1111 B.C is almost a SILVER PHARAOH date
but 1200 B.C feels Minoan as in the Delphic fall of a great
Empire. Angels and Genesis but not a quip about John
Milton and a PAIR of DICE lost on a cosmic level? Fundie
topics are almost a filler for the dog days of summer save
for the fact that the Scopes Trial inherited a Biblical Wind
almost ninety years ago. Flooded evolutionary orchards
or Charles Darwin's lumpers + splitters? PBS is between
its legendary requests for our hard earned dollars.

I am very
happy... BEAR GRYLLS on NBC is about to take "celebs" out
into the woods we may never even visit. I am also in shock...its
sinking in that Discovery has fired Cody Lundin.

The proper
Victorians assumed we had angel DNA in us, but i think that
our ancestors from 20 million to 5 million years ago were much
like today's Orangutans but had much shorter arms and were
more aquatic. Was watching PBS yesterday and learned that
aging "Orang" females do go into menopause. our experts did
not think so becuz the actuaries tables concerning the longevity
Orangs in the wild have them dying way early... life being what
it is, let alone why we are often civilized.... and our longevity.

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.
7/24/2014 04:46:31 pm

David Letterman thinks the HERC movie and the new
Planet of the Apes movie have basically the same plot.
I don't often agree with him or quote him, but he has a
point. were i into a more intense Milton Berle or mayhap
even a Jack Benny mind~frame, i'd recycle the joke he
just did. but i am feeling very lazy. Anyway... Bear Grylls is
back. Relax, the "new" news is not going to become 8 posts...

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.
7/24/2014 04:57:56 pm

woo-woo tyme. some 15 billion years ago Ancient Alien
Astronauts spliced THEIR own DNA into our ancestors,
they became hairless, began to walk like bipedals and
indulged in "face to face" coitus, rather than having a chinp
in rut or heat approach. all along, our females after 50 or
55 or 69 years are menopausal. we were or became very
aquatic but did like building our very "Orang" tree nests. did
our hair go from "Orang" orange to silver fox silver? we were
capable of language, culture and symbiology, but we were
often very quiet, becuz baboons are very loud. our mistake
as a species was made when we swung down from the tree~nests we made in the swamps of North Africa... we then
tried to wander about and keep up with the climate cycles.
we were very much like the hominin Australopithecus Sediba
that we can encounter in the fossil record much later on,,,

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.
7/24/2014 05:06:09 pm

"I have no idea how I will survive 3 hours of "Ancient Aliens: Special Edition," "Ancient Aliens," and Giorgio's new show (first episode: Aliens in Atlantis!) tomorrow night. That taxes even my tolerance for bullshit."

WISE ADVICE --- PBS is re-airing the very neat and clever
series about Australia's first four billion years. There is a
nice Aussie bloke who knows his onions. GOTO the NOVA
webpage video area and set of links to the older episodes.
Cleanse thy critic's palate by looking at the four 50 minute episodes. that can be the way you can recharge. i like the
photography, i'd emigrate save for the fact that Australia
when breathe taking is often dang hot. relax and enjoy the
show. The CGI was almost cutting edge when it aired...

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.
7/24/2014 05:16:04 pm

thebrave Medal of Honor dude is on Letterman...

for once Dave is ceasing to act like a hippie jerk.

i like his interview style even though i am now

counting the dayz until Monsieur Colbert arrives.

i feel older, Leno retired, Carson passed away

a while ago, and 4 years Dick Cavett was deeply

depressed. I may look at INHERIT THE WIND on

on NetFlix if things go Scopes Trial + 'fundie" again.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/dick-cavetts-worst-show

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Willaim Henry
7/25/2014 03:39:32 am

Hi Jason,

Regarding golden robes of the Anunnaki, you will be interested to read "The Golden Garment of the Gods" by Leo Oppenheim in the "Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol 8, No 3 (July 1949), pp. 172-193.

Enjoy!

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Jason Colavito link
7/25/2014 03:45:12 am

I know the piece well; I cite it in my "Jason and the Argonauts." It doesn't talk about the Anunnaki and it actually discusses gold robes on cult statues, not the clothes of transcendental beings.

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BillUSA
7/25/2014 05:30:53 pm

I suppose I should thank William Henry for being the subject of this blog entry because I can think of one word to describe him and thus allow me to keep this comment short. The word?

Idiot.

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