Christian apologist Frank Turek says believers have no reason to fear that the discovery of aliens would somehow undermine Christianity, as public fascination with UFOs and extraterrestrial life continues to grow.
Speaking at an event at the University of Tennessee, Turek was asked how Christians should respond to ongoing discussions about aliens and unidentified flying objects, and specifically how to “talk people off the ledge” when it comes to discussions about aliens.
“Unidentified flying objects in my view are unidentified flying objects,” Turek responded. “So I don’t know if there are aliens or not. Is there intelligent life out there?”
“If there is intelligent life out there, it doesn’t affect Christianity,” he insisted. “God would still be the creator of that intelligent life.”
Turek also weighed in on the belief that extraterrestrials and UFOs are demonic by simply stating, “I don’t know.”
He added, “I’m not sure where all this is going [on], but there obviously have been some very strange happenings and no matter what it is, it’s not going to defeat Christianity because aliens, if they exist at all, are inside the universe and had to be created just like us.”
The question about how Christians should view aliens comes as famed movie director Steven Spielberg suggested in a recent interview that his new movie about extraterrestrial life, “Disclosure Day,” will cause people to question “the fundamental beliefs that many of us have.”
The filmmaker claimed that one of the movie’s central questions is, “Is God, our God, only on this planet, or is God a God for every system where there’s civilization, intelligent life and even developing life?”
Even before “Disclosure Day” made headlines, prominent political figures were questioning whether UFOs and aliens were demonic or even fallen angels.
Last year, Vice President JD Vance weighed in on the possibility of extraterrestrial life by proclaiming, “I wouldn’t say that I do or don’t believe [in aliens].”
“I’m a big believer that there are things out there we can’t explain. And so, if another person sees an alien, maybe I see an angel or a demon,” he said. “I’m a big believer that there are like spiritual forces working on the physical world that a lot of us don’t see and a lot of us don’t understand and a lot of us don’t appreciate.”
Former Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene answered in the affirmative when asked if she thought aliens are fallen angels: “That’s possible, I think that’s what they could be. That’s what makes sense in my worldview.”
In a video interview released last month, Catholic priest and exorcist Monsignor Stephen Rossetti shared his personal belief that “probably many, if not most, of these UFO sightings are, in fact, demons; and they can do things that we can’t do, such [as] the speed and all sorts of things that human beings can’t do.”
While Rossetti stressed in the video that he wasn’t speaking on behalf of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Robert McElroy of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington announced that Rossetti’s comments prompted him to cut ties with the exorcist.
McElroy maintained that Rossetti’s comments, as well as his organization, the St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal, “gravely undermine the Church’s very precise teaching on the devil, demons and exorcism.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: [email protected]
