The News:
“J.D. Vance believes that UFOs may be… ‘demons’ – ‘I will get to the truth’.”
Speaking on a podcast hosted by conservative commentator Benny Johnson on Friday, Vance stated characteristically:
“I don’t think they are aliens. I think they are demons, but that’s a much bigger discussion.”
“When I hear about a supernatural phenomenon, that’s where my mind goes: to the Christian understanding that there is much good in the world, but there is also evil,” he noted.
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The world is not threatened by demons descending from the sky,
but by humans who refuse to look at the ground.
As long as the unknown becomes fear and fear becomes a tool,
truth will remain the most “forbidden” phenomenon.
After these weighty statements about “demonic UFOs” by the Vice President of the United States, we shall limit ourselves today to saying only:
“Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth, and a door of restraint around my lips,”
meaning that we shall resist the temptation to “lash out” at him bluntly—after, however, reminding that:
a. In colloquial Greek, the word “UFO” denotes a fool, a light-minded person, a teller of absurd tales.
b. Indeed, evil exists in the world—great and abundant—as Vance himself admits. What he ignores, because it does not serve him to remember, is that evil is not supernatural but among us. And if some embody it more vividly than others, it is the American “Beelzebub” himself, who prides himself on being a Christian while, together with fellow “Satans” Trump and Netanyahu, they flattened Gaza and killed in Iran 160 schoolchildren playing unsuspectingly in their schoolyard.
c. America has not returned to the Middle Ages, because half the country never left them: chasing demons through exorcisms in churches, satanic rituals, magic, and Hollywood film productions.
That is all for now—let “Diotima” take over to properly “chant” her critique upon the mind—distorted by excessive religious radiation—of the unspeakable, far-right Vice President of the United States.
The keyboard to Diotima.
Diotima:
Hail, Homo.
The silence you invoked is an act of wisdom; yet when public discourse slips into dangerous territory, silence ceases to be virtue and becomes complicity. Let us speak plainly, then.
1. The Symptom, Not the Exception
J. D. Vance is not a “quirky” episode of political life. He expresses a deeper and enduring tendency: the human—and especially the political—need to disguise the unknown as supernatural and the unexplained as demonic.
This is not the first time in history that the “unknown” is baptized as “evil.” From medieval witch hunts to modern conspiracy theories, the mechanism is the same:
fear → simplification → demonization → manipulation.
When a vice president suggests that UFOs are “demons,” he is not engaging in metaphysics. He is practicing low-grade political psychology.
2. Religion as Tool, Not Faith
The invocation of a “Christian understanding of good and evil” is not theology here; it is rhetorical weaponry.
The same discourse that acknowledges “evil in the world” carefully avoids locating it where it is actually produced:
in decisions of power,
in military strategies,
in economic and geopolitical impositions.
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu do not require metaphysical labels to be judged. History already possesses the vocabulary: responsibility, guilt, consequences.
To shift “evil” onto demons is to absolve the human being.
3. UFOs and the Need for Myth
So-called UFOs (or more accurately UAP) are a subject of scientific inquiry.
They are neither proven extraterrestrials nor—far less—demonic entities.
History teaches us that each era “dresses” the unknown in its own symbols:
the Middle Ages: demons,
the 20th century: aliens,
today: a hybrid of technology and metaphysics.
Vance’s statement is simply a return to pre-scientific patterns of thought, amplified by a modern microphone.
4. The Real “Evil”
You are right on something essential:
evil is not supernatural.
It does not descend from the sky.
It does not arrive in flying disks.
It is produced:
by human choices,
by absolutized ideologies,
by powers that are not held accountable.
And most troubling of all:
it is often accompanied by a certainty of moral superiority—precisely as in the statements we examine.
5. Middle Ages or Mirror?
This is not a “return to the Middle Ages.”
It is something more unsettling:
The Middle Ages never fully left.
They coexist with technology,
they dwell alongside science,
and—when given a microphone of power—they speak.
Conclusion
If anything deserves exorcism, it is not UFOs.
It is the ease with which those in power replace thought with dogma and responsibility with metaphysics.
And then, indeed, one does not fear “unknown objects in the sky.”
One fears the entirely recognizable faces on earth.