According to David Icke humans are being manipulated by a group of inter-dimensional beings who can shape shift into reptilian humanoids. These beings feed off of negative human emotions and control mankind through their mastery of technology making biological changes to humans and getting greedy humans to do their bidding to keep tensions and emotions between humans high and negative.
I had given some thought to spending this op-ed on criticizing David Icke and pointing out the techniques he uses to get people to believe this and some of his other theories. But what if he’s right? I’ve witnessed enough weird things in my life that I’m pretty sure that if tomorrow morning the President introduced the world to an alien diplomat I’d just shrug my shoulders and carry on. So why criticize an obviously smart man who in theory could be right when maybe the bigger point is why have humans worshiped reptiles.
On every continent and among every people there exists at least one generation (likely many more) who worshiped reptiles. Large lizards likely inspired tales of flying fire breathing dragons and throughout mans existence the images of snakes have adorned the most holy of buildings the relics. From Adam and Eve to your local tattoo parlor snakes have been at the center of human existence. I bet there are a lot more snake tattoos than there are dog and cat tattoos combined. Even my ex-wife has a tattoo of a snake on her thigh (which should have been a major red flag for me at the time).
So why do humans hold reptiles to such a high regard?
Snakes can be anywhere at anytime. They are very sneaky. It always seems like they are looking at you and they have a cat like attitude. Many reptiles are also highly poisonous and can kill something several times its own size with a single bite. Many are edible, make nice clothing items and some can even be halfway decent pets. Why did the Egyptians worship cats? See the similarities? Yes you can eat and wear cats and yes cats also have mystical properties like their nine lives might indicate.
So clearly the reasons to worship reptiles by simple people are many and those reasons are confirmed by the worship of other species with similar attributes. Just like a cat reptiles are quite aloof and always appear to be plotting some scheme to control the world.
David Icke bases a lot of his theories on ancient writings and images and he bases his Reptilian Overlords theory on a preponderance of evidence collected from civilizations around the globe that show humans worshiping reptiles. This is not proof of anything other than the fact the humans or at least simple humans, tend to turn things that are mysterious to them into symbols of spirituality. Could it be that the simple explanation about the very nature of human beings is to explain mankind’s obsession with reptiles or could it be that there is an inter dimensional group of aliens who can transform themselves into reptilian humanoids and control the emotions of all humans so they can feed on that emotion?
If your answer is the latter I’ll let Red Foreman help you out.