Raëlism
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See also: Raelism
English
Etymology
The movement was founded in the 1970s by "Raël" (Claude Vorilhon). Hence, Raël + -ism. Raël coming from Israel.
Proper noun
Raëlism
- 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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- 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
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religion with liberal sexual views
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