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#348 Would Aliens Destroy Christianity? - Karin Oberg

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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A common pop-culture assertion is that if there are intelligent extraterrestrials then Christianity is ruined. Would this discovery disprove the Bible?

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Would discovering aliens disprove Christianity, Dr. Karen Oberg is next.

0:09.5

Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Cancer's podcast for living,

0:12.7

understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I'm Psy Kill at Your Host and when you go to the

0:17.9

movies as a Christian person, do you ever feel like maybe in the movies or even in what you watch

0:24.1

on TV, there's a little bit of prejudice against Christians? I don't know, I maybe I'm alone in

0:29.0

this, but it seems to me that there's often a lot of soft bigotry and some of it not so soft

0:33.8

as far as we Christians go. And when I watched the 2011 Hollywood blockbuster movie Paul about

0:40.3

an alien, a wisecracking alien that makes his way to earth, I had the strong sense of, oh man,

0:46.8

that is just such a sour and ugly depiction of Christians. And one of the things that's in that

0:52.1

depiction of Christians is that, well, Christianity would be undermined if we were to discover

0:57.5

alien life. Here's a little bit of the movie. Where am I?

1:02.7

Hey, look who's awake.

1:04.1

Demon! Demon!

1:05.9

No, no, we're sorry, okay, we're sorry, we're not going to hurt you, I promise,

1:08.8

and we'll let you go just as soon as we can.

1:10.7

You've been deceived by an agent of Satan himself. He's evil.

1:13.6

Sitting right here, come on. No, no, he's not evil, he's just a bit rude.

1:17.4

You know what, we'll try and help him get home. He's from another world.

1:20.4

There's only one world, our world, the world that our God, the Father created.

1:24.4

Hey, if it makes you feel any better, my existence only just proves traditional notions

1:27.8

of the Abrahamic Judeo-Christian God, as well as all one world theology. That's all I meant.

1:38.8

So that's the movie. Maybe I'm using the word bigotry. Maybe that's too strong a thing to

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