(I am re-writing this from scratch after I failed to save my draft and made the mistake of closing my iPad momentarily, so apologize if there are typos in this second attempt at a post). I am a former conservative Christian (SDA) who grew up in a rural Oregon town in the 1980s. In my home, aliens, ghosts, monsters, or anything else “imaginary” was seen as a distraction by Satan and demonic. A small illustration: we were gifted a VHS copy of “E.T.” when I was 12 or so and my dad threw it in th...