Raëlism
See also: Raelism
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editThe movement was founded in the 1970s by "Raël" (Claude Vorilhon). Hence, Raël + -ism. Raël coming from Israel.
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editRaëlism
- A UFO religion with liberal sexual views, holding that all life on Earth was created in scientific laboratories by extraterrestrials.
- 2001, Twonky, “Which one? (WARNING God stuff)”, in alt.paranormal.crop-circles (Usenet):
- Raëlism differs from Deistic Christianity.
- 2010, Savasan Yurtsever, Psalms Code, page 61:
- In December 2002, Clonaid, the medical arm of a religion called Raëlism, who believe that aliens introduced human life on Earth, claimed to have successfully cloned a human being.
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edit- (religions) religion; agnosticism, Asatru, atheism, Ayyavazhi, Baháʼí Faith, Bon, Buddhism, Cao Dai, Cheondoism, Christianity, deism, Druidry, Druze, Eckankar, Heathenry, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Jediism, Judaism, Kimbanguism, Odinism, paganism, Pastafarianism, Raëlism, Rastafarianism, Rodnovery, Romuva, Samaritanism, Sanamahism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, Tengrism, Thelema, Unitarian Universalism, Wicca, Yahwism, Yazidism, Yoruba, Zoroastrianism (Category: en:Religion) [edit]
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editreligion with liberal sexual views
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