The crux here is that far too many will reflexively fail to recognize that BOTH are utter fantasy, but only the former has fomented centuries of war, famine, pestilence, death —oh, hey, wait a minute...

Both sides of my SO family believe that angels are aliens. My GIL used to really be into it before she died. Talked about spacial compacting and how its possible and other sci-fi buzzwords all originated from the Bible. I wonder if scientology or some other thing influenced her beliefs or the ppl feeding into it.