Talk:UFO religion
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An entry from UFO religion appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 7 February 2006. |
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[edit] Title
Couldn't the title and the entire subject of this article perhaps be considered POV? If these groups wouldn't agree with this classification, isn't it POV to group them as such? We should cite sources for every grouping made in this article and phrases it as "X source defines Y group as a UFO religion". Tfine80 17:16, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nation of Islam
Should this should also be included as it has as one of its beliefs that there is a "mothership" that will destroy the white devil? This might be a UFO but as there are technically no "aliens" related to this ship, some may object. --ScienceApologist 19:33, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you for giving me a "WTF?" moment. :-) I think it's worth mentioning, certainly. -- ChrisO 19:44, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nation of Islam
I agree. Categorizing a valid religion such as Islam with UFO religions, which are typically considered to be BS religions, seems iffy.
- "Valid religion?" What is a "valid religion?" I've never seen one. Flyingsaucerism is surely no more preposterous than stories of thunder-gods on mountaintops, or demigods who rise from the dead and heal the sick. Flying saucer cults are ridiculous, yes. But surely no more and no less ridiculous than Christianity or Islam.
[edit] The X-Files
Yeah. Ummm, is that Mulderism religion real, or did someone just make a pretty big joke? I'm sorry if I am offending a real Mulderian.
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- I can find no sources for it aside from that one website. Joke or not, it's a vanity entry and I'm tossing it. wikipediatrix 15:25, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Ashtar Command
someone care to make an entry on them here?
[edit] Invader Zim
In the episode, Attack of the Saucer Morons, of Invader Zim they parody UFO religions when Zim crashes his ship in the middle of one's convention, Should this be listed in the article? --68.224.37.19 03:22, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] I suspect confusion...
"A publication produced at this time that received some press attention was titled "How to build a U.F.O." and purported to describe an interplanetary spacecraft built out of materials such as old tires."
There may have been an actual publication titled "How to build a U.F.O." that purported to describe an interplanetary spacecraft, but I suspect with the reference to "materials such as old tires" that, at the very least, this publication is being confused with Earth Ship: How to Build Your Own, a how-to book produced by Heaven's Gate. Despite the title, it's not a how-to on building an interplanetary craft but rather a style of architecture which used recycled tires as a major component.[1] -- Antaeus Feldspar 17:15, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
