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Aliens, Monsters &
Creepy Creatures
What do they teach our
children?
Berit Kjos <crossroad.to>
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"The experience of a close
encounter with a UFO is a shattering physical and mental ordeal. The trauma
has effects that go far beyond what the witness recalls consciously. New
types of behavior are conditioned, and new types of beliefs are promoted.
The social, political and religious consequences of the experience are enormous...."[1] Astrophysicist
Dr. Jacques Vallee
"Our generation won't be shocked by the demonic
invasion. They are actually anticipating that extraterrestrial intelligent
beings, who look very different from us, will some
day contact the earth and help us with ecological, monetary, and political
problems."[2] Larry McLean
The invasion of monsters began decades ago, and
it quickly transformed the world of entertainment. With little resistance, an
army of cute-ugly creatures swept into toy stores, television and movies. They
now adorn children's clothes, bedding, wallpaper, lunchboxes and books. And
many have pushed their way into children's hearts on the backs of seductive
myths that mold their thoughts and manipulate their imagination.
Some of these
monsters are crude and cool like Stitch, Shrek and the serpentine aliens of
Men in Black. Others appear wise and honorable like Yoda in Star
Wars. But the creatures that win
the prize for thrills and chills are the dark and deadly ones like Darth Maul,
Tolkien's Orcs and the ominous aliens in Signs.
They all serve a set of strategic social goals:
They entertain. They shift a person's attention from real world to a
more titillating realm created by those who write the myths and steer the
imagination. They desensitize their fans to mystical images and symbols of
evil. And they stir a craving for more intense excitement of the same kind.
Eventually the real world of nature, families, work and
responsibilities becomes too boring to be enjoyed. Who cares about truth and
facts when myths and fantasies seem far more exciting?
"For the time will come," wrote the apostle Paul
almost two millennia ago, "when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according
to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for
themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and
be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things...." (2 Timothy
4:3-5)
Today's culture has little tolerance for Biblical
watchfulness. Instead, the postmodern masses are embracing their mythical
heroes with a driving passion that often eclipses both family and reality. The
more shocking, crude and ugly, the more cool and captivating the product.
Hollywood and toy makers know that well.
Perhaps you remember the Madballs from the
late eighties. The grotesque bouncing heads bore matching names like
Wolf Breath, Swine Sucker and Screamin' Meenie. With shrewd foresight, their inventor, Ralph
Shaffer, suggested that his successful minispheres
would "take the world of cute-ugly into a new direction."[3]
He was right. The ugly-ugly as
well as the cute-ugly was turning the corner and pulling Western culture with
them. Grotesque, demonic-looking creatures with fiery eyes invaded toy stores,
then stayed. Many were mutants - part animal and part human, or a mixture of
various animals and monster - and most could wield the kind of supernatural
power prescribed by their built-in myths and stories.
They won incredible popularity.
Children quickly overcame their natural aversion to scary images and learned
to treasure these ugly, hybrid, mutant supernaturals. Few
noticed their resemblance to the demonic creatures described or suggested in
the Bible.
One of those early creatures of
darkness, Black Star, would ride on a green horse with huge bat-like
wings and a long dragon tail. Its eyes were glowing red and a long tongue
dangled from its mouth. Another popular invader, Dark Dragon, had black wings and a huge
tail with red scales along the sides. It had a lion's mouth, teeth, and claws.
Its eyes were glowing red, and out of the center of its
forehead shone a large, green third eye. Its chest would open
and expose a skull. No wonder children and young adults learned to love
horrible images, scary movies and dark, demonic computer
games.
In a lecture titled "The Rising
Interest in the Supernatural," Larry McLean, coauthor of The Early Earth, compares today's
grotesque toys to historical images representing ancient
gods:
"These [creatures]
that show up in archeology and what we would call mythology were not just
figments of the imagination. They were literal physical demonic entities
that appeared to civilizations of the past. These types of demigods or
demonic beings were represented as part human and part animal in their
characteristics like this bird-human of the Assyrians. [They can be]
horse-and-human like centaurs. Or fish-and-human like the god Dagon of the
Philistines ... or part jaguar and part human.
"Notice that tongue
hanging out over the chin -- which is a universal symbol of demonic
possession ... One of the most popular combinations is human and serpent. You
can find them on the toy shelves. It's not surprising that pagan religions
worshiped serpents and dragons, for the Bible tells us in Revelation 12 that
the old serpent, the dragon, is Satan the devil."[4]
Nor should today's growing
popularity of devilish images surprise us. The Bible prophesies that demonic
activities will escalate before and during the reign of the Antichrist. Could
the multiplication of demonic-looking, alien images be part of Satan's plan to
prepare us for these awful future events? Even for an invasion of demons?
Don't laugh. There is
plenty of evidence that a sizable percentage of UFO sightings, alien
abductions, crop circles and other extraterrestrial manifestations fit into
the realm of the supernatural. According to John Ankerberg and John Weldon,
"UFOs constitute a spiritistic
(demonic) phenomenon."[5] In
their book, The Facts on UFO's and other Supernatural Phenomena, they
tell us that -
"...few unbiased
researchers can logically deny that UFO experiences are of an occult nature.
If we catalog the basic characteristics of the occult and compare them to
UFO phenomena, we discover an essential similarity....
After 20 years of research,
we believe that the demonic theory dovetails extremely well with the
totality of UFO phenomena.... In fact, we know of no UFO contactee who is
not basically a spiritistic medium. In addition, we have read hundreds of
articles from the oldest and most respected UFO journal, the British
Flying Saucer Review, that indicate the psychic and/or
non-extraterrestrial aspects of UFOs which, given their actions and
messages, indicate probable demonic origin."[6]
The UFO phenomenon simply does not behave like
extraterrestrial visitors. It actually molds itself in order to fit a given
culture.... [The] goal seems to be psychological and social
manipulation."[7]
Ankerberg and Weldon tell
us that "In the U.S. alone, tens of
millions of dollars have been spent in official UFO investigations by the CIA,
FBI, U.S. Army Intelligence, Naval Intelligence, and other organizations."
They quote astrophysicist Dr. Jacques Vallee who describes UFOs as "a bizarre,
seductive, and often terrifying phenomenon reported by many witnesses as
contact with an alien form of intelligence."[8]
Naturally,
many UFO enthusiasts would
disagree. Decades ago, New Agers began to circulate
an interesting theory concerning the coming disappearance of millions of
Christians: A fleet of UFO's and extraterrestrials will suddenly swoop down to
earth and abduct all who resist mankind's spiritual evolution toward global
oneness. But that was wishful thinking.
On the other hand, Revelation
9:1-11 foresees a day when the Abyss (the bottomless pit where Satan will be
cast) will open with a burst of smoke and release an army of powerful, deadly
creatures onto the earth. They will look like a mixture of man, horse and
locust with wings. They will have stinging "tails like scorpions," and their
commander will be Satan himself. Our sovereign God will allow it; for man's
evil - as in the days of Noah - and God's eternal justice will call forth His
judgment.
Though children are born with a
natural fear of hideous, shocking and evil-looking creatures, this God-given
protection has been dulled by America's massive media marketing system.
Children are being conditioned to embrace demonic manifestations, whether they
come as intelligent rescuers from outer space or as evolved mutations from
earth itself.
Why wouldn’t most
children accept these lies? Today's belief in evolution leads them to trust
that other forms of life must have evolved elsewhere. After all,
humanist dreamers tell us, there is no God, but if He existed, He wouldn't
have created the whole universe just for earthlings.
Maybe He would. Maybe God, who
sent His own Son to die for us, would create a universe so vast that man's ego
- which wants to explain every mystery without God's help - could not be
satisfied. Maybe He did it to show us the immeasurable greatness of His
sovereign, creative powers and the infinite width, length, height, and depth
of His magnificent love. I believe He did.
"Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and
knowledge of God!
How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past
finding out!
For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has
become His counselor?"
Or who has first given to Him and it shall be
repaid to him?"
For of Him and through Him and to Him are all
things,
to whom be glory forever." Romans 11:33-36
How can we
encourage our children to follow God and make wise choices
in these
challenging times? Find practical suggestions in -
Your
Child and the New Age and Bewitched
by Harry Potter
Endnotes:
1. Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception: UFO
Contacts and Cults (Berkeley, CA: And Or Press, 1979) pp. 9-10. Cited by
John Ankerberg & John Weldon, The Facts on UFO's and Other Supernatural
Phenomena (Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 1992), page 9.
2. Larry McLean, from tape of lecture titled, "The Rising
Interest in the Supernatural," given at the Seventh Mid-America Prophecy
Conference, Oklahoma City, 27 July 1988.
3. Ralph Shaffer, the director of new-product development at General Mills
Toy Group (which included Kenner and Parker Brothers back in the late
seventies) worked with Bernard Loomis, who conceived the idea of sets of action figures "with lots of
characters and a story tying them together." Promoted through television,
these toys required little personal imagination since they came with built in
myths and pre-designed personalities. Read the interesting history by David Owen, in "Where Toys Come From," The Atlantic Monthly, October 1986.
4.Larry McLean,
from tape of lecture titled, "The Rising Interest in the Supernatural" given
at the Seventh Mid-America Prophecy Conference, Oklahoma City, 27 July
1988.
5. John Ankerberg & John Weldon, The Facts on
UFO's and Other Supernatural Phenomena (Eugene, OR: Harvest House
Publishers, 1992), page 6.
6. Ibid., page14-15.
7.Ibid., page 10.
8. Ibid., page 5,18.
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