Spielberg’s Disclosure Day and the Flaw of Localized Gods

Authored by Dr. Ayo Olufade

Please stop calling them “God!”

With Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day released in theaters, many people are projecting their anxieties onto ancient myths like the Anunnaki. The massive buzz around the movie shows how obsessed we are with the idea of a cover-up, but calling these rumored entities “God” completely misses the mark. Interestingly, the film itself reportedly tackles this exact crisis of faith, asking whether discovering a neighbor in the cosmos destroys or affirms our relationship with the Divine.

Think about Exodus 20. The Commandment explicitly warns against making or worshipping anything “in heaven above, on the Earth, or in the sea,” highlighting that these beings are created, not divine. If these entities exist, they could simply be another variety of created being, perhaps vastly intelligent and technologically advanced, but they are not God. We are just confusing our psychological awe of advanced innovation with divinity. We have always done so. Simply, look at history.

To see how flawed the “God” label is, we only need to look at our own potential. Imagine a unified human race 1,000 years in the future. If we traveled to a less-developed planet, our technology would look like absolute magic to its inhabitants. They might bow down and call us gods, but we wouldn’t be. We would be humans with a massive head start, inspiring hope for our ongoing growth.

The real question is ethical, and it’s the film’s core conflict: when a radical new truth comes to light, how does humanity react? Do we act out of fear, colonization, and exploitation, the classic tendencies of “bad humanity,” or do we find a higher morality? Recognizing our shared responsibility can inspire hope and a sense of moral duty as we face new truths, empowering the audience to shape our future in moral terms.

Let’s reconsider calling these entities “God” and instead focus on understanding them through a rational lens to foster clearer thinking. Current astronomical estimates suggest there are actually closer to two trillion galaxies in the observable universe. By looking at the staggering, near-infinite scale of the cosmos, we put things into perspective. In a universe that massive, the idea that a single group of localized extraterrestrials is the “creators of all things” is not thinking broadly. Finding a powerful neighbor in the cosmos doesn’t mean you’ve found the Creator of existence.

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Watch the “Disclosure Day” trailer: https://youtu.be/sH5GLAq6tuM?si=eC3JnPolnnbRv8AA to get a baseline understanding of how one media perspective frames the global chaos and ethical tension surrounding humanity’s realization that we are not alone.