Georgia Republican lawmaker also claims she didn’t know Rothschild family, of her ‘space laser’ theory, was Jewish
Republican US House member Marjorie Taylor Greene has said she believes in demons, surmising that they might be aliens who fell from heaven, and claims to have been unaware that key figures in the antisemitic space lasers conspiracy she floated were Jewish.
She made those bizarre remarks as a guest on Friday on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher after winning some fans among Democrats who once loathed her – yet had come to appreciate how the far-right Georgia representative had recently broken with Republicans on various issues. Those include healthcare, Gaza, the federal government shutdown that began on 1 October and the handling of documents pertaining to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was friends with Donald Trump before the latter man won two presidencies.
Greene’s appearance on Maher’s show perhaps made evident the ideological distance between the congresswoman – who has conspicuously avoided directly criticizing Trump himself – and some of her newer, cross-aisle admirers.
You know I figured if we found extraterrestrial life it would result in a massive crisis of faith for every religion, don’t know why it never occurred to me that that is 100% what they’d think if we found extraterrestrial life.
Well, not all religions. Mormons would probably see it as more proof that they’re right. They believe that God made multiple planets with sentient species. Besides that, gets a little bit conflicting. Then there’s the Heaven’s Gates. The weird alien obsessed ones. Probably a couple more, but those are the only ones I can think of. Oh, and Buddhism. Maybe. I don’t know much, but I don’t think that aliens existing conflicts with any of its principles.
Religions are very adaptable. At least the ones that survive long times. Simply need to reinterpret scripture to include the new information, even claim to predict it. I think there’s a certain percentage or type of people who need some kind of religious structure to deal with life, it’s a biological thing. Being skeptical and setting aside your own beliefs for analysis is not an easy thing to do.
Of course it could go the other way and aliens confirm that the religion is true, just maybe that our records of events is off a bit. Cue the joke about the aliens saying they absolutely know Jesus, he comes by every year because they give him cookies or chocolate, and then ask why he doesn’t come to Earth regularly, what did we give him?