2007-07-08 19:43:04 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I think that the science-fiction writer Phillip J. Farmer did a wonderful job in several of his novels on just this theme. Try Night of Light; Inside Outside; the Riverworld series; Lovers; Dare. There's also A Case of Conscience by James Blish.
on my part, i think the world's religions will just reorganize themselves and change some of their dogmas like for example including the aliens in the divine scheme of things and salvation. lol
2007-07-08 19:46:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Anytime an angel or demon is referred to in any religion, they are speaking of what is alien to common life. An angel or demon is an alien, so I don't think religion would be shattered, since it's based on the belief in another world.
Besides, when they speak of the universe being created by God, they usually leave room for the fact that if he made billions of creatures on this planet, then it wouldn't be a stretch to think he could make a few more. The best, the brightest, and the deepest of all the religions make room for more possibilities. Sounds like you're dealing with the run of the mill religious parrot
2007-07-08 20:47:25 · answer #2 · answered by Numen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the intersectionality of religion with aliens is a quite interesting concept. While I am unaware exactly how religions would react, I would believe that they would find some obscure passage in the bible, koran, or other "sacred" text as to say, "God, already knew this, and said it."
Weren't most religions founded by "aliens" anyway? I mean, Christ is said to have walked on water, made water into wine, etc., by definition, he himself would be "alien." If he did have a "second coming," we would only think he was an alien.
2007-07-08 20:24:59 · answer #3 · answered by Think 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More than you and I , these religious leaders have a lot of experience handling the aliens! You know that these various religious heads have been handling God , who is an alien as he is NOT human. We all know how God has been manipulated by these sectorial leaders all these thousands of years.
I have a feeling that these aliens , too, will align with these religious leaders and start to control us. I hope there are no sudivisions already in the alien community!
2007-07-08 20:01:44 · answer #4 · answered by YD 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it would depend on whether or not they had any religion, gods forbid, or whether or not the more credulous among us thought they were gods. Everything and everyone is a god to something or someone else sometimes, just not to me.
Hopefully, if some still insisted on the need for a religion, the aliens would bring a better one than the crap ones we have now.
2007-07-08 19:48:59 · answer #5 · answered by LodiTX 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Earth was once thought to be the center of the Universe. Coprunicus and Galileo disproved this and religion is still here. The microscope showed us that it was germs not demons which make us sick and religion is still here. Darwin spelled out the theory of evolution (theists - theory is one step below fact in the scientific method- see Newton's theory of gravity) which went against the 10,000-6,000 yr timeline and yet religion is still here.
What makes you think aliens would change anything?
2007-07-08 20:22:18 · answer #6 · answered by msuetonius 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont know i think their would be mass chaos at first. And then if the human race still remained, the aliens would take up residence in california and pick our fruit LOL that's what the other aliens did.
2007-07-08 19:53:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion would get put in its place, which is in the past! It served a purpose but now it only creates problems. Aliens would disprove the fundamental ideology that man in the superior being & nothing higher exists. Yes, religion would get shot to hell.
2007-07-08 19:55:57 · answer #8 · answered by suspended2000 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus sacrificed himself for the entire universe, not just us earthlings.
Earth could become the place where all the aliens want to come to visit. Just like people want to go to Israel to visit the place where Jesus walked and lived.
The fact that aliens appear would not change a thing in my opinion.
Unless they are those mean, gun-toting aliens. In that case, run for the hills! OMG there's one right behind you!!
2007-07-08 20:03:33 · answer #9 · answered by semi_genius 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Scientists: The Earth is several billion years old.
Fundamentalist Christians: Nuh uh! The Earth is only 6,000 years old!
Scientists: Dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago, and then man began his evolutionary path from the neanderthal to what he is today.
Fundamentalist Christians: Nuh uh! God made man 6,000 years ago exactly like he is today! And dinosaurs lived in the Garden of Eden along side Adam and Eve!
Fundamentalist Christians never let anything get in their way of ignorance-through-religion, especially science.
2007-07-08 19:52:32 · answer #10 · answered by theREALtruth.com 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋