It's not. Welcome to the wild world of Raëlism, a religion based on the belief that aliens created humanity in order to satisfy their sexual urges, whose controversial symbol — a swastika ...

NETFLIX's new documentary Raël: The Alien Prophet delves into the controversial Raëlism movement and its founder, Claude Vorilhon. But who is he and what is his philosophy? Here's what we know.

Netflix's new documentary Rael The Alien Prophet will tell the story of Claude Vorilhon and his controversial UFO-inspired religion Raëlism. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

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Let’s start in 1992 when a man named Raël was invited on a TV show to talk about the religion he had founded known as Raëlism. Except this wasn’t any ordinary religious movement: it was a ...

Using that set of beliefs, Vorilhon started Raëlism, a movement that has endured for five decades and spread across continents—and which the French parliament, back in 1995, classified as a cult.

After a while, one of us said: Do you know the religion of those people? They follow a new religion called Raëlism. It is a religion which worships extraterrestrials. Raëlism was founded in the ...

Take Claude Vorilhon, for instance. The French "sports-car journalist" changed his name to Raël and in 1974 founded Raëlism, a religion based on his personal encounter with aliens who created ...