Ufology and christianity: Compelling connection

[Bucklecroft Rudy]

http://www.angelfire.com/on2/ce4/premise.html

His abduction started out typically, ie., late at night, in bed. Earlier in the evening
he saw some anomalous lights through his living room window over a forest north of his
house. He assumed it was a police helicopter searching for drug runners or something.
Whatever it was, it agitated his dogs for several hours thereafter. He eventually went to
bed.

He was lying in bed, kept wide awake by the barking dogs, when paralysis set in.
He was unable to cry out. He could see nothing but a whitish gray, like a mist or fog,
although he sensed someone or something was in his room. His Wife didn't waken. The
next thing he knew, he was being levitated above his bed. He then had the sensation he
was being suspended by what felt like a pole inserted into his rectum. By this time, he
was alive with terror, but he couldn't scream.

Here is where the story becomes very interesting. The following is an excerpt
taken directly from the transcript of Mr. D.'s interview:


"I thought I was having a Satanic experience; that the devil had gotten a hold of me
and had shoved a pole up my rectum and was holding me up in the air... So helpless, I
couldn't do anything. I said, 'Jesus, Jesus, help me!' or 'Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!' When I
did, there was a feeling or a sound or something that either my words that I thought or
the words that I had tried to say or whatever, had hurt whatever was holding me up in
the air on this pole. And I felt like it was withdrawn and I fell. I hit the bed, because it
was like I was thrown back in bed. I really can't tell, but when I did, my wife woke up
and asked why I was jumping on the bed." (5)


This man was able to stop his abduction. Until this point, Jordan and Clark had
assumed Abductees were taken, willingly or not. To stop an abduction was something
they had never heard of, and this gentleman did it by calling upon the name of Jesus.
This particular case was astounding. This case seemed to involve some kind of spiritual
aspect. The spiritual element of UFO/abduction phenomena was well recognized as a
contributing factor by many researchers in the past, however to their knowledge, no one
had ever done any specific research into the spiritual element itself. Could there be
other similar cases? CE 4 began a systematic search of the UFO/abduction community,
through the Internet, and the published findings of other researchers. The premise of
spiritual warfare was beginning to develop.

While CE 4 were researching the spiritual angle of abduction phenomena, Rita
Elkins, a staff writer with Florida Today newspaper, began gathering material for an
article entitled "Spiritual Warfare."(6) As CE 4 Research Group was already
developing a presence within the UFO/abduction community in East Central Florida, Ms.
Elkins contacted Jordan and Clark, interviewing them extensively.

The resulting article drew a large number of responses within the local area. Many
of those responding gave accounts of their own experiences, happy to have someone to
relate them to. Most of the respondents were Christians and the subject of spiritual
warfare is not one organized religion prefers to deal with, and they didn't feel
comfortable discussing their experiences with UFO investigators due to the New Age
inclination of many UFOlogists. As the number of cases mounted, the data showed that
in every instance where the victim knew to invoke the name of Jesus Christ, the event
stopped. Period. The evidence was becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.

What do you guys think of this? I would like to see this investigated more widely. For example do buddhists who use this method escape? Is there a 100percent success rate and if not what is the emergent pattern? Many Christians believe that the UFO phenomenon is demonic, in fact the article I posted provides 2 quotes from an atheist university prof and a buddhist that nodded in agreement with this theory.

Im not even convinced that UFO's are real although I seem to be in the minority. There is some really fascinating footage out there sure but theres also alot of evidence to suggest that the entire thing is a great money making machine for the researchers involved. The only accounts I would consider to have any validity would be those (ironically) provided by the government historical accounts or group sightings.

 

[Bricheta_albastra]

Sounds like sleep paralysis to me.

 

[Bucklecroft Rudy]

It really does your right. I wanted to find out if this was the first case and whether it was widely reported. If so it does put similar cases into doubt since they could simply be a result of suggestion. However apparently there are loads of independent cases of this working. It turns out (I cannot verify this with stats but it seems to be accepted fact widely) that no devout sola scriptura christians experience UFO abductions. This could be due to the belief in a human-centric universe but it shows that these subjects are using the name of Jesus in desperation as a last resort - their faith is foregrounded by the event. Basically it attributes inherent power to the name of Jesus which Christians have asserted to be true for millenia.

 

[hiphophippy]

Prophet yahweh?