Angels And Aliens; Connecting The Dots

Throughout recorded history, human beings have claimed to make contact with supernatural powers from beyond this world. In Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions, for instance, there are beings known as angels; which play an enormously important role in these traditions; including helping in creating the first human beings, revealing sacred scriptures & helping in founding religions. They help in transporting prophets and seers, like Enoch and Muhammad, through the heavens to receive sacred wisdom. And they become warriors in the apocalypse, battling demons and helping to create a new earth.

Since 1947, a new extra-terrestrial power has appeared in literature, film, comics and religious scripture: The Alien. Abductees, artists, and religious visionaries claim that aliens perform all of the same actions historically attributed to angels! Aliens today found religions, transport humans to distant worlds, conduct genetic experiments, and, in films, attempt to destroy human civilization.

How do we make sense of these uncanny parallels? Are angels really supernatural beings from heaven, or something more? If so, might angels really be travellers -visiting earth from beyond?