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By: Dave Clark
I looked up in shock and the Chief Astronomer laughed at me. "There's a lot worse than that," he said. "There are at least twenty death threats in that pile and some of the language is shocking, more ‘f’s and ‘c’s than you’d believe. Over two hundred of those letters altogether."
"But why?"
"I guess these people just don't like their views challenged by the facts. Would rather live in ignorance. I guess it would be like your reaction if science proved that lunch was bad for you."
"I wouldn't mind that much. I’d just become a breakfast chef instead."
The Chief Astronomer laughed and said that he guessed it would all blow over in a few weeks. He couldn't have been more wrong.
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We all thought this religious claptrap was something of a joke, at least until Pastor Kenny Abraham came along. He was just a minor religious figure from the backwaters of Nevada, but somehow, overnight, he was suddenly everywhere. Even the New York Times, usually a bastion of journalistic good sense, printed an article by the pastor. The excerpt below is typical of an Abraham rant.
“Reverend Bobkins is wrong to say, in last Tuesday's Times, that the Observatory team somehow made up their findings. We, as good Christians, must accept the truth shown to us by science. There is life on Omega 5. Aliens do exist. The stories of UFO sightings, abductions, even of alien rape, have been true all along.
“Yet Reverend Bobkins is right in every other respect. Whatever these aliens are, they are not God's creation. The Bible is clear on this point, the Earth is the centre of God's universe, it was created for man by God, so that man can serve God's will. These aliens, therefore, must be the creation of the Devil, here to subvert God's plan.
“Now I can't prove to you that these aliens mean us harm. Proof is the work of scientists, and they have already given us proof that the aliens are out there. That in itself is an affront to God's word, for the Bible tells us that life is unique to Earth. By their very existence these aliens offend our good Christian beliefs, but that is the least of our concerns. These aliens were created by the Devil, the Devil's children don't sit on their idle hands, they pose an eternal threat to God's work.
“We don't know what these aliens are planning, but can we afford to take a chance? To take a chance with our very lives, with the lives of our sons and daughters, with everything the good Lord created. That is why I have formed the Just in Case Party. The Party calls for a pre-emptive strike against these aliens before they destroy us.”
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