What if tomorrow, a group of space aliens came along, and offered irrefutable evidence that our "gods" were space aliens of various flavors? They decided that they would play a joke/control our development/have someplace to vacation where people worshiped them/etc.
What do you think it would mean for humanity? Would it cause a huge war? would it cause people of various faiths to change? What does it mean for religious faiths when this happens?
On Saturday Feb. 10th, York Suburban High School’s drama club is going to be doing a play called “The Laramie Project”, which deals with the reaction to the tragic 1998 death of Matthew Shepherd, a gay college student who was tied to a fence and beaten to death by two men.
Fred Phelps, the leader of the Westboro Baptist Chuch in Kansas picketed Shepherd’s funeral, bearing signs with slogans like “AIDS Kills Fags Dead.” After his burial, the pastor proposed that the city erect a 6 foot monument with a picture of Shepherd bearing the words “MATTHEW SHEPARD Entered Hell on October 12 1998 in Defiance of God’s Warnings.” The church also runs the site www.GodHatesFags.com, which has a counter under their Memorial section that says “Matthew Shepherd has been in Hell for 3034 days.”