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what if we get our new telescopes out and discover that the galaxy is full of planets with signs of life in their atmospheres?

would it mean the end of religions ?

>> No.12050944

>>12050941
No, as they can also be justified for in other faiths.
Take for instance:
>https://rationalreligion.co.uk/first-contact-how-the-quran-predicted-alien-life-1400-years-ago

>> No.12050950

>>12050941
You should have understood it by now that literally nothing humanity can do will bring an end to religions.

>> No.12050979

>>12050941
In theory, I don’t think the existence of extraterrestrial life would necessarily contradict anything in the Bible. There isn’t anything in the text about life outside of earth, it only claims to be relevant to humanity living here on earth. I’m sure one could easily enough argue for the case that aliens aren’t relevant to the salvation of humanity. I’m sure they could even say things like “perhaps Jesus visited other planets as well” like in that one Ray Bradbury story.

In practice? Who knows who religions would deal with such a thing. At least with Christianity, they preach all sorts of ideas that are nowhere to be found in the Bible or rely on playing fast and loose with the interpretation of it. This is perhaps me being pedantic, but for example the Bible says absolutely nothing about people going immediately to heaven or hell after dying. There is only a few paragraphs in the entire book about a lake of brimstone and fire, and afaik absolutely none about humans going up to heaven after death. Rather, it states something about two different “resurrections”, where the entire universe will be destroyed and recreated, and those who received salvation will live on “new earth”. It’s actually a good deal more involved than what is usually advertised. But you would never know this if you talked to most modern Christians, because most of them don’t never actually read the Bible, only a few selective excerpts at best.

>> No.12050984

Religion is really off-topic for /sci/, but I think Hindus and Buddhists would be entirely comfortable with extra-terrestrial life, even intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The question would be, can a human be re-incarnated into a Klingon, for example.

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>>12050984

PON FARR?

>> No.12051034

>>12050941
Soon bother. Once we get our gravitation telescopes we will be able to see planets and btfo Christian fags

>> No.12051070

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I don't really think you understand actual religion, just modernized dumped down garbage called 'religion'.

>> No.12051102

>would it mean the end of religions ?
No, why would it?

>> No.12051190

Imagine how btfo pseud pop-atheists would be if advanced aliens came down, heard about Catholicism, and were super into it and coverted en masse.

>> No.12051269

Religion changes all the time to accommodate changes in society. They'd have no trouble coming up with an excuse for life on other planets.

>> No.12051534

>>12050941
I'm Mormon, our scriptures have "Many worlds have I created, worlds without end"
Suits us just fine.

>> No.12051559

>>12050941
New solution to the fermi paradox
All intelligent life is just awaiting the launch of their equivalent of the James Webb telescope. But they all keep getting delayed. Thus they never find each other.

JWST is the great filter. Most never pass it.

>> No.12051569

Religion is necessary to the control of the masses. The earlier you understand that the better you are.