"SUFFER NOT THE ALIEN TO LIVE!!"
God is a creator God. Creating is his business.
Mormonism and Scientology would probably love it.
My faith is only tested by female Earthlings.
If God created us...and Jupiter...it’s hard to believe that He’s incapable of creating anything He wants.
Larry Norman already addressed this:
He’s an unidentified flying object
You will see Him in the air
He’s an unidentified flying object
You will drop your hands and stare
You will be afraid to tell your neighbors
They might think that it’s not true
But when they open up the morning papers
They will know they’ve seen Him too
He will come back like He promised
With the price already paid
He will gather up His followers
And take them all away
He’s an unidentified flying object
He will sweep down from the sky
He’s an unidentified flying object
Some will sleep but will not die
He’s an unidentified flying object
Coming back to take you home
He’s an unidentified flying object
He will roll away your stone
And if there’s life on other planets
Then I’m sure that He must know
And He’s been there once already
And has died to save their souls
He’s an unidentified flying object
You will see Him in the air
He’s an unidentified flying object
You will drop your hands and stare
He’s an unidentified flying object
Coming back to take you Home
He’s an unidentifed flying object
He will roll away your stone
Obfuscation, hypocrisy, and mendacity at their finest.
Just read A Wrinkle in Time.
If we were to discover ET’s, it would be compatible with the message of the bible. The bible’s message is for humans dwelling on earth. It is not for dogs, cats, caterpillars or ET’s.
Jesus said he had other sheep (John 10:26).
Most scholars say that’s a reference to the eventual restoration of the ten northern tribes “lost” in the Assyrian exile. The Mormons say those other sheep include the Jews that the LDS church say sailed to the Americas at the time of the Babylonian exile. But, maybe those other sheep include some Seriously Other sheepies...ETs?
no problemo with me...
I’m more worried about it surviving the current pope.
Can it survive the current “Pope” is a more pertinent question.
Life on other worlds is the moving target of proofiness.
In times past it has been asserted that not finding life elsewhere would require disbelief in God.
When it became apparent that life wasn’t literally everywhere, and people still believed in God, folks started insisting that finding life out there would somehow disprove God.
As for me, I’m neither her nor there that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe ... I just wish there was some of it in Washington DC!
Published: 05:39 EST, 4 August 2015 | Updated: 06:47 EST, 4 August 2015
"The discovery of intelligent life does not mean there's another Jesus. The Incarnation of the son of God is a unique event in the history of humanity of the universe."
The Catholic Church has always been on the cutting edge of scientific discovery. It is one of the glories of our religion.
"SUFFER NOT THE ALIEN TO LIVE!!"
Why not? Read Canticle for Leibowitz.
I’ve read science fiction discussions on this very issue. Buddhism and Hinduism would have the least issue with it, in theory, by already according souls to non-human aliens and having room for the non-human life to be sentient and equal to people.
For Christian sects, there are several interpretations:
* It is intelligent, it is a creation of God, but lack souls. We’re better.
* It is intelligent, has souls, God reaches them in a way that works for them.
* They are intelligent, they have souls, God reaches them in a way similar to ours. This theory could be based on the history of prophets in the Bible.
* It in intelligent, has spirituality, and we ignore it and them
* It is unintelligent life, we’re now supreme and like the Dune universe, “this world is your domain” becomes “all these worlds are your domain”.
* They show up, it is the apocalypse. No religious conflict at all, and since they have space travel, no real conflict, either. If anyone is left, they become the new gods.
* They show up, we welcome them as angels/deities. It is likely that all the alien abduction stories where they say “be good” and “don’t go to nuclear war” is a shift of the divine impulse of saints/gods giving guidance to the new scifi model by the secular. Kind of like how artificial intelligence / brain uploads as theory has become a new doctrine of an eternal afterlife with a benevolent AI/God
Karina Fabian is a Catholic science fiction author, and in her novel “Discovery”, the aliens found God as we’d understand it - but no messiah per se.
The Catholic Church can handle anything that is based in truth. That’s all
The Bible doesn't say either way, does it? Nor the early Fathers etc?
Meanwhile, a few warm earth mass planets discovered is not really evidence of life at all, let alone "aliens"
It’s worse than “handle.” The former expert here would likely suggest [i]Exo-Vaticana[/i] for those interested in the facts.