Raëlians - ohh how I'm sorry for ignoring you.

I ran across this article which is mostly an interview with Rael and I realized that I have neglected to post anything about them. They must have felt totally left out after all my posts of Christian Scientists. So here's something to cheer them up- their very own post on my blog!

...That's because Raëlians are atheists, sort of. They believe people were intelligently designed, but by superintelligent extraterrestrials called the Elohim rather than God. Raël claims he's met with the Elohim twice, once when they visited him in late 1973 to explain that they created people as well as all of the major religions, and again two years later when they took him via spaceship to their planet, where he met Jesus, Buddha, Moses, and Muhammad and learned that the key to happiness was a philosophy based on a pursuit of pleasure and knowledge. The Elohim also charged him with the construction of an embassy so that they could return to Earth as a neutral party.