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of which I would be the father and the liaison-person between the planet of our creators and Earth, I, the one whose mission is to tat ae ated ta becomes rationally understandable for everyone. And yet the sentence at the beginning of this chapter had exactly the same meaning. In the mind of a mystical, narrow-minded primitive as shown, our example demonstrates clearly how easy it is to change the true sense of a sentence if the precise meaning of the words is not 1 respected. Thus it becomes clear that the Raelian Movement is a religion; it ties the creators of Humanity with their creation, even if it is in fact an atheist religion, in the sense that it does not believe in the existence of a God - atheist from the Greek atheos which means “denying the c c on ) existence of any form of divinity”. Many people say that the practice of a cult defines the character of a religion. What is a cult? Derived from the Latin cu/tus meaning “tribute rendered to a God”, but we would then say “tribute rendered to the creators”, since Elohim is a plural. The telepathic contact on Sunday mornings at 11 o'clock, the obligation of thinking at least once a day about the Elohim (Book 2, pg. 175), the obligation of inviting the regional Guide at least once a year to one’s table so that he can talk about the messages, the monthly meeting with the regional Guide, the annual meeting on the 6th of August to celebrate the entry into the Age of Apocalypse - all of those ceremonies could be qualified as a cult, for each one of them is designed to pay tribute to our creators, at regular intervals, alone or in groups. Even if the Raelians do not believe in a “God”, they still recognize Jesus as a messenger sent by our creators, just as they do Moses, Buddha, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, and all the other great prophets who have lived on this Earth, and await their return in the company of the Elohim as the scriptures have predicted. The Raelian believes in the deeper meaning of the scriptures, more particularly the biblical 312 INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS reveal the universal tie which unites men and their creators. If you take the mysticism out of the words, then the sentence - oon 1 tiae a4 !