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Humanity are presently living. The word faith comes from the Latin fides and means “commitment, link”. So, it is therefore possible to not “believe without understanding”, while, at the same time, giving your trust to the Elohim, having faith in them, because those who have the intelligence to have faith in them will be rewarded regardless. While WY soe 1d trying to prevent Humanity from committing the irrevocable error, a Raelian has faith in the Elohim, because he knows that they will not forget him in the event of a fatal cataclysm. If there had been a newspaper in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, it would have reported on the unemployment, the energy crisis due to a shortage of slaves, and also of the ever increasing cost of living due to the exorbitant Roman taxes. These headlines would have fed the front-page of all the newspapers, if they existed, and would have fed all the conversations. Then there would have been a few lines written by the official “scientists” of the day, or an editor seeking recognition, on this false prophet claiming to be “the king of the Jews”, and it would be suggested to the authorities that this man be arrested immediately because he is dragging a hoard of credulous people, his “followers” ; around with him. One should not abuse the public’s credulity in this way... So this “illuminated person” is then arrested, tried and sentenced to death. This man who had dedicated his life to spreading the messages of our creators will be found crucified between two bandits. What crime had he committed? Unlawful practice of the truth reserved only for the representatives of the officially registered religions: those which had been in existence for at least two or three hundred years? You could call it a sort of “controlled appellation”. 314 INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS ‘Deresponsibilisation’