No, unfortunately, it’s not a new video game.
Via Sadly, No!, here is a series of articles called UFOs and the Gospel of Christ, by Ralph C. Barker: Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here.
If you scroll way, way down past the bazillion ads on the Part 1 link, you’ll get to the meat of the article – Seems Barker saw UFOs as a kid:
The only thing I do know is that the objects I saw violated every known law of physics. They flew at very high altitudes and performed almost instant, high speed, ninety-degree turns. Nothing flying, then or now, with the exception of Superman, can do this.
… to which I would simply say that as a kid he might not have been that familiar with every known law of physics. (Who is?)
The interesting thing about this article is that Barker’s point is to attack “New Agers” and/or UFO believers – not necessarily because they are spreading what most folks consider fanciful nonsense, but because
a very strong, obvious, and evil connection does exist between UFOs and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Barker asserts that people who claim to have contacted aliens report that:
The aliens don’t seem to be threatened by Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, or any other ism. They focus their attacks on Christianity. Could this be because Christianity is the only true religion? This would be my bet.
… or is it more likely that Christianity is simply the dominant religious belief here in the USA? After all, if you’re brought up in the Christian tradition and are going to dream that you were abducted by aliens, it’s not likely that the alien races you make up in your head are going to suddenly give you a lecture on Buddhism.
Now the question is who inhabits the UFOs. Are they aliens? Are they extra terrestrials? Are they from our future? Who or what are they?
I bet you want to know what Barker concludes about the aliens in Part 2, don’t you?
DON’T YOU?
In my youth I held to the idea that they were truly alien visitors. Today, I still think they are alien visitors but not visitors from another planet. I am convinced they are visitors from another dimension, a spiritual dimension. I believe they are demons.
[Emphasis mine]
Now color me crazy, but I do not see how this is any less loony than the whole alien abduction thing.
What disturbs me more than the looniness above, though, is a little later on in the article. Barker bemoans the supposed lack of religiosity in the US (which is unsurprising from a fundamentalist):
Most of us are well aware that there has been a shift in worldviews in America since the 1950s. The biblical worldview that established America and sustained it for so long is losing its place in American society. Humanism, paganism, and other isms are taking center stage.
Barker then points out that many alien monster movies “prior to the 1960s” showed aliens as hostile towards humanity, wanting to destroy or conquer the world, and so forth. He complains that
… movies began to change their perspective as humanism began to permeate our society. Aliens began to be portrayed more often as not as good guys.
Given that science fiction is often social commentary about current events, I don’t find it surprising at all that there were more “aliens as good guys” stories in the 60s and continuing afterwards. It seems to me that a big message of many of these movies was that people who are different than us in some way aren’t always that bad. And, frankly, what in the heck is wrong with that idea? I was not aware that racial tolerance – what quite a few of these “good alien” movies are promoting – was un-Christian!