The Bird Venusians

When he came out of school the next day his helmet was covered with bird guano — it was then that he knew it was imperative that he find the place with no birds. The aliens were using them somehow as a part of their plan to end life on Earth. What was in the guano?

The lie never lasted long in his mind, never fooled those he told the story to. Never succeeded in allowing him to feel better about being a clone. At times he’d pontificate to friends his theory:

Did the devil win and were we alone? He’d tell them of the transfer of data back to an antenna on Venus, data transferred while we slept. He’d get up early to spy the planet and watch the horizon, and in doing so fell deeper into its trance. He’d tell people not to sleep, and speak of a battle long ago as Venus became hotter and Hell took over the world. The good spirited Venusians cloned themselves in their own image and planned to populate Earth, you see they had no three-dimensional sense of form or feel. Earth required body suits, into them were injected souls, but alas, that was not how people became to be cloned.
Initially, the devil cloned them to seek out good in the universe on a ship that the good Venusians themselves had created in goodness. The cloning idea was never supposed to happen, but when evil won, cloning moved along. When the clones found good, the devil destroyed it.
After the battle and the initial cloning the original pure Venusians saw that their only chance of survival was to inject their souls into some of the clones where they would inhabit Earth and await a second battle. The devil and God were warring; the human heart became the battleground.
The Venusians did not foresee the mating with the apes that would make man a combination of Venusians, clones, apes. DNA was mixed and began to inhabit the Earth. As the mother ship approached Earth, captains in command ordered the release of clones. Mutiny, calamity, things not written down, stories in the Bible approximating things unknown or too horrible to tell. Some Priests said to comfort the survivors, some initially wanted the truth. After the meteor struck Earth a thousand years later, there weren’t any left who knew the truth. Those on the side of evil took over God’s I.D., used it to become god themselves, replaced God on Earth with lesser clones of evil.