This is the audio version of my latest essay on the history of the idea of extraterrestrials in American religion, retracing the roots of belief in aliens to the origins of modernity.
Joseph Smith And The Galactic Order
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Within the cosmology of literalist Latter Day Saints, “Heaven or the Celestial Kingdom is seen as a real place which exists in time and space,” Lynn M. Hilton writes. “It consists of gigantic stars, (kolob plus others) at the center, each radiating with great energy and power” at the center of our galaxy. This “
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