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Posted: 2020-07-24T18:20:08Z | Updated: 2020-07-24T18:20:08Z Texas Politician Alienates Twitter Users By Suggesting E.T.s Need Religion | HuffPost

Texas Politician Alienates Twitter Users By Suggesting E.T.s Need Religion

GOP State Rep. Jonathan Stickland was mocked after suggesting that aliens would have to accept Jesus Christ as their savior if they wanted to visit heaven.

A Texas state representative alienated many Twitter users Friday with his comments on extraterrestrials.

After The New York Times posted a story about the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force,  Republican Rep. Jonathan Stickland suggested that if ETs exist, they will need extra help if they want to get to heaven.

Stickland described himself as a “Christian conservative liberty-loving Republican ,” but many of his Twitter followers weren’t impressed with the theological implications of his tweet.

One person jokingly offered some sage advice.

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Art And Artists Inspired By Extraterrestrials
Art And Artists Inspired By Extraterrestrials(01 of09)
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Phoenix-based artist Diane Hamlin sculpts busts of alien heads with her partner, Cynthia Crawford. They claim each art piece is designed for a particular "star seed," an alien-human hybrid who supposedly finds out his or her mission on Earth after purchasing the statue. (credit:David Moye)
Art And Artists Inspired By Extraterrestrials(02 of09)
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Cynthia Crawford says these busts represent the blue-skinned Pleiadian people, who she says are exceptionally spiritual and live in peace and unconditional love. She sells the E.T. artworks for up to $200 and claims the busts have healing powers. (credit:David Moye)
Art And Artists Inspired By Extraterrestrials(03 of09)
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Long Beach artist Douglas Taylor specializes in futuristic landscapes and says his pictures are "visions of what I see us being able to do in the future on this planet when we advance to a little more harmonious level than we do now." (credit:David Moye)
Art And Artists Inspired By Extraterrestrials(04 of09)
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Chris Ellsworth is a mixed media artist and UFO investigator who is highly inspired by Zecharia Sitchin, who is famous in the Ufology community for theorizing that extraterrestrials created modern-day humans through genetic engineering. Sitchin died in November, 2010, at the age of 90 and this work, "Farewell, Mr. Sitchin," is a tribute to his theories using rocks, driftwood and beechwood. (credit:David Moye)
Art And Artists Inspired By Extraterrestrials(05 of09)
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Ellsworth's mixed media tribute to Ufologist Zecharia Sitchin has little windows that each depict a moment in ancient Sumerian history involving humans and E.T.s. According to Sitchin, a race of E.T.s known as the Anunnaki combined their DNA with humans in order to create beings capable of mining gold. This part of the work is supposed to give the feeling that below the Earth the aliens are mining for the gold and that they consider humans gold as well. (credit:Chris Ellsworth)
Art And Artists Inspired By Extraterrestrials(06 of09)
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Michelle Ramos, an artist based in La Palma, California, admits her painting entitled "I'm Not Sure. They All Have Mustaches" was just supposed to be funny, but admits many people see it as a political statement about how some aliens are more appreciated than others. (credit:Michelle Ramos)
Art And Artists Inspired By Extraterrestrials(07 of09)
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Eve Featherstone is a San Diego-based artist who channels poems and paintings from a group of alien entities including one she describes as "a female reptoid goddess-like creature." (credit:Courtesy of Eve Featherstone)
Art And Artists Inspired By Extraterrestrials(08 of09)
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Featherstone's art focuses on hexagons in various patterns and is designed to evolve human eyes to see other dimensions and open different neuropaths. She says her work "Hybrid Dodecahedron," demonstrates the interplay between Grey-type aliens and humans and what each race offers to creation. In addition, she says the piece "shows breasts as portals of unconditonal love from the heart chakra radiating love to the the entire cosmic consciousness." (credit:Eve Featherstone)
Art And Artists Inspired By Extraterrestrials(09 of09)
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Dr. Marilyn Brame is a hypnotherapist in Lake Forest, Ca., whose paintings depict E.T.-human hybrids that she claims to have seen while aboard alien spacecraft. She says the kids depicted here are probably second generation hybrids because they have still with oversized heads and very thin necks. She says all of the half-alien children she's seen have extremely luminous very dark brown eyes except for a very few who are cross breeds of other species than earth humans. (credit:Dr. Marilyn Brame)