Entering the headquarters of the Raelian religious sect,
past a sign welcoming visitors to UFOland, is like strolling onto the set of a
bad 1950s sci-fi movie, complete with a replica of the flying saucer that
supposedly brought the space aliens who visited Rael, the sect founder. But the
display lights don’t work and inflated plastic pool seats create the command
post.
It is interesting that the media has been calling the Raelians who are
atheists and don’t believe in any type of God a religious cult. I know that in
modern dictionaries one
of the definitions for religion is “a set of strongly-held beliefs, values,
and attitudes that somebody lives by”, though I doubt many atheists would accept
atheism being called a religion. Whenever it suits the media’s needs to
disparage someone they will attach the label religious to them. I just don’t
seem to recall them attaching religious to any other atheistic
organizations.
