How would religions react to a direct message/encounter with aliens?

[ScienceRocks]

How would religions react to a direct message/encounter with aliens?
So let's just say that an alien spaceship came down and visited Earth. The event was broadcasted all over the media. The aliens were friendly and had about 24th century Technology. They offered to give us their space travel technology in exchange for all the information we know about everything. How would religions react to such an encounter? Would the pope give up?

 

[Penelope]

Good question, did they come from Heaven?

 

[MrShangles]

Good question, did they come from Heaven?

Maybe all the stories in history, where it says the gods came down from the heavens, maybe they were aliens and not gods.
What do y'all think?


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[Penelope]

Good question, did they come from Heaven?

Maybe all the stories in history, where it says the gods came down from the heavens, maybe they were aliens and not gods.
What do y'all think?


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I think you are probably right. Gods = Aliens.

 

[HaShev]

Wouldn't affect my Jewish religion which describes the most finite source and power of creation being an Essence that even created any other far off species. Furthermore the religion is based on transhumanism aka betterment in our case with guiding laws and recognition of history and human behavior to progress to all we could and should be, therefore nothing would change or shake up that logic and path.
Some other cultures mythologies actually sound like Alien visitations, including Christian accounts. So if the events didn't occur, which we have no reason to believe
they did, they had great imaginations or used to many magic mushrooms or ate wormwood.

 

[miketx]

"They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"Meat. They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."

"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?"

"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."

"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."

"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."

"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."

"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in that sector and they're made out of meat."

"Maybe they're like the orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage."

"Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take long. Do you have any idea what's the life span of meat?"

"Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside."

"Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads, like the weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through."

"No brain?"

"Oh, there's a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat! That's what I've been trying to tell you."

"So ... what does the thinking?"

"You're not understanding, are you? You're refusing to deal with what I'm telling you. The brain does the thinking. The meat."

"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"

"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you beginning to get the picture or do I have to start all over?"

"Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat."

"Thank you. Finally. Yes. They are indeed made out of meat. And they've been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years."

"Omigod. So what does this meat have in mind?"

"First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the Universe, contact other sentiences, swap ideas and information. The usual."

"We're supposed to talk to meat."

"That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio. 'Hello. Anyone out there. Anybody home.' That sort of thing."

"They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?"
"Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat."

"I thought you just told me they used radio."

"They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."

"Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?"

"Officially or unofficially?"

"Both."

"Officially, we are required to contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe, without prejudice, fear or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing."

"I was hoping you would say that."

"It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?"

"I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say? 'Hello, meat. How's it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?"

"Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can't live on them. And being meat, they can only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact."

"So we just pretend there's no one home in the Universe."

"That's it."

"Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you probed? You're sure they won't remember?"

"They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them."

"A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat's dream."

"And we marked the entire sector unoccupied."

"Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?"

"Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotations ago, wants to be friendly again."

"They always come around."

"And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone ..."

 

[HaShev]

How would religions react to a direct message/encounter with aliens?
So let's just say that an alien spaceship came down and visited Earth. The event was broadcasted all over the media. The aliens were friendly and had about 24th century Technology. They offered to give us their space travel technology in exchange for all the information we know about everything. How would religions react to such an encounter? Would the pope give up?

To properly compare, assign the identity of Trump to the aliens, and liberals to religion. LOL!

You mean they'll blame the Aliens on an Atheist Russian plot? *LMAO*

 

[HaShev]

Their androgeny and probes scare the hell out of me, but then I will be rich if they ever become proven to exist, by selling probe resistant rear entry chasity belts
(patent pending).
If not the rear belts would sell well to Altar boys, as long as the church continues to exist.

 

[Penelope]

Their androgeny and probes scare the hell out of me, but then I will be rich if they ever become proven to exist, by selling probe resistant rear entry chasity belts
(patent pending).
If not the rear belts would sell well to Altar boys, as long as the church continues to exist.

Your rabbis like little boys hey, and they love to suck the penis at the time of circumcision. Makes me ill to think they still do sucking circumcision in NY.

 

[tyroneweaver]

How would religions react to a direct message/encounter with aliens?
So let's just say that an alien spaceship came down and visited Earth. The event was broadcasted all over the media. The aliens were friendly and had about 24th century Technology. They offered to give us their space travel technology in exchange for all the information we know about everything. How would religions react to such an encounter? Would the pope give up?

Aliens are a fairy tale, Aliens are fiction,
Anyone can write a story about aliens.
You would have to down right stupid to believe such rubbish. There's no proof for the existing of aliens.
And last of all, When an alien comes down here and sez's, "take me to your leader." I might believe.

oh the irony in this post

 

[HaShev]

How would religions react to a direct message/encounter with aliens?
So let's just say that an alien spaceship came down and visited Earth. The event was broadcasted all over the media. The aliens were friendly and had about 24th century Technology. They offered to give us their space travel technology in exchange for all the information we know about everything. How would religions react to such an encounter? Would the pope give up?

Aliens are a fairy tale, Aliens are fiction,
Anyone can write a story about aliens.
You would have to down right stupid to believe such rubbish. There's no proof for the existing of aliens.
And last of all, When an alien comes down here and sez's, "take me to your leader." I might believe.

oh the irony in this post

I'm glad you are starting to recognize resemblances, emulations, reflections, and comparisons that are usually avoided when people use their double standards or avoidance of the harsh reality.

 

[Moonglow]

Good question, did they come from Heaven?

Maybe all the stories in history, where it says the gods came down from the heavens, maybe they were aliens and not gods.
What do y'all think?


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I think you are probably right. Gods = Aliens.

That is the way the ancient humans reacted when visited..

 

[yiostheoy]

If God(s) inhabit the Heavens then they ARE aliens.

If aliens visit us it would be interesting to know what language they speak and what their names are.

If they speak Aramaic and their names are Elohim and JHVH then everyone but a few million Earthlings are in deep sh!t.

 

[midcan5]

A cynic would answer they'd try to convert them and then ask for a donation. The alien would ask and what would a conversion and donation do. The religious would answer save your soul and help us build bigger and better cathedrals. The alien would ask what a soul was and why they need bigger and better cathedrals. The religious would tell them of paradise and another place full of fire. The alien would ask why. The religious would say for when you die and meet St Peter and are judged for what you've done on earth. The alien would shake their head look to the other alien and whisper, does any of that make sense to you. The religious would ask is all this clear. The alien would say sorry I think I left something on the stove and have to leave asap....

 

[miketx]

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

How would religions react to a direct message/encounter with aliens?
So let's just say that an alien spaceship came down and visited Earth. The event was broadcasted all over the media. The aliens were friendly and had about 24th century Technology. They offered to give us their space travel technology in exchange for all the information we know about everything. How would religions react to such an encounter? Would the pope give up?

Probably say hello and offer donuts, like everyone else. Why would it make a difference to the religious?

 

[foggedinn]

My God is a God of life. The whole universe is full of life. There are things out there that have been playing with lasers, atom bombs and recombinant DNA for a billion years. If the Lord allowed them to come here, we would worship them as gods. We have the Lord's word that we have dominion here. They won't come.

 

[ding]

How would religions react to a direct message/encounter with aliens?
So let's just say that an alien spaceship came down and visited Earth. The event was broadcasted all over the media. The aliens were friendly and had about 24th century Technology. They offered to give us their space travel technology in exchange for all the information we know about everything. How would religions react to such an encounter? Would the pope give up?

Give up what, Matthew?

 

[Mudda]

God is an alien.

 

[ding]

God is an alien.

I believe He believes we are the aliens.


a·li·en
ˈālēən/
adjective

1. 1.
   belonging to a foreign country or nation.