# Biblical Message in ALIEN? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2015, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblical-message-in-alien/741520 "2015-12-27T23:48:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2015, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblical-message-in-alien/741520/1 "2015-12-27T23:48:08Z")
The moon which introduces Humanity to Facehuggers and Chestbusters is identified as LV-426. In the King James Version Bible it is written, “And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven.” (Leviticus, 4:26) Ridley Scott and James Cameron telling us something? ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblical-message-in-alien/741520/2 "2015-12-28T01:06:23Z")
Um. Seems like reaching, to me. You can read many things into any work of literature. That doesn’t mean the author intended it. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblical-message-in-alien/741520/3 "2015-12-28T01:48:59Z")
Seems to me the religious message in _Alien_ consisted of: “Oh my fucking God, what the hell is THAT?!?!” ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblical-message-in-alien/741520/4 "2015-12-28T02:24:14Z")
[Have you accepted Jesus into your heart?](http://extrafabulouscomics.com/comic/208/) Because He needs to gestate in a chest cavity. He has a complicated life cycle and, despite being free-living for most of it, is really an obligate parasite. More seriously: There was a lot of sacrificing in the movie, but no atonement or forgiveness. The interpretation is a real reach. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblical-message-in-alien/741520/5 "2015-12-28T05:24:50Z")
Writer (and occasional actor) Dan O’Bannon said that the genesis for the story was partially based on the idea of male fear of oral rape. So, there’s that… ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblical-message-in-alien/741520/6 "2015-12-28T13:24:30Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > The moon which introduces Humanity to Facehuggers and Chestbusters is identified as LV-426. > > In the King James Version Bible it is written, > > “And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and he will be forgiven.” (Leviticus, 4:26) > > Ridley Scott and James Cameron telling us something? If you were to pick, say, a hundred verses at random out of the Bible, I’d guess that at least, oh, twenty or so would have a more meaningful “message”. Why would they put in a coded reference to THIS, of all things?