A hypothetical about religion (it involves aliens)?

Question

I'm an alien from another planet. I come to Earth and am fascinated by religions as I have nothing of the sort on my planet. I don't experience emotions and I'm purely rational. How do I know which religion is the correct one? Wouldn't I be most likely to be atheist or agnostic?

Joel, I don't know that the true god is Jesus. Muslims and Jews don't know that either.

Answer 1

If you're purely rational, you're certainly aware that it's IMPOSSIBLE to "prove the negative" ... to prove that something does NOT exist, just because we don't find it anywhere we might effectively look, short of all-at-once-and-always- everywhere-infinity.

Thus, being fundamentally UNABLE TO DISPROVE existence of infinite supreme being, and in light of its logical possibility, you would have to be agnostic.

Being atheistic is MOST unreasonable, under the circumstances - since this is to BELIEVE that there is no supreme being. Given prohibition against negative proofs ... atheism is, logically, the MOST flimsy of faiths.

Answer 2

First of all God created all Worlds so you should know him better than earthlings since you don't have an established religion. You must commune with him daily. If you a purely rational then you understand E=mc2. Energy doesn't dissipate.Mass is condensed Energy. Energy doesn't need a vehicle to travel and can condense into any form it needs to be.
You would be a higher being since you got here in the first place so I expect you to enlighten us.

Answer 3

Since the alien is rational it would not care especially without any emotion. But if it started to have emotions it would probaly be whichever where the majority of the group of people under a system of beliefs would accept him, or none at all.

Answer 4

you may the two prepare the best judgment of your argument to an all-powerful writer of humanity. How might the variety of sentient being be attentive to that its life isn't created by ability of an outstanding better being? The sequence of such hierarchical super beings might consistent with probability be limitless, and if so, does not this render the seen omnipotence no longer likely? as quickly as we waft into the assumption of infinities, our powers of reasoning are suspect; might this no longer prepare to any point of intelligence even godlike aliens? clever layout could presuppose there's a unmarried all-understanding writer interior the 1st place, a monotheist God in case you like. yet might the variety of God be attentive to the way he began? If this God has consistently existed then why might he entertain a finite universe with finite imperfect souls for companionship? actual an all understanding God may well be previous minutiae like springing up sturdy and evil, loving imperfect beings of his very own introduction, conserving grudges and turning in vengeance. Hypotheses concerning to the anthropic universe, and superior technological alien civilisations production those abound, and to a pair quantity they converge on the classic concept of an extremely superb writer. i think they'll stay perpetually hypotheses, whether arithmetic shows the prospect. a limiteless array of parallel universes is purely too lots for a finite suggestions of any degree of type to take up.

Answer 5

Not neccesarily. You would know enough about the solar system and other planets to see the intelligent design and "signature" on the entire existence of everything. You may not want to embrace the thought of a Creator, but you would have no other choice but to acknowledge an intelligent first cause.

Answer 6

Welcome to earth!

Us human beings search for three basic things: truth, life, and love. We will find that these things are fractions from a whole. Without the whole, we will find that man will never have joy and peace.

Truth is essential to all human beings. Some argue that there is no such thing as truth. They will say that it is a made up word. Then again, we see C.S. Lewis refute this claim in "Mere Christianity" and "The Abolition of Man". We know for example, that human beings are sacred. We know murder is wrong because by human reason, we know what God has instructed in our hearts. Some will say that man invented it, but who would argue from that point of view? To say man invented it is to say we really don't know why killing is wrong, and so, we see many will deny truth and conclude that it is an invention. A smart man would instead search for truth. Man is destined to discover truth. One would not forget a broken glass in his kitchen, but will find out who or what made this happen.

Children had the right idea of monotonously asking "why?" This would make us keep on thinking. The problem with searching truth is that there is error. One will find that along with his equations, he will find he multiplied the numbers incorrectly.

As Fulton Sheen has said, "the more he studies, the less he knows. He finds new avenues of knowledge down which he might travel for a lifetime." The question is, "Why would man search for truth?" Atheists reject this idea because they cannot answer it.

Now, to say it is an invention is absurd. There is no such thing as "new" things. As Fulton Sheen said, "It is just old things happening to new people." How many times would you hear an old person say, "O my goodness! In the old days, we never thought of such a thing as locking our doors or people driving around drunk!" They make it sound like people have never robbed or drank before. People might have done it more frequently, but it is not new. We will never find anything new. We just discover it. Man then needs Truth without error.

Another essential need is life. What corresponds to life is light or hope. An unbeliever, as Sartre said, has no exit, therefore, no hope. Who would argue that we should not have hope? Why would a scientist spend the whole year, day and night, trying to cure AIDS? Every scientist knows that there is such a thing as trial and error. They would not keep on doing it if there were no hope of doing it. However, we will find many scientists who don't believe in a Being that gives hope. One advice I give to atheists is to go to a third world country. After spending a day in that country, he would not conclude that there is no God because people suffer, but there is a God because he knows in his heart that there is hope somewhere. The limitation of life however, is death.

One question that atheists cannot answer is the reason for death. Actually, no scientist can answer a Socratic question since science has limitations, which is another problem with science. If I ask for a line, a scientist cannot give me one, but would rather give me a circle. Both have no beginning or an end. However, a line is not a circle, and a circle is not a line. A scientist can give you the best circle in the universe, but cannot surpass its limitations. The only way for a scientist to give you a line is to add something to the circle that would bend it. The reason of this if the scientist would really have to make that line. Now, why would a scientist do this if there were no such thing as life without darkness?

The last essential need is love. Everyone needs to love and everyone needs to be loved. This is the subject that atheists hate speaking about. If this world is truly "survival of the fittest," why do people love? Love means self-sacrifice. This truly crushes Darwin's theory. The limitation to love is hate. You cannot find one person who has never hated before. There is no person in the world that would not want to be loved. Since a person wants to be loved, he needs to love as well. This is something that a person will definitely desire. He knows that it is something that can "overcome" and nothing can "stop" it. The only bad point to it is that one may abuse it. One can abuse it with sex. He would want pleasure instead of love and this will cause disunity among the couple.

To have joy and peace, we then have to turn to something that has Truth without error, Life without death, and Love without hatred. We would not desire this if it does not exist. There would not be a fraction if there is no whole. Perfect Truth, Life and Love then therefore is one who IS Truth, Life, and Love. This is the definition of God. It is not something we can deny because if we do, there is no hope in finding the perfect essential needs. To say there is no God is to say there is no such thing as perfect Truth, Life, and Love. And who in the world would want to argue from that point of view?

Answer 7

You would probably be an atheist since you base all of your thoughts and ideas on reason alone. I think that is what is most unique about humans is our capability to think rationally yet still feel emotions, and not just operate on instinct alone.

Answer 8

If I were an alien in that position, I would simply join the religion that teaches about the existence of aliens.

Answer 9

Scientology, because if your an alien, you must be related to Tom Cruise. Baby Suri is a baby alein with hair and Katie doesn't say any thing

Answer 10

If you don't experience emotions, then I don't know how you could feel a love for God, or Jesus, or Allah....name it. Nor could you fear the afterlife. Therefore, from a logical standpoint, you would choose to be an agnostic or atheist.