Introduction

The Raelian Religion has been in the media much largely for its sensational leader name Rael, who’s real name is Claude Vorilhon, a former French automobile journalist turned religious UFO cult leader. Besides this, and also the Raelian Religion attempt to clone human babies, the Raelian Religion has also been known for it somewhat eccentric view of morality and ethics.

The Raelian Religion has a free email newsletter sent out several times daily to its subscribers, which often feature articles from the mainstream media concerning the latest development in science and technology. Every email always end with a little three paragraph quote from Rael on ethics as follows:

This article would be looking at the excerpt provided above and demonstrate how we need REAL ethics and not Rael’s blabbing of nonsense.

First Paragraph: Past Problem

According to Rael, ethics is just something the religious people (or “deist conservatives and orthodox dogmatics”) imposed upon the people so they can be afraid of “science and new technologies”.  How this is so he does not discuss as this paragraph is too broadly generalized. Besides committing the logical fallacy of generalization, the paragraph also commits the logical fallacy of hasty inductive generalization. This is when a conclusion is arrived from a sample of experiences or case that is too small.  While theoretically there might be some moral theists who might oppose new technology per se, this does not mean every moral conservative would oppose scientific development. Rael needs to be reminded of such names as Thomas Edison, Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.

Second Paragraph: Ethics Against Science?

It is interesting how a paragraph ago Rael mentions that ethics is nothing more than a myth espoused by a bunch of dogmatics. Then in the second paragraph he goes on to bash history as something to be ashamed of. Ironically, Rael’s own history is problematic just a paragraph ago! Though there is no standard of right and wrong, man’s history is a succession of “violations”! Or how about history being “mistakes” when doing something wrong does not exist? Elsewhere, the Raelian Religion slits its own throat when it takes on a moral issue in its newsletter. One newsletter was titled, “Priests' Sex Abuse Victims demand US Church reform” on December 14, 2002 in which it reports on the immorality of the sex abuse case with the Catholic Church. It also sent out a newsletter on December 11^th, 2002 titled, “Hollywood stars rail against war”. It would be impossible to press for reform or oppose war as “evil” when such a concept wouldn’t exist in a world where ethics doesn’t exist.  Examining the second paragraph, Rael also mentions “intolerance”, a negative ethical trait. Though Rael see man’s past as a succession of intolerance, hypocritically he himself display intolerance towards ethical theists. This clearly shows that in reality, Rael view is not amoral (meaning moral does not exist) but that he is IMMORAL. Though he recognizes morality, he tries to suppress and deny its existence to live his evil life of gross guru sexuality. (As reported in “The Sexual Messiah.” National Post (Canada), Aug. 7, 1999 )

Third Paragraph: Science Without Ethics

Rael commits the logical fallacy of mutual exclusiveness when he asserted that we either must accept science or “the myth of god”. Belief in God and science is not a case of one or the other. As shown earlier when we dealt with the first paragraph, there are ethical theists who have contributed much to the advancement of scientific knowledge and technological development.  Also, to think that technological advancement disproved God is to commit a categorical logical fallacy (an example: thinking the musical note C doesn’t exist by asking what is its color). Technology concerns making innovations and inventing new items that would assist or able to accomplish certain task and to assert that this field disprove God is simply absurd. Though Rael thinks that technology would liberate man from death, he has yet to find out that the death ratio is still one per person. If he wants to be liberated from death, the only way is through Jesus Christ, the savior of sinners who took the load on the Cross.

Conclusion

Rael’s or real ethics? The Raelian Religion is spiritually bankrupt. God’s wrath would come upon those who choose to indulge in their sins and attempt to suppress the truth that MORALS and ETHICS does exist.  Be warned, God does hold sinners accountable.  The only way is repentance, and accepting God’s saving grace through Jesus death on the cross.

--Jimmy Li