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tens of millions of people embrace ETs as our saviors with a fervor seldom matched by most Christians. In his foreword to Jacques Vallee's book Dimensions, Whitley Strieber discusses the profound religious implications of the UFO phenomenon: "It is a social issue of the utmost importance, because it has all the potential of a truly powerful idea to enter unconscious mythology and there to generate beliefs so broad in their scope and deep in their impact that they emerge with religious implications for the surrounding culture. The only thing now needed to make the UFO myth a new religion of remarkable scope and force is a single undeniable sighting." With our insights into the nature, agenda, and purposes of Antichrist, Strieber's observation presents the chilling possibility that a global, ecumenical religion that generates "beliefs so broad in their scope and deep in their impact" could be built around the UFO motif. All that is needed, according to Strieber, is "a single undeniable sighting." The power of the UFO phenomenon to inspire religious awe is even confirmed by Jacques Vallee: "I think the stage is set for the appearance of new faiths, centered on the UFO belief. To a greater degree than all the phenomena modem science is confronting, the UFO can inspire awe, the sense of the smallness of man, and an idea of the possibility of contact with the cosmic. The religions we have briefly surveyed began with the miraculous experiences of one person, but today there are thousands for whom the belief in other-worldly contact is based on intimate Doe A ak ee ed ek tat TINE conviction, drawn from what they regard as personal contact with UFOs and their occupants."** That Satan will exploit this power in the near future we believe is certain, but the good news is told by the Apostle John: "And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever" (Revelation 11:15). Amen! 176