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Review of Ancient Aliens S06E05 "The Satan Conspiracy," in Which TV Tells Us to Worship Satan

10/29/2013

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So that happened. I think my TV just told me to fall down and worship Satan. So, um, hail Satan?

Just two weeks after Ancient Aliens devoted an hour to telling us that the rebel angels who fell from heaven during Satan’s insurrection were evil aliens who corrupted the human genome and nefariously plot to control the world, this episode tells us that their traditional leader, Satan, is a pretty cool dude who just wants us to be happy and really cares about us. That’s right, Ancient Aliens has done a full Aleister Crowley and is embracing Satan as humanity’s true hero!

Seriously: Ancient astronaut theorists are now Satanists. Apparently they read Matthew 4:8-9 in which the devil shows Jesus all the kingdoms of the world and says “All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me” and thought “Good deal!”

Now, I don’t really care one way or the other since the character of Satan is an artificial construct composed from a range of ancient parts, but for a show—and a “theory”—that has been extremely careful to exempt Jesus from alien parentage, it seems odd to suddenly alienate a chunk of the audience by embracing Satan. Oh, well, William Henry wants you to know that Lucifer is love.

Ancient Aliens S06E05 “The Satan Conspiracy” opens with a brief discussion of the character of Satan and traditional Christian views of demonic possession and exorcism, with some footage of the expelling of invisible demons at what appears to be a deliverance ministry conducted by Bob Larson. Then the assembled pundits tell us that Satan was originally the angel Lucifer, the most beautiful of God’s creations, that he rebelled in his pride, and that he was expelled from heaven. This story is an old one, but almost certainly one that was assembled from various spare parts.

One of those parts was the Hebrew figure of Satan, the adversary, who in the Hebrew Bible is God’s agent, satan, and is sometimes a supernatural figure (as in Job and Numbers 22) and other times a general term for any human God uses to block the actions of another (as in 1 Kings 5:4). In Job and Numbers, this figure is an angel. In Zecharia 3:1-2, the Satan (“the Accuser”) stands at the right hand of the presiding angel in the presence of God and the heavenly host.

Another part was the serpent in the Garden of Eden, who tempts Eve into sin. The Hebrew Bible does not identify the serpent as Satan; that occurs only much later, taking shape in last few centuries BCE and taking canonical form in Revelation (20:2), in the New Testament, whose authors were all familiar with the newish fallen angels story.

A third part was the material in Isaiah (14:12-15) about the Morning Star falling from heaven, referring poetically in context to a Babylonian king, but applied as early as the New Testament authors to the emerging idea of Satan. Isaiah’s imagery is in turn likely derived from a Canaanite myth of a lesser god or hero who attempts to overthrow El, the supreme god, and is hurled back to earth, something on the order of the Greek Bellerophon attempting to conquer Olympus.

After this, some pagan elements fold in, notably Greek conceptions of Hades and Pan.

This composite figure, the devil, emerges largely thanks to Jewish apocalyptic literature. Satan does not appear in the apocalypse of Daniel nor is he a main character in the fall of the Watchers in the Book of Enoch (canonical only in Ethiopia), yet because Satan was among the heavenly host—one of the benay Elohim, the sons of God—he could therefore be interpolated into the apocalyptic narratives once the sons of God from Genesis 6:4 were firmly declared fallen angels around the time of the composition of the Book of Enoch. From Enoch’s chief naughty angels Samyaza and Azazel, our Satan gains his rebellious character and his punishment to be bound beneath the earth until the Last Judgment. The last chapters of Enoch, probably composed long after the first section on the Watchers, significantly replace Azazel with Satan, reflecting the transition and fixing it in time, around 100 BCE.

I could go on to chronicle the further development of Satan and the fallen angels in Jubilees and among the New Testament writers (2 Peter 2:4, Jude 1:6, etc.), but, really, what’s the point? Ancient Aliens wants us to believe that ancient texts are firsthand reports of events; so, does that mean that Satan flew down in his spaceship in 100 BCE, or that somehow no one thought to mention it for a few thousand years? And if you, as an ancient astronaut theorist, refuse to recognize the literary development of the Satan figure, how can you make a logical case of any kind for knowing the true character of Satan? Instead, they go down the garden path trod by Kirk Cameron where he attempted to divine the mind of God from the “perfect” shape of the banana, unaware of human cultivation of the plant.

I find it interesting that two weeks ago, in covering the Anunnaki, we were instructed that ancient texts had to be taken absolutely literally, particularly the Book of Enoch, yet here we are told we must take the Biblical texts symbolically and interpret the serpent as Satan and Satan as the victim of anti-satanic propaganda.

Some biblical explication occurs next, speculating on the character of Eve and whether she wanted to “mature” from God-imposed infantilism. William Henry tells us that Satan is our benefactor, a Promethean figure giving us much-needed wisdom. Frankly, though, with all the discussion of God and God’s judgment, and all the commentary from priests and ministers and professors of Judaic studies, this segment—and indeed the whole show—would not be out of place on a religious channel. This only reinforces my refrain that ancient astronaut ideas are meant to substitute for or supplement traditional religion in the context of modern science.

We next discuss Satan in the Book of Job, and William Henry mistakenly identifies the “divine bureaucracy” of God’s heavenly court as “advanced humans” rather than angels, which of course contradicts the literal reading of the Genesis creation narrative, the whole Hebrew Bible, and Enoch.

A quarter of the way through, no sign of the ancient astronaut big guns: no Giorgio Tsoukalos, no David Childress. They only start to show up in brief cameos, and they take a back seat to priests and ministers and religious thinkers mainstream and extreme.

We move on to recapping the same material from the Book of Enoch about the Watchers that we last went over two weeks ago, though the pundits seem to confuse the material in Enoch with that of Jubilees, for it is in the latter rather than the former that the Watchers originally came down for noble purposes before falling prey to feminine wiles; in the former, they were always horny for human women. The show asserts that Samyaza is Satan, and it attempts to claim the name Samyaza (“shem,” fame, and “azaz,” rebellion) is also given as Shaytan-i-el or something like that. (I couldn’t quite make out what they said.) Giorgio Tsoukalos, in his first appearance, suggests that there are many versions of the Book of Enoch, and I can’t tell whether he is referring to the various manuscript traditions of the book we know as 1 Enoch, or whether he is referring to 2 Enoch and the unrelated 3 Enoch, which are much less developed in discussion of the Watchers. Tsoukalos claims that Watchers are aliens because they came from the sky.

Now we visit Mt. Hermon, where Enoch placed the descent of the Watchers and their unbreakable oath to rebel against God. He did so not because Satan actually fell onto the mountain but because it was long the cult site of Baal, where his palace was thought to stand, and a holy place by which Canaanites swore unbreakable oaths. Thus was it appropriate to put demons atop Baal’s palace and have them swear a mockery of pagan holy oaths.

Scott Roberts asserts that the angels provided “forbidden” knowledge and that “cross-culturally” many groups claimed that such knowledge was forbidden by god(s) and that the deliverers were “all condemned for it.” Oddly, the cultures don’t seem to agree on what was forbidden. Enoch singles out metallurgy, astronomy, and cosmetics as particularly awful, but the Greeks were content with claiming only that Zeus tried to hide fire. That’s really more of a physical item than a body of knowledge, though. Native Americans told similar stories of Coyote or Raven and fire. I guess you could extend this to Gilgamesh losing the plant of immortality to the serpent, but that was less the gods’ fault than his own clumsiness. I’m not really sure how to extend this further, for the idea of condemning a god for passing on knowledge to people isn’t really a widespread motif. No one spanked Osiris, Glooscap, Viracocha, or Quetzalcoatl for their efforts. (Osiris was killed, but not for sharing knowledge.)

Philip Coppens asserts that civilization is the gift of Satan, and we hear from another “thinker,” Kathleen McGowan, that we should praise Satan for his forward-thinking approach. David Childress tells us (again) of the supposedly parallel story of the Anunnaki, whom he claims were “half-god, half-man and came down from the stars.” All of that is false. Not a shred of evidence exists for that, for he is confusing them with the fish-men of the late Oannes myth. He then claims that Anunnaki instructed humans in civilization, which is again Oannes. He then says that the Anunnaki were reptilians with narrow eyes—again not found in any cuneiform text—and he asserts that the “Bible” calls the “Watchers” serpents, which is utterly false since the Watchers don’t appear in the Bible at all, let alone as snake-people.

William Henry asserts that Satan was a Seraphim (which is not canonical but rather a later gloss) and that Seraphim means “giant serpent.” More literally it means “burning ones” and is usually used to mean actual serpents. Only once is it applied to angels (Isaiah 6:1-3), and there it’s likely reflecting the golden serpents of Near Eastern cult practice. It’s only with Enoch that we see these inflated into heavenly dragons.

Now, halfway through the show, we decide to adopt John Bathurst Deane’s Worship of the Serpent, which attempted in the early 1800s to claim that all mentions of serpents in pagan myth were all mistaken worship of Satan from a corruption of the Genesis narrative. Henry says Quetzalcoatl is Satan because he’s a serpent.

Prometheus is held up as a parallel story of a noble fellow unfairly punished for sharing divine wisdom. Viracocha is claimed to be Lucifer on account of being a bringer of light, and they charmingly claim he is seen in “Inca” sculpture all while highlighting the Staff God on the decidedly non-Inca Gate of the Sun at Tiwanaku. (The Staff God may or may not be an early form of Viracocha.) The Egyptian god Set is claimed to be Satan because he ruled over darkness, which takes at face value late Egyptian myths. The earlier Set, still remembered in rural Egypt as late as Greco-Roman times, was not evil.

In short, the show managed to discover the concept of the culture hero, a well-known anthropological and folklore type, who is sometimes human and sometimes divine but always bringing the arts of civilization. But they somehow want us to be in awe of this fact and see it all as connected to Satan, whom they apparently venerate as a hero. How did they miss Osiris? He was a culture hero who ruled over the underworld—just like Satan! Oh well, we’re supposed to think that the devil is the “good” character, according to Philip Coppens, David Childress, and Erich von Däniken, and therefore to venerate Satan as our savior—“the god of hard work [and] the opportunity to do things ourselves,” as Childress says. I knew Ayn Rand’s Objectivism seemed suspiciously satanic.

Erich von Däniken claims that Prometheus, stealing fire, is Lucifer because Lucifer is Latin for bringer of light. Never mind that Lucifer was only invented by that name when Jerome translated the Bible into Latin…

In order to explain why Satan is seen as evil rather than as our savior, the show introduces the concept of demonic possession, which it treats—thanks to Adam Blai, for-profit demonologist, and Bob Larson, exorcist—as actual possession by supernatural creatures. I do not understand how this relates to aliens in any way, unless these are the same aliens that mind-project scientific formulae into human brains. Somewhere, though, we’ve lost the thread of aliens in the show’s quest to titillate us with Satan and ask us to fall down and worship him. Larson tells us that he enters a metaphysical realm to battle demons, and the show suggests that somehow our brains invite demons from an extraterrestrial dimension, something I guess like H. P. Lovecraft’s brain-swapping Great Race. But even the show can’t really sustain this as more than a throwaway line at the end of a segment that’s all about supernatural evil.

We conclude with a discussion of Revelation and the rise of Satan at the end of time. The show asks us to reject the literal interpretation of Revelation (there’s a first!) and instead asks us to imagine that this is rather a description of an upcoming return of extraterrestrials in a “galactic war […] waged over the ultimate fate of mankind.” In this, Satan is our hero because he stole UFO secrets to help humanity fight back against the Anunnaki, the Elohim, and that arch-fiend Yahweh. But at least it restores humanity to the center of creation. McGowan finally acknowledges that Satan isn’t one coherent figure but many, but Henry tells us that “in reality” Satan truly cares about and loves you. “Satan’s not such a bad guy,” Childress states. Satan, the narrator says, might simply seem evil because he’s angry at us for not respecting his contributions. Remember: Satan is love.

I can’t believe that I just sat through an hour of primetime major cable network television asking me to worship Satan. Where the hell is Pat Robertson when you need him? Seriously, Harry Potter novels get burned because religious extremists think they lead kids to Satan and network TV is routinely blasted for being satanically liberal, and nobody cares that the History Channel is all but advocating Satan worship?

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Scott Hamilton
10/29/2013 05:47:17 am

It's a little strange that Von Daniken can be both a conservative Christian and argue that Satan was right. Maybe he sees both positions as rebelling against authority? More Catholic than the pope, but also open-minded enough to love the devil?

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Jason Colavito link
10/29/2013 06:37:56 am

Frankly, we have no way of knowing what context Ancient Aliens excised his comments from. I'm just going to guess that like most ancient astronaut speculators, he's fluid enough to provide an ad hoc embrace of whatever weird idea the producers throw at him. Satanism? Sure, why not? That said, you're probably right that he's sympathizing with rebellion against the hated Powerful People.

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Sarah
10/29/2015 03:17:51 am

This guy is a die hard Christian that is pissed off because some guy made some awesomely questionable points about what he learned when he himself was in bible school. Not one episode of ancient aliens tells u to worship Satan, haha

bluejayway
8/1/2018 05:48:40 am

I enjoy Ancient Aliens and while they contradict themselves, Childress always “has to wonder...” and sometimes they really get ridiculous. I cannot help thinking it is not correct to disregard what Childress says about “Annunaki” being false due to zero shredded evidence, or saying things are incorrect because they are not in the bible.
The bible is a collection of stories written down to keep people in line and were written from stories passed on orally for generations. There is not a shred of evidence for many things in the bible, and you cannot prove anything by quoting the bible verse.
The idea that beings from space populated this planet and each mythology has dicterent names and details for the similar outlines of tales is not so far fetched.
I just think the bible stories, written and arranged but men with agendas should not be considered proof.
Imagine, eins from now everything is destroyed and human rise up again, develop language and finds things left behind, “ancient objects” to them and then someone finds a copy The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. A book of children’s stories teaching right from wrong and that’s that civilizations bible. IMO

Ken Ammi link
8/1/2018 05:55:12 pm

Bluejayway: most interesting, friend. I am unsure who brought up the Annunaki or why you have to turn a consideration of AA into an attack upon the Bible. Considering that AA certain has a bias agenda, did you ever ponder whether AA is a collection of stories written down to keep people in line—or, get them to form a new line?

In any case, it is one thing to merely assert that collection of stories written down to keep people in line but where is your evidence (keeping in mind that all text that include laws are meant to guide us)?

Also, you assert that they were written from stories passed on orally for generations and leave that hanging without a conclusion. Yes, culture who to some extent literally relied on very well exercised memories and actual systems of ensuring the accuracy of oral traditions passed on tradition orally: what of it?

Then, why is it “not correct to disregard what Childress says about ‘Annunaki’ being false due to zero shredded evidence” but then it is a problem that “There is not a shred of evidence for many things in the bible” which, of course, is a generic assertion.

You then make a conclusion without a premise which is that “you cannot prove anything by quoting the bible verse” so, ironically, you think that you proved something by simply making an assertion (a verse of your own).

I agree that something to the likes of that “The idea that beings from space populated this planet and each mythology has dicterent [sic] names and details for the similar outlines of tales is not so far fetched.” After the Tower of Babel event, humanity spread through the Earth taking with them what was then commonly known shared history which in time changed in this or that details and came to be called myth and legend.

I just think what you and AA are telling us, written and arranged by people with agendas should not be considered proof.

Feel free to imagine what you will but the facts are what they are.

Upon what basis does your worldview even provide you the premise upon which to demand adherence to truth, logic and ethics?

Joss link
10/29/2015 03:15:40 am

Erik V. Wrote books and talked about many MANY things...in a neutral party. But just saying, the guy that wrote this is even more wacko lol

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Ken Ammi link
10/29/2015 06:45:13 pm

Sarah,
Just who is the "This guy" to whom you are referring: Von Daniken, Colavito or Hamilton?

Shane Sullivan
10/29/2013 07:37:21 am

"... but the Greeks were content with claiming only that Zeus tried to hide fire."

I'm sure AATs take for granted that, in the story of Prometheus, "fire" is symbolic of fire-pumps and -saws, and other general knowledge of how to *make* fire. Of course, this is just another case of them taking myths literally when it suits their purposes, and figuratively when it's convenient.

(And once again, as I type this message, the song Seven Seas of Rhye, by Queen, starts up on my playlist. Now if that song's not proof of ancient aliens, I don't know what is; I mean, he descends from the sky to punish the wicked!)

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Coridan Miller
10/29/2013 09:01:49 am

I usually throw H2 on to fall asleep so rarely see full episodes, but does AA purport to be giving a unified ancient astronaut theory, or do they acknowledge it as differing and sometimes conflicting theories?

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charlie
10/29/2013 09:48:51 am

That was the absolute oddest of the odd the programs have become. Even the wife who enjoys this series said after that she was confused by this one more than usual. How they can keep the series going is beyond me, they do have new ad spots for the "
new" season starting on H2 this Friday. After seeing the first of them, I wondered if the setting isn't in one of the main AAT's moms basement. It does have an "underground" feel to the new ads.

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Mandalore
10/29/2013 11:16:11 am

I am surprised that there was nothing in the show about the Yazidi, who are a religious sect in Northern Iraq that venerate Shaitan (the Islamic name for Satan). They essentially believe that when Shaitan was ordered to bow before God's new favorite creation, man, and refused, he was not expelled from Heaven (a la Satan/Lucifer) but became the new patron of mankind. It turns out the order to bow was just a test that all the other angels failed. This line of belief was heavily influenced by Zoroastrian tenants regarding Mithra as Ahura Mazda's chief lieutenant. In the Medieval period the Yazidi were often accused of being devil worshippers by Muslims and Crusading Christians, which they kind of were. It seems like Ancient Aliens' laziness in any actual research deprived them of a prime bit of evidence to argue for a conspiracy hiding Satan's awesomeness. Of course there's also the fact that the whole idea of this episode specifically and the series generally is stupid.

Hail Satan?

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Mandalore
10/29/2013 11:20:18 am

I forgot to add in that the Yazidi appear in the "The Horror at Red Hook" by HP Lovecraft as the devil worshipping Yezidi.

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Jason Colavito link
10/29/2013 11:30:26 am

At this point, I think it's a given that they don't actually bother researching anything. I agree that the Yazidi would have been a good addition to the show, but that might have required buying stock footage or (gasp!) conducting research in Iraq. Cheaper to just pretend it isn't there.

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Dan D
10/29/2013 12:24:57 pm

I fell asleep watching this episode but can't wait for the comic book conspiracy edition, coming soon.

Lex Luther, the Riddler and the Joker will be exposed once and for all...Aliens, but nice ones.

Lando
2/21/2014 07:20:32 pm

Interesting... BUT how can one (You) provide were, or how; this tribe had its huge Influence on the -solo-Sky god & the Zoroastrian beliefs??..........

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Thane
10/29/2013 01:01:27 pm

Two thoughts....

1) perhaps the Satan is good angle is meant to generate controversy and thereby get a bump to ratings. I think it's pretty lame but making the shift from the rebel angels are evil aliens to the rebel angels and their leader or the alien benefactors of humans is extreme position shift. "Satan was a good alien" is headline worthy.

2) I doubt they worry about alienating a core audience as it seems that the majority of AA believers tend to be not practicing, non-believing Christians and/or are Christian hostile. Perhaps this is just a gambit to attack more Christian hostile alien/dimensional Beings believers.

and a final thought;

3) we are just over thinking it. Their theories just shift to confirm to whatever the topic is for that episode and trust that their viewership is low-information enough not to really remember week from week what was said. Since they are running out of topics and always seem to repeat themselves, they are just throwing whatever they think of against a wall and seeing what sticks.

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Thane
10/29/2013 01:08:46 pm

Gah! I really need to proof read. There is no edit button!

Point 1) should read "or" as "are": "rebel angels and their leader or the alien benefactors of humans is extreme position shift."

Point 2) read "attack" as "attract": "Perhaps this is just a gambit to attack more Christian hostile alien/dimensional Beings believers."

About point three....this can also be market research for a new supernatural/demon/magical/occult series hence the absent/limited appearance of the mainstay AATs.

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charlie
10/29/2013 01:24:16 pm

Mandalore and Jason,
Thank you both for mentioning the Yazidi. Just a quick Wikipedia search gives me a good starting point for something else I had not known of until your comments. Just one more reason I check this site every day, I usually learn something new. Thanks again.

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Bill Z.
10/29/2013 01:56:43 pm

Look up McGowan, married to Coppens?
Read her authorship claim to fame and she shows up on this show?
Hmmm

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Jason Colavito link
10/29/2013 02:00:52 pm

It's apostolic succession.

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Aaron Adair link
10/29/2013 03:02:56 pm

I didn't know about this part of the Bellerophon that he tried getting a place at Mt Olympus. However, the literature looking into what the Morning Star (Helel ben Shacher) character was from Isa 14 compares it to Phaethon, at least when considering Greek myths. But then again, the literature only agrees on the level of disagreement.

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Jason Colavito link
10/29/2013 11:28:28 pm

Sorry for the confusion... I was referring just to scaling Olympus, though many have speculated that before the Archaic revision of Greek myth his story might once have been about attempting to seize a place among the gods. G. S. Kirk, for example, emphasized the transgressive nature of Bellerophon's attempt to cross the boundary separating men and gods and thus become, in essence, a god himself--the ultimate in forbidden fruit for a Greek (though not a Roman).

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BigMike
10/29/2013 05:36:05 pm

The closest I ever came to Satan worship was playing the tabletop RPG Demon: The Fallen published by White Wolf games. The background story is a pretty intricately detailed combination of Biblical/Torah based sources as well as extra-canonical writings like the Book of Enoch. There is also an attempt to smooth out some of the bumps in in the narrative by adding in details based on inference and whole-cloth.
Since this is a role-playing game the authors and editors adamantly admit that the book is a work of fiction set in the completely fictional World of Darkness.

I STILL find that book and setting to be more coherent, realistic, and plausible than anything the AATs have been hocking in this episode.

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Shane Sullivan
10/29/2013 06:48:34 pm

I never actually played Demon, but I read through most of the core book and the Earthbound book. I liked them both.

As I recall, it also presented the Anunnaki as fallen angels- they were the demons of the Forge, I believe. But White Wolf actually pulls off a valid product, which goes to show that, as I've said before, Ancient Aliens would make fine fiction if they would only admit that their material is fabricated.

And pay an editor to point out their absurd inconsistencies.

And to put together a cogent narrative...

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Paul Cargile
10/30/2013 02:40:24 am

I'm reminded of the scene in "Prophesy" where Satan (played by Viggo Mortensen) snarls, "I love you more than Jesus."

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Fr. Jack Ashcraft link
10/30/2013 02:03:26 pm

This program gets more pathetic with each episode. Those appearing on it must be mortified to have their names associated with such trash television. The only exception being Bob Larson, who is a notorious media hound. And should anyone want to know more on him, just visit my website and keyword his name on it. He'd be laughable were it not for the fact that he has so many people duped.

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The Other J.
10/30/2013 05:35:12 pm

"a full Aleister Crowley"

That sounds like it should be an item on a menu some place, like Halloween at a donut shop: You can order a half or full Aleister Cruller.

Or maybe it's a new take on a Full English/Irish/Scottish breakfast, but I'd hate to know what's in the blood pudding.

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Jerry Gifford link
11/3/2013 06:46:53 am

I don't know which is more infantile, Ancient Aliens or programming like Ghost Adventures. The best way to ignore such nonsense is not to watch it.

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mwas link
12/9/2013 05:10:39 am

no....watch every bit of it to be prepared coz their religion will soon try to convince you.....equip yourself for you know your GOD

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Miguel DeSantos
11/6/2013 03:53:48 am

The point of this episode is, if god and satan where a alien then we have to forget what the Bible says. Is all just history and nothing to do with religion. Just another story that got told in different ways and point if views.

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Chalimar
12/5/2013 06:21:23 am

I believe the aliens are the fallen angels mentioned in Genesis 6. (Sons of God) Told of in Ezekiel of the vehicles used (UFOs) I think Aliens are in the Bible, and therefore, not nullified. But what AA does: is twist the truth, just like Satan...deceiving many people into believing that Satan is the Father, just as Revelation will foretell. It's Biblical that many of Gods children will be fooled for their lack of knowledge, the knowledge of God, not this knowledge of lies.

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Marius
11/23/2013 02:34:18 pm

This might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

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mwangi link
12/9/2013 05:07:14 am

ancient aliens are devils advocate or even worse devil worshipers...they thrive in speculation and questions,they have no facts and everything that they cant understand ...is from other worlds.the fact is YAHWEH IS NOT LIKE THEM NEITHER DO HE THINK LIKE THEM.....thus they will never get answers.
The fact of the matter is,ancient aliens they talk about are demons from hell and since THE BLOOD WAS POURED AT CALVARY the sightings decreased to 20% less.....the current sightings are real aliens(creatures from other worlds) but not GODS
I warn Christians against these people with a reason.......THEY ARE HERE TO ADVERTISE SATAN

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ihk
2/6/2014 12:10:05 am

You go girl!

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Smedley Butler Jr.
2/13/2014 11:04:51 pm

I'm not religious, but that episode of AA shocked me. I've suspected for a long time that the ancient astronaut theory is an attempt by the power elite to form a global religion that supersedes all existing religions. Especially over the last few years, we have people such as former astronauts, politicians and ex-military telling us that we've been visited by ET and that there is a cover up by our governments. TV shows about ET abound as do movies. Heck, even the Pope's astronomers (I never knew the Pope had astronomers) tell us that they would welcome ET. It almost seems to me as if this is all part of a greater agenda. Maybe I'm just paranoid and it's all about TV ratings.

Just as odd as the AA episode on Satan, I recall how Ronald Reagan stated on several occasions that if hostile ET's ever invaded the Earth, it would bring all of the nations together as one. Seriously, what the hell was that all about?

I'm one of those people that the msm mockingly labels a "conspiracy theorist." No, I don't believe in Chupacabra, I know that Elvis is dead and I'm pretty certain that we went to the Moon. I also know that, in the 90's under Bush Sr. and then Clinton, we murdered a half million Iraqi children via economic sanctions, and that then Sec. of State Madeline Albright told Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes that the death of all of those children was "worth it" (i.e., the attempt to oust Saddam).

There are a plethora of other examples I could site, but that one example is enough to convince me that our political leaders, at least an elite minority, are Hitlerian monsters that need to be tried for war crimes and then hung by their putrid necks. As Lord Acton said more than a century ago, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." I have no doubt that the multi-billionaires that actually run much of the globe, as well as key political and military leaders in service to them, are sociopaths and sadists - scumbags that make La Cosa Nostra look like amateurs.

So, is there truly an agenda to replace existing religions with an ET/Satanic religion? I don't know, but frankly, I wouldn't put anything past the lunatics that comprise the western global mafia, or as some call it (as do the power elite themselves), the New World Order. Heck, Lucis Trust (formerly Lucifer Trust) is a United Nations NGO. I need a beer..............

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Smedley Butler Jr.
2/14/2014 12:23:40 am

"....plethora of other examples' I could "cite...."

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Otto Jr. link
3/1/2014 05:43:51 am

ALL HAIL SATAN...ALL HAIL SATAN...ALL HAIL SATAN!!! HAIL SATAN & BE AT ONE WITH THE FOURTH DIMENSION!!! ALL HAIL SATAN!!!

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Smedley Butler Jr.
3/1/2014 06:21:56 am

Screw Satan. I trust no one but those few people that, over many years, have proven to me that they are trustworthy. If Jesus, Satan or ET were to knock at my front door tomorrow morning, I wouldn't shoot them, but I wouldn't invite them into my home either. Trust must be EARNED OVER TIME. To operate otherwise in this world is an indication that one is a chump.

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Smedley Butler Jr.
3/1/2014 06:22:35 am

To hell with Satan. I trust no one but those few people that, over many years, have proven to me that they are trustworthy. If Jesus, Satan or ET were to knock at my front door tomorrow morning, I wouldn't shoot them, but I wouldn't invite them into my home either. Trust must be EARNED OVER TIME. To operate otherwise in this world is an indication that one is a chump.

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MithrandirOlorin link
5/9/2014 12:34:56 am

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Doris Karavas
5/25/2014 12:19:50 pm

Jason: Thank you so much for doing all of the research on ancient texts and pointing out the glaring discrepancies of this program. Ancient Aliens is widely watched, but is has NO editorial continuity and is poorly researched. In my opinion, at times they get close to the truth, then they totally blow it, like with this episode. The viewer should be totally confused now whether the aliens are the good guys or the bad guys. These AAT's refer to the Bible when it serves their purpose, then do their best hatchet job on it when it doesn't suit their 'theory.' Let's just pray for discernment when the time comes, if it ever does.

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Juliano link
7/22/2014 10:42:14 am

Great to find your blogs. I like your critical thinking. I have had a good laugh to, as I see these charlatans and their absurd theories having their pants pulled down LOL
Here's my take. I think to understand what the mindcontroling psychos are about, what makes them tick, and not get mindwfucked by their insidious and multifaceted deviousness. How they infiltrate, play both sides etc etc is to go right to the crux, and I feel it is this: THEY DO NOW WANT US REMEMBERING AND EXPERIENCING OUR DEEP LOVING INTERRELATIONSHIP WITH THE NATURAL WORLD!! they rather want their BIG SCREEN in our face mesmerizing us with techno-'heaven'. There is a continuum of mind control all way from their 'education' system which we get drilled in from very small (and they want the kids even younger, so I have heard), and then it is 24/7 media hype trying to make us FEAR so they can offer the SOLUTION to buy and consume crap we don't want, making sure whatever it is is to either go out of fashion soon, and/or is planned to become obsolescent. As well as that is 9/11 and the FALSE FLAGS. FEAR SOLUTION. FEAR SOLUTION ad naseum, they got this thang going onnnn! I saw a vide a while back which claimed (I don't know because I refuse to have one) that every cell phone has its numbers in same rows, no matter what style and design, so that if you add each row of numbers and pare down to single digits gets the series 666. Also FOX news --the term FOX can be numerologicaly calculated as 666, and in the films there was (?) 20th Century FOX. In other words this 666 code popping up on their Screen. THE very Screen they want in betwixt us and the natural world.
ALONG with this. To DO this they have to have us paranoid of nature and/or experiencing it as dull as ditch water. The former was in the province of traditional religion and its FEAR of the Devil and Hell and its SOLUTION, Jesus and heaven. Nature was dangerous and fallen.
With the latter, now you are told you are a biological robit. A behaviour robot, 'living' in a dead nature which is without consciousness/spirit. DULL DULL DULL. SCREEN SCREEN SCREEN. BUY ME!! BELIEVE ME!! Psychedelics can resolve this spell, and this is a big reason for the age old taboo agasinst them at least from Babylon. Suere the initiates of the mystery schools may SECRETLY have had them 9though I dont dig their set and settings) but not for the slaves. Ohhh noooo. We are to be mind controled. We have to lose our memory that our bodies, our natures, and nature are sacred. In that way we cling via FEAR to their authority and empty promises as they milk us AND nature dry. So, time to wake the fuck up people :))

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gabriel darke link
8/18/2014 02:36:10 pm

Imagine the gnomes at the Ancient Aliens studio bustling about their libraries and preferred internet sources in search of facts and information, cherrypicking from what they find, then, outline glowing before them, scripting what is most sensational or best represents the flavour of the week,

The boys ( and occasional girl ) meet in the boardroom. The order of presentation is ironed out. There has to be included archival footage of the late Phil Coppens, if possible, ( cuz we all loved Phil ), and of the guys who are too lazy to be filmed repeating themselves. They now have a show.

As for respectable scholarship:

They're under a deadline, they haven't the time to research beyond material they've already written or are planning to, borrowed from or plagiarized. If they haven't been informed about something before now, they're not likely to look it up or even think to do so. They and their buddies already know it all, they're chary of and defiant toward establishment procedures which inhibit free thought and are a waste of their valuable time. They are the experts in their field, and, my, but aren't they making a shitload of money off this crap!


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CHF01
8/22/2014 05:49:19 am

Man...parts of this review were absolutely hilarious. I get a big chuckle out of this line for some reason: "Henry says Quetzalcoatl is Satan because he’s a serpent." Another absolute stinkburger of an episode.

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Jeremy
12/2/2014 03:32:19 pm

IT'S A TRICK!

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Geo UK
12/10/2014 05:04:29 am

Many thanks, Mr C. We've just got this series of AA in the UK and without repeating the comments already here, it really has gone past the point where it's too daft to even laugh at. At the risk of sounding patronising, the "ordinary" guys who fall for this I've come across, never have a specialisation, or skill in the areas that overlap the topic. They tend to be free to engage in confirmation bias: I've got a bit of theology and ethics so even if I forget details/exact references, I can see the red flags miles off with the pseudo religious babble. A medic would with the stuff on implants. A geologist would snicker almost continuously. AA-ites go first and foremost to the bank of people who will always confirm what they think: that everyone in mainstream academia is trying to fool them. The Childress/ Tsoukalos (et al) Kabbala have realised they can pretty much say what they like because that's what the audience expects them to champion above everything else. I once told an AA-ite that they seemed to me a bit like early church era Gnostics but with science instead of the supernatural.... only to have it explained to me that my eyes hadn't been opened to the "real" world and that was why I had such a closed attitude: most people aren't capable of dealing with the truth.... !

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Ken Ammi link
1/22/2015 03:13:57 pm

It is interesting that "Samyaza" (which is spelling about 1,001 different ways) turns up again as an alien within the Billy Meier supposed alien contact case (spelling within that context as Semjase).

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Jenny
3/12/2015 10:20:19 pm

Actually, I disagree with the comments stating that AA is contradicting itself. I'm not saying that I necessarily agree with their point of view, but what they are suggesting rather is that there were two warring factions. That the fallen angels/Satan might've been the ones trying to enlighten humans with Satan possibly as their leader. And on the other hand we have God (extraterrestrial creator of our race likely by means of genetic manipulation) and his angels/army trying to keep us ignorant and from reaching our full potential. So to say that first AA claim that fallen angels are evil and later claim they are good is wrong. In the episode about fallen angels they claim that god/creator and his angels cast down an opposing faction and that these fallen angels were
The ones trying to help us advance against gods will.

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Manny Singh
11/25/2015 08:42:50 pm

Seems like everyone has their own opinions. I like facts, something tangible. I found evidence in paintings done around 1200 - 1600 BC. The most significant painting is known as madonna and saint giovannino and visoki decani monastery. These painting use very traditional ancient style, it uses scotomisation to tell the viewers some hidden messages.

ps: dont worry, you will very easily figure it out when you look at it,

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M a t
6/5/2016 12:26:08 pm

I was really shocked after watching this AA episode... I looked up in google Is AA satanist?, and i found your article. Great article and I agree with you. Very dangerous épisode that can influence non intelligent people. I can't believe this episode is shown on a public channel!

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Ken Ammi link
6/5/2016 04:49:11 pm

I would say that AA is satanist in the sense of attributing the act of creation, manipulating DNA, etc. to "aliens." Also, AA can influence both intelligent as well as non intelligent people--however one wants to determine who is who. I mean, after all within very narrow parameters Richard Dawkins is intelligent but he has offered an AA style of concept to explain human origins even if as an option.

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Chrissie Sattva
9/24/2016 04:23:00 am

I watched the episode and they did not at all say to worship Satan.

They went over his pre-Christian origins and then lied by claiming he's a reptilian.

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Hannah W
8/10/2023 09:12:29 am

Well, I looked this episode up, and tried to watch it, but found out that History Channel for some reason has it blocked in my country. Not the other AA episodes, mind you, just this one. Even on YouTube I can't access it.

Thanks to Jason, I don't need to watch it. But I noted his observation:

"In this, Satan is our hero because he stole UFO secrets to help humanity fight back against the Anunnaki, the Elohim, and that arch-fiend Yahweh."

Given that Yahweh is the God of Israel, I suppose that explains why it was rendered not watchable in my country, which happens to be Israel.

I should also note that this whole philosophy of Satan as hero is Luciferian Theosophy, that the UN has adopted the mother of modern Theosophy (Alice Bailey) as their guiding light, and that the UN is singularly obsessed with condemning Israel. Just saying.

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