{"id":2703,"date":"2025-03-10T10:42:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/why-not-religion\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T10:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:42:49","slug":"why-not-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/why-not-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not religion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why not consider religion? As the discussion around UFOs becomes more intricate and mysterious, many are beginning to see it through a spiritual lens. People are drawing parallels between these phenomena and religious interpretations, invoking concepts like angels and demons.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who has studied various religions and identifies as a Christian, I find my beliefs to be more pragmatic than traditional views. It seems quite plausible that the foundations of religion, as we understand them today, could be influenced by encounters with non-human intelligences (NHI). If individuals today can mistakenly identify a floating orb as an angel, it\u2019s likely that ancient shepherds thousands of years ago could have attributed divine qualities to NHI, shaping the religions we have today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nWhy not consider religion? As the discussion around UFOs becomes more intricate and mysterious, many are beginning to see it through a spiritual lens. People are drawing parallels between these phenomena and religious interpretations, invoking concepts like angels and demons. As someone who has studied various religions and identifies as a Christian, I find my&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/why-not-religion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Why not religion?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}