Video snapshot: "Topless rights" protest hosted by Raëlian UFO clone sex cult
The Raëlians, a religious cult that basically gets you in the door with promises of free sex, then brainwashes you with a bunch of garbage about UFOs and cloning and giving all your money to the church, hosted a "topless rights" parade in Venice Beach today. Here's a short video snapshot I shot on my trusty iContraption. The parade was kind of a letdown, I was expecting more space aliens, or at least something with better art direction, like their Star Wars knockoffs. The premise of the march had something to do with the 14th amendment, and acceptance of the female body as a sacred vehicle for extraterrestrial meat-worship.
Moobs were displayed. Signs were carried. Some women paraded around with nipple-shaped pasties on. That's about it. Just another day in Venice.
Video snapshot: Raëlian Topless Alien Sex March, Venice (Warning: shows some dudes wearing bras, and some women walking around showing off their bewbs)
More: gotopless.org, rael.org. (Thanks for the heads up, Sean Bonner)
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I love how some men showed their support by covering their own man boobs with a manzire/bro.
Come to NY, here women are legally allowed to go topless anywhere a man can.
Ever see that Golden Eggs clip?
"It's not a bra! It's a supporter for my pectoral muscles!"
"Dude, that is totally a bra."
I think they're just looking for viable CloneAid applicants on the cheap.
For those who are wondering, this is Venice Beach in California. No canals, in spite of the alien issues.
Michel Houellebecq's SF novel "The Possibility of an Island" follows a cult very much like the Raëlians (the 'Elohimites') and takes the premise of their cloning success to its logical end: the story follows a character, Daniel, and his 23rd and 24th generation "neohuman" clones far off in the future.
Once one gets past hating Houellebecq, there's much to love: beneath his misanthropic, pornographic, nihilistic exterior, there lurks a heartbroken hippie.
Of course, the real life Raëlians are one hundred percent dingleberries.
I was part of this protest (see me at :53), had no idea it was hosted by a sex cult lol
My friend and I just joined for fun. At least my biubies got a tan.
Eh, the Raëlians are no crazier than Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhist, and rest of the gang. Just because of the rest of them have a bigger following and don't even put on the pretense of having their views work in a natural world (god is magic!) doesn't make them saner.
oi! watch who yer lumping in there! Buddhism is not a religion.
Buddhism is most certainly a religion. If the first sentence of Wikipedia doesn't convince you, then super natural beliefs in reincarnation should probably be a give away. Don't get me wrong, as far as religions go I think the Buddhist are the most pleasant and sane in their beliefs. But they still are, from the point of view of a naturalist, rather crazy.
@Takuan: C'mon. There are, certainly, some variant flavors of Buddhism that are arguably not religions; but there are plenty more that definitely are. You could, with only slightly greater violence to the truth, say "Christianity is not a religion" and offer some ultraliberal and essentially nonobservant congregation of Cambridge Unitarians as evidence.
Man, I leave town for one day and suddenly women are topless in the streets
Come on, lumping religions that have 2k years of thought behind them in with wacky sex cults does a disservice to both.
lolreligion might be your point of view, but painting complex situations as simple ones contributes to the heat death of our society.
I think I may have finally found a whacko cult that I can believe in!
@14, if something is wacky enough it may take 2k years to rationalize and address conflicting loose ends
I ran a 10k in Montreal once and the Raelians had a booth near the finish line with a banner proclaiming:
"No to drugs in sport, yes to genetic manipulation in sport."
Their idea was that the Olympics would be a lot more fun to watch if the competitors were genetically manipulated mutants who were capable of running 100m in 6 seconds.
The big 5 I picked out are believe in, straight up, magic. People walking on water, gods walking the earth, reincarnated souls, souls sent to heave/hell/etc, ressurections, mass killing by magic, and various other acts of large scale magic, talking animals, talking bushes, and timelines and events that fall flat faced at even the most basic geology, paleontology, and archeology. They might be a well respected group of crazies and our societies might have taught us to smile and nod at them like they are not babbling cultist, but in truth, their ideas are as crazy as the Raëlians. If anything, the Raëlians have slightly more probable beliefs in that bored aliens are more likely than magical entities.
Trashing on alien sex cultist for having stupid and insane beliefs when you believe anything from the various 'respected' religions should cause you to feel a twinge of guilt and hypocrisy.
Thankfully, I am a godless heathen and can, without feeling a twinge of hypocrisy or guilt say that those dudes are fucking crazy.
The Christian church which gets you in the door with promises of eternal life, and then tries to brainwash you with ideas of omnipotent gods, sacrificial rites involving "only begotten sons", and giving your money to the church.
I'll take the Raelians, thanks.
What's all the fuss about, women already have the right to go topless anywhere men can go topless! Oh, that's right, we are not talking about Canada, but the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave...They have laws against *everything*! :-)
The Raëlians sound a lot like:
The Christians, a religious cult that basically gets you in the door with promises of eternal life, then brainwashes you with a bunch of garbage about virgin births and creation myths and giving all your money to the church...
or perhaps:
The Muslims, a religious cult that basically gets you in the door with promises of eternal life, then brainwashes you with a bunch of garbage about virgins and jihad and giving all your money to the mosque...
etc. etc. ad nauseum
Full disclosure...Raelians are from Quebec, Canada, along with Celine Dion.
The impulse to require a woman to cover her face is not much different from the impulse to require her to cover her breasts. That is, the bra and the burka have much in common.
They take all your money? Brain wash you?
But you still get fee sex, right?
#6 actually there are canals in Venice Beach, California.
As an atheist who's much against religion, I must protest the idea that Christians/Muslims are the same as the Raelians.
Unlike the Raelians or Scientology, it costs nothing to study the Bible/Coran/Torah (as far as money goes).
The kind of relativism that puts all beliefs and religions on the same level is used by Rael to excuse his scams and pedophilia.
Pyros @23 - I read your comment to my girlfriend and asked her what she thought about it. She said "Maybe he has a point, but I like my bra. It hurts eventually if you go around without it! I like the support."
So maybe the bra is a burka to you, but it's equally valid to say it's a bionic enhancement (artificial device that gives the human body power)
Quantity does not equal quality.
The impulse to require a woman to cover her face is not much different from the impulse to require her to cover her breasts.
That cuts both ways. Telling women that they're not allowed to wear the burka in public isn't that different from telling women that they're required to go topless. In both scenarios, it seems to be men making the rules. Yeah, I'm looking at you, Sarkozy.
People should wear what makes them comfortable.
yeeeesh! (I hate this): correct Buddhism is not a religion.
why do I always end up feeling soiled discussing simple truths with you damned mammals?
@#31, Takuan
why do I always end up feeling soiled discussing simple truths with you damned mammals?
Because we leave hair on everything we rub up against?
shudddderrr!
why couldn't you be like normal organisms?
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1597296/hagfish_and_the_disgusting_slime/
Well, while they weren't as animated as one might have hoped ... my nipples personally feel a little less puckered from the implicit social oppression perpetuated by Anglo-Protestant dogma
Let's say 14% less.
To avoid the time-wasting, mentally lazy assumption that anyone who is criticising a numerically small religious group must be a hypocritical Fundamentalist Christian - Full Disclosure: I'm an atheist who believes in none of these fairy tales.
What is being criticised in groups labelled as cults is not their theology but their behaviour. The one has nothing to do with the other. Whether you believe in Little Green Men or Little Blue Men or the Dictatorship of the Proletariat has nothing to do with how the believers behave here on the ground. The belief that it does is one of the central fallacies in Religion's crappy methodology.
Also, it doesn't even matter if the blather used to pull in the rubes has supernatural aspects to it or not: it just has to sound spiffy enough to pull in enough people for long enough that you'll get a decent selection of people who are emotionally vulnerable at the moment so that your brainwashing technology has a good chance with them.
I used to help run a drop-in centre for people recovering from their involvement in dysfunctional, multiple-abuser groups (known to the layman as "cults"): sort of a Cults Anonymous. During the open-mic portion of the meeting newcomers were encouraged to tell the story of their wretched lives within their ex-group. If they didn't give the name of their group, it was inevitable that some other newcomer would stand up and say "Hey, you MUST have been in my old group! That was exactly how things went there and no other group could be as weirdly awful as them. But I don't remember you being there and I thought I knew everyone in it."
"Uh, I was in the Brotherhood of the Cold Flame. What were you in?"
"I was a Multi-Level Marketing salesman for the Sudsy-Wudsy Soap Company."
Different Utopian Religious/Political/Economic Blathers about the Future World to Come but always the precisely identical Hell on Earth.
Nor is the size of the community any indication of whether or not it is mainly populated by homicidal maniacs or great people. Repeat after me: "Weird is not Good; Bland is not Good; Small is not Good; Big is not Good: Good is Good."
Rael's little club isn't going to cause one of the mega-death disasters that the big religions sometimes do -mostly because of their organisational incompetence and Rael's current disinterest in such things -but on several fronts they hit way outside their Evil Weight Class and make the big religions' behaviour look real good.
For example: #24 - ALOWISHUS
No, they knowingly lie to you about what they believe in and what your life will be like after you join. As Xeni's post clearly states, it's just promises of free sex for you. As the organisation's real purpose is to benefit Rael's short term appetites it would be pointless for you to get any of the good stuff unless Rael thought it particularly amusing to watch you going at it. The free sex is just for him: as is clearly stated in their actual beliefs which, after you were completely financially and socially dependant on the Raelians, you'd eventually be informed of .
I'm recommending this link as required reading on the subject of the bra, its history, who in fact invented the device as well as its predecessor the corset, and who actually 'made the rules', contrary to what's stated at #29...
http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventions/a/brassiere.htm
Granted, there was a lot of post-Victorian conservatism among both men and women about 'freeing the twins' in the first 2/3 of the 20th Century, but for the most part, this one's entirely by women, for women, and a matter of choice, comfort, modesty, and aesthetics.
The uninformed notion among recent high-school graduates in the 60's of the bra as symbolic of male oppresion was (pun intended) laced with irony. The bra was in fact a female invention, and the high demand for them led to a tidy profit, on sale of patent, for the female inventor nearly 100 years ago.
File this in the same junk drawer as the 'rule-of-thumb' neo-fem revisionist history.
Hate to agree with Takuan here, but Buddhism isn't a religion. At least, not one in the same way Christianity or Islam are. For a start it's agnostic. Secondly, no actual 'worship' takes place, other than the reverencing of the Buddha, who is simply seen as a great teacher.
I mean, I'm not one, but I do have a soft spot for it. That said, Takuan's assertion that there is a 'correct' Buddhism is total poo.
OK then: incorrect Buddhism can be a religion.
I'm not sure how much faith, you should forgive the expression, I'd put in Wikipedia as the bottom line for definitions these days.
At its core, Buddhism is not a religion. At its core, Buddhist practice is very much about observing reality and being in the moment. Beyond that, folks have run with it in different directions. For some groups, it is a religion, for others, not. It has been around for a good long time. There are sects that are very much religions.
I'm an atheist, but I've a have a soft spot for Buddhism. I've even done the Vipassana course, the ten-day, one hundred hour boot camp of meditation. I was in a very bad way when I took the class, and those ten days were more healing than several years of therapy.
I find meditation a helpful practice, one that would do most people a world of good. But I don't buy into any of reincarnation supernatural stuff. To me that defeats the point, which is to accept and be at peace with reality. Life after death and reincarnation are emotional umbrellas to protect against the fear of death. As living creatures, that fear is hardwired into us. And to me, just being mellow about it, and about the other things in life that make us stressed and fearful are ample rewards for the effort of maintaining a practice. Never mind any happily ever afters or cracks at a second chance.
This is not to say that I meditate often enough or effectively enough that I am anxiety free, but I find myself moving along a path in an ever more peaceful direction. IMO, that rocks. So hey, Buddhism, the kind that isn't religion, gets this atheist's stamp of approval.
Fear is one of the major forces that drives the development of religions: fear of death, fear of loneliness, fear of the unknown. The other major force is power. Organized religion affords some people power over others and the wealth that comes with it. Take any idea, no matter how wonderful, that is compelling enough that a bunch of people sign up for it and then give it a couple of thousand years. Odds are, it is going to develop a lot of ridiculous trappings and arbitrary rules. And, because of that innate fear that we all have, odds are that supernatural superheroes or a magic remedy for death in the form of an afterlife are going to show up, even if that was not part of the original recipe.
Because sometimes, oft times, what you get when you have an established religion, is the result of a couple to several thousand years of people NOT thinking, but simply reacting. Reacting in fear.
Oh, and I seem to remember reading somewhere that on those European beaches where topless bathing for women is permitted, it has fallen out of favor. Most women don't, it turns out, find it comfortable in this day and age. It doesn't make them feel equal, just objectified.
Ah well.
I just wanted to jump in and say how awesome the word "bewbs" is....
Buddhism isn't a religion? I attend a service every week and while it doesn't talk about the afterlife or aliens that live in volcanos or otherwise, how does one get around the reincarnation aspects?
I've read through the Dali Lama's beliefs in this, and he has in the past been able to put it into a more physical world explanation, but this is not what was not taught in the beginning, and more of a recon (I've also heard him speak of it in a very spiritual way as well...which mitigates that).
But all in all I love the hypocracies that go along with religions and the higher orders of them. Buddhists don't believe they are a religion, and will even encourage folks of other religions to join in because "that's how not a traditional religion they are". I know several Quakers (myself included) are at my sangha...and most believe deeply in both sides. The Christians? Consider themselves the one true way...maybe not a religion, but they accept the denotation. The lower you get in the religious food chain, you are a cult or a bunch of wackos.
Me? I hang out with a bunch of wackos with cultlike aspiration. I like it like that.
But the hypocrisy among free thinking people of ranking peoples belief systems is abhorrent. I do it occasionaly, but seeing this, I think I need to make an effort to stop making value judgements, especially against hippie love religions that want to give away free sex and show off their goodies in public.
Sorry, I don't buy the atheist bullshit that places religion on the same footing as cults. There is a difference and the difference makes a difference. Nor do I accept that Buddhism (or for that matter atheism) as practiced by alienated refugees of modernism is really all that different from traditional religion.
Ideology = culture = religion. Cult != culture and therefore != religion.
@Pipenta #40
I wonder how much of that has to do with people taking pictures and posting them on voyeurism websites.
Joke of the week: News reports in Italy have indicated that the intense obsession with the $200,000,000 jackpot was a cocern for the Catholic church. They were "concerned" that their flock may be too influenced by greed. The church issued this statement, I'm assuming, from their castle in Rome. That big one in the middle. Starts with a "V"... It's all one big greedy cult out there, folks. Anyone who says anything different is selling you something.
Well considering 'cult' originally meant (and still does!) 'organized religion' and Catholics still call some of their sects 'cults', I don't see why you think it's bullshit. There are plenty of religions in India people in the US might consider to be cults before they heard how many adherents there were.
Ah, no. 7, thanks for this:
"Once one gets past hating Houellebecq, there's much to love: beneath his misanthropic, pornographic, nihilistic exterior, there lurks a heartbroken hippie."
I could not agree more. However, it is hard to get past the hate as he provokes it so. However, having done so, I found Atomised to be so mesmerising and so close to the truth as I see it that I pretty much stopped reading novels thereafter. Well, with the exception of The Road.
What I've learned from this thread is that a religion is anything that you don't believe in.
@27 @29
People should be free to wear whatever they want, and there shouldn't be one standard for men, and another for women. If men are allowed to go topless, women should also have that right.
I think the idea of requiring a woman to cover her breasts is all of a piece with the age old patronizing idea of "covering", meant to protect honour, virginity, purity, etc., -- usually for the sake either a husband, or a prospective suitor, entertaining the idea of marriage. The bra, in at least some small degree, is an article connected with this practice, whatever uses it might also have.
If you're gonna run a UFO cult this is the way to do it. Why would anyone want to give all their money to a bunch of materialistic Scientologists or self-castrating Heaven's Gate weirdos when they could be giving it to a group that believes in group sex and unharnessed boobies?
I'm not a sociologist or theologist, but as I understand it the academic distinction between religions and cults is that the latter has a living charismatic leader to whom adherents sign over most of their worldly goods and/or personal freedoms. The major world religions aren't cults under this definition (no, popes don't count), and (in my opinion) multiple terms are most useful when they draw distinctions between different concepts. While it is possible for benign cults to exist and religions to perpetuate abuses, the potential for, and historical preponderance of, direct abuse in cults is extremely high.
with modern prosthetics and skilled make-up it should be possible to glue completely realistic bewbs on one's back. That'll keep 'em guessing.
how to do it properly: (Not Suitable for Countries Where People Have No Genitalia)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8zzASS1fkw
Those latex fake-nipple pasties just gave me a great idea for my next pair of speedos.
"and acceptance of the female body as a sacred vehicle for extraterrestrial meat-worship."
I don't see a problem with this.
@Zarniwoop: Buddhism isn't agnostic in the least. Although we do generally like to sound a bit vague about metaphysical matters, there's an actual list of principles concerning 'reality' that one traditionally can't refute and still be buddhist:
1) all composite things are impermanent
2) all emotional entanglements lead to suffering
3) nothing has an independent identity
4) the ultimate character of reality can not be (adequately) expressed in words
I would say that point 3 makes the idea of a beard-in-the-sky-type ultimate creator deity definitely unbuddhist.
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche wrote an excellent book on these 'Four Seals': What Makes You Not a Buddhist.
Buddhism and bewbage, they're my favourite!
I would say that the difference between cults and religions is that a cult's founder/leader/messiah is currently alive and enjoying it, instead of long dead for centuries and rotting. And maybe that cults are more transparent in their real objectives (sex, money, power).
In any case, Tao is The Way. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvHpvHFXU0&feature=fvst
Ah, there's no place like home.
#47 Aloisius
"Well considering 'cult' originally meant (and still does!) 'organized religion' and Catholics still call some of their sects 'cults', I don't see why you think it's bullshit. There are plenty of religions in India people in the US might consider to be cults before they heard how many adherents there were."
Words used to have all kinds of meanings so no, I don't accept archaic meanings. I'm a Pragmatist and for me that means a focus on "a difference that makes a difference." Cult, as the words is used today refers to a small personality cult that is parasitic towards the larger culture. It feeds on it's members, true religions typically do not. This is a difference that makes a difference and therefore, in pragmatist terms, merits the label "cult" to signify it's distinction from "religion".
My pragmatism also informs me that atheism, like religion, is a performative style. I deny that there exists a final absolute frame from which culture can be judged. A claim that atheists sometimes make. I believe they are in error.
Reality itself is a performance. (Just so you know where I'm coming from.)
There was something similar happening in Central Park yesterday. I didn't get close enough to figure out exactly what was going on, but I saw some signs that said something like "Going topless is your right! Go top free in NYC". And there were indeed some topless people milling about. I have no idea if it was a Raleian event or not.
@noen Sorry, I don't buy the atheist bullshit that places religion on the same footing as cults. There is a difference and the difference makes a difference.
I agree, being in the majority cult makes it a lot easier to persecute the minority cults.
why do you all struggle? In the end you're all just ultimately Cthulhu shit.
Word! Ia Ia Cthulhu Phtang, Brother... Ia Ia Cthulhu Phtang..!
Ah, my eyes!
Now, I have to go take a shower.
I'm Princess Unicornia aka Lorien Loveshade. I was there with some of my friends and it was awesome! Not everybody believes in the UFO things. But we all believe it's wrong that men can go topless and women can't. Who decided women's chests are sexy and men's aren't? If you breastfeed your baby or toddler should you blindfold him first?
mdh - I'm not persecuting anyone. Like I said, so know where I'm coming from. If I'm going to end up as Cthulhu shit anyway I might as well add a little spice. ;)
I wonder how long it took for the Jewish Jesus cult to became a full-blown competing heresy? Probably about the time Paul had to discourage the cultists from committing suicide in order to be with Jesus. Unlike many apocalyptic cult leaders he discouraged self-slaughter. Damnit.
Princess Unicornia, you're welcome at my beach any time.
@#44 Noen et al:
A religion is a cult with an army.
Rindan @9:
Malarkey. Raëlians are a lot crazier. You just want to score a point about disliking religion.Okay, so you dislike religion. Big whoop. Lots of people do. Lots of people don't. In both cases, some of those people have interesting things to say about the subject, and rather more of them are bores.
The argument you're making is so shallow it's meaningless. That puts it on the "boring" end of the spectrum.
On the one hand, we have a bunch of organizations that have each spent a millennium or three trying to work out how human beings can live together, do good work, and deal justly with one another. On the other hand, we have an organization that believes in government by geniuses, plus immortality via cloning and memory transfer. Both organizations cherish a number of colorful beliefs which you find irrational. You claim that last characteristic means they're equal.
Spare me. That's like saying Dhalgren and The Fountainhead are the same book because they both have a scene where someone throws a statue down an airshaft.
Whoa, darn, what page of Dhalgren is that? Are you thinking of Bobby Richards in "House of the Ax," who falls down the elevator shaft in the Labrys Apartments? I misremember the statue part....
Photos from topless Raelian protest http://bit.ly/MxcXz
Tdawwg, maybe I'm misremembering, and it wasn't a statue. The point stands.
Thank you for House of the Ax. I've been collecting works in which things fall down airshafts.
How come we're letting jerks turn this discussion into their silly hobbyhorse?
A creed for all seasons should suit some posters
I believe in man, maker of himself and inventor of all science.And in myself, his manifestation, and captain of my psyche; and that I should not suffer anything painful or unpleasant.
And in a vague, evolving deity, the future-begotten child of man;conceived by the spirit of progress, born of emergent variants; who shall kick down the ladder by which he rose and tell history to go to hell.
Who shall some day take off from earth and be jet-propelled into the heavens; and sit exalted above all worlds, man the master almighty.
And I believe in the spirit of progress, who spake by Shaw and the Fabians:and in a modern, administrative, ethical and social organization: in the isolation of saints, the treatment of complexes, joy through health and destruction of the body by cremation[with music while it burns], and then I've had it.
" The Creed of St.Euthansia "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s9SYX7TSJ0&feature=PlayList&p=54AEB7ABF7CDC5C2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=22
ya think?
http://www.doctormacro1.info/Images/Chaney%20Sr.,%20Lon/Chaney%20Sr.,%20Lon%20%28London%20After%20Midnight%29_01.jpg
Just came back from Sandy Hook, NJ where there is a long-time running clothing optional beach. It's one beach area but there are several other "modest" type beaches there too. WHY CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?!!!
HAHA sorry, I just had to.
Sorry, TNH, I'm not being clear: "House of the Ax" is a chapter in Dhalgren, in which that Bobby kid takes his fatal dive whilst Kidd–Kid is cleaning up the Richards' apartment.
For your collection, I'm sure you already have this small-screen gem?
Tdawwg -- You know, I've read that section, but I didn't remember the chapter title. Thirty years can do that to you.
Thank you for the LA Law episode. Were they getting rid of the character?
Oh, that's cool: I've read the book twice, last year and this year, and it's largely a blur. A beautiful, haunting blur, but a blur nonetheless.
I recollect that they were getting rid of the character: I believe her character was about to get married to the gentleman lawyer fellow, but it was on-again, off-again. Dunno what the real-life story is with the actors, production, etc.
I bet Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist has something good for your collection, although I haven't read it in a long time.
A staggering drunk pries open hotel elevator doors looking for the toilet, and tumbles down two floors. A passerby peers over the edge and shouts at him, "Are you all right?"
Drunk shouts back, "Don't flush it! Don't flush it!"
I imagine some local girls joined in with no idea that this was a Raelian sponsored event. If this was a genuine effort, I'd have no problem with it. But it was a shameful publicity stunt by a UFO sex cult, lead by megalomaniac leader Claude Vorilhon, known to his followers as Rael. This protest was no doubt a sleazy publicity ploy to generate attention for his whacked-out cult. How could the city give permission to these nut cases? And no this is not an “only in Venice” happening. The same day, he organized the same thing in nine US cities!
Gotopless, proswastika are Raelian sites that will lead you to his site, which I don’t want to publicize- but there are videos- cringe, filled with his delusions of grandeur.
The following is just a sampling of what I gathered from a quick internet search…
“Regarding the Rael, there are at least 5 serious of sexual abuse cases and various investigations still pending in France. Under claims of harassment from the French government, Rael sought residence in Switzerland in 2007. The authorities refused his application because many of his views are at odds with the Swiss constitution, notably his approach to children and sexuality. RAEL PREACHES A DOCTRINE OF “COMPLETE SEXUAL LIBERTY” AND BELIEVES PARENTS SHOULD SHOW THEIR CHILDREN HOW TO OBTAIN SEXUAL PLEASURE, “which by its nature can lead to sexual deviance with underage children,” the authorities said in a statement. Another reason was his association with the Clonaid human cloning claim; they will clone you for $200,000. Switzerland forbids human cloning. (Sounding familiar? Remember that weirdo dressed in a white robe, claiming to have cloned a baby, Eve whom no one has seen?)
Rael then set his sights on North America and is now living in Canada.
Rael, laughingly contends that the cloning controversy was perhaps a simple stroke of genius to make his movement known. "Even if you want to think that we did all that only for publicity, it is wonderful. If that is the case, we are promotional geniuses," he says. "But if what we say we did is true, we are also scientific geniuses. In any case, we are geniuses. Wonderful. In any case, we win." In an interview earlier this year, he said analysts estimated the media attention was worth nearly $500 million in free publicity.
Until Clonaid was set up in the late 1990s, it was these erotic aspects of Rael’s movement that caused the most controversy. Critics claimed that lonely men were attracted to the group in the hope of getting some orgy action. Rael meanwhile (or ‘His Holiness’ as he preferred to be called), in contradiction to his liberationist philosophy, was said to have told many of his most attractive female followers that they must preserve their sexual favors for the unique enjoyment of the prophets. Of course, this would have redounded to Rael’s advantage, as there’s only one prophet around at the moment – him.”
So girls, if you really want to take your tops off, please do it for yourself and your own ideals! Don’t allow your breasts to be used as a publicity stunt for this lecherous old fart willing to do anything for attention and publicity, or in this case manipulate your innocence in order to bring attention to his “movement”!