Empire of the Odd

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Maitreya Rael, founder and leader of the International Raelian Movement, announced in a statement released today that a UFO that appeared over the Hangzhou airport, forcing authorities to close that facility, is “just the beginning of a huge wave of UFO apparitions that will appear starting now all over China.”

“These UFO s are the vessels used by the Elohim, our creators from space who were described in all ancient Chinese traditions, and who a long time ago had children with the Chinese,” Rael said. “That’s why the Chinese call themselves ‘children from the sky.'”

He added that the Elohim wish to have an embassy built to officially welcome them back to Earth, and they would like it to be build in China.

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• So, when you her the phrase #stupidscientology everybody scream! #
• "Somebody some day will say 'this is illegal.' By then be sure the orgs say what is legal or not." – L. Ron Hubbard, #stupidscientology #
• Saying Scientology is stupid is a gross redundancy. #stupidscientology #
• #stupidscientology "We're playing for blood, the stake is EARTH." – L. Ron Hubbard. #

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An old video from The Onion revealing a hyperbolic martial law bill was recently rediscovered by conservatives, and began to pop up on right-wing Facebook walls.Congratulations tea-baggers, you fell for a 3-year-old joke.

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Telegraph View: The law has established a climate within which pettiness flourishes to the detriment of any common sense.

A councillor faces suspension for dismissing Scientology as “stupid”; another is convicted of racial harassment for calling a colleague a coconut; a householder is made to feel like a racist for objecting to a gipsy site near his home. Every day, it seems, brings another tale of how comments that a few years ago would have been regarded as nothing worse than rudeness – or simply a difference of opinion – have either been criminalised or considered a justification for disciplinary action.

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#stupidscientology “We’re playing for blood, the stake is EARTH.” – L. Ron Hubbard.

Saying Scientology is stupid is a gross redundancy. #stupidscientology

“Somebody some day will say ‘this is illegal.’ By then be sure the orgs say what is legal or not.” – L. Ron Hubbard, #stupidscientology

So, when you her the phrase #stupidscientology everybody scream!

“An unidentified flying object (UFO) disrupted air traffic over Zhejiang’s provincial capital Hangzhou late on Wednesday [July 7], the municipal government said on Thursday. Xiaoshan Airport was closed after the UFO was detected at around 9 pm, and some flights were rerouted …

A source with knowledge of the matter, however, told China Daily on Thursday that authorities had learned what the UFO was after an investigation. But it was not the proper time to publicly disclose the information because there was a military connection, he said, adding that an official explanation is expected to be given on Friday.” [source: People’s Daily, July 9, 2010]

And yet, no official explanation has come after more than a week. Though the Internet is still buzzing with speculation about why the Chinese government wouldn’t clarify the case, perhaps the most immediate question should be why should we trust that anonymous source. Did the source really had “knowledge of the matter”? Or was it simply an unreliable source, which may not even exist?

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American atheists lined up to be “de-baptized” in a ritual using a hair dryer, according to a report Friday on U.S. late-night news program “Nightline.”

Leading atheist Edwin Kagin blasted his fellow non-believers with the hair dryer to symbolically dry up the holy water sprinkled on their heads in days past. The styling tool was emblazoned with a label reading “Reason and Truth.”

Kagin believes parents are wrong to baptize their children before they are able to make their own choices, even slamming some religious education as “child abuse.” He said the blast of hot air was a way for adults to undo what their parents had done.

“I was baptized Catholic. I don’t remember any of it at all,” said 24-year-old Cambridge Boxterman. “According to my mother, I screamed like a banshee … so you can see that even as a young child I didn’t want to be baptized. It’s not fair. I was born atheist, and they were forcing me to become Catholic.”

Kagin doned a monk’s robe and said a few mock-Latin phrases before inviting those wishing to be de-baptized to “come forward now and receive the spirit of hot air that taketh away the stigma and taketh away the remnants of the stain of baptismal water.”

Ironically, Kagin’s own son became a fundamentalist Christian minister after having “a personal revelation in Jesus Christ.”

“One wonders where they went wrong,” he chuckled to the TV show.

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