Would extraterrestrial life disprove religion?

Simple question I thought I would pose:

Would an advanced lifeform in another galaxy mean religion is wrong?
Or do you think if it was found the religions on Earth would apply to their planet(s)?

If God sent his only son, why did he send Him here and not to another planet?

Why did Allah choose Muhammad as his prophet on Earth? Would he have prophets elsewhere?

Please try to be sensitive to others religion in this thread. This isn't a question to bash, flame, disprove or make fun of any religion. Please take extra note of that, as I am certain that it will go on with some of the immaturity on here.

Just something I would like to see responses to.

No, I don't believe it would. I believe they would just work their belief system around it in some way, or just flat out ignore any evidence to the contrary altogether.

reply to post by Athin


christianity would not be proven wrong since they conveniently embraced the possibility of alien life several years ago.

(or openly spoke about it)

Simple answer....
Yes.

Why?
Because it's ludicrous. Religions = billions of deaths. Speaks for itself.

Religion Yes, spirituality NO

reply to post by Athin


Would it disprove religion? Aliens are not needed to disprove religion. Religion was created to control other believers with laws and rituals that do not come from God. God loves all of humanity and Jesus the Christ tried to remind us of that. Unfortunately the ego of man has to bastardize the word of God and make it a tool for control and judgement. Religion disproves itself.

Would extraterrestrial life disprove the existance of God? No, I don't believe anything could disprove the existance of God. If there are extraterrestrials out there, I would have to assume that God loves them too. See, God is not in the books written by human beings. God is in the hearts of people who selflessly serve others and do not judge anyone. This was the message Jesus tried to teach.

Originally posted by Athin
Simple question I thought I would pose:

Would an advanced lifeform in another galaxy mean religion is wrong?
Or do you think if it was found the religions on Earth would apply to their planet(s)?

If God sent his only son, why did he send Him here and not to another planet?

Why did Allah choose Muhammad as his prophet on Earth? Would he have prophets elsewhere?

Please try to be sensitive to others religion in this thread. This isn't a question to bash, flame, disprove or make fun of any religion. Please take extra note of that, as I am certain that it will go on with some of the immaturity on here.

Just something I would like to see responses to.

Religion was started by Extraterrestrial life? So..

I love it when Athiests say, I can't wait for proof of ET to be revealed so that religion will be done with and disproved and so that Christians and everyone wiill end their tyranny of bible bashing faith.

The bible has vivid accounts of what I think are ET encounters. Extraterrestrial life would either validate religion more or create a new Caesar world-worship religion to replace it. More gods and more people executed for not believing in these gods. Socrates was one of the ones who tried to make us humanity think out of the box and the powers that be killed him for that, for not honoring the traditional Gods (ETs). And socrates would of course been the first to be wholly accepting of any evidence to support truth of life, intelligent or not outside of earth.

=The whole thing is a Catch-22, a big Catch-22. I'll just stick with the bible and see what happens. I am sure that Allah has prophets elsewhere, Muhammad might be reincarnated on another planet someplace doing the same thing that he did here on earth. Jesus and Buddha perhaps the same.

Yes

2nd

Believers will always believe. If aliens came to Earth the Catholic Church would attempt to convert them. If the aliens announced that there was no such thing as the Galactic Federation of Light and that the Pleiades are just too young to have any planets yet, certain UFO believers would accuse them of lying and being disinfo agents. Believers just keep on believing.

Originally posted by Athin

Simple question I thought I would pose:

Would an advanced lifeform in another galaxy mean religion is wrong?
Or do you think if it was found the religions on Earth would apply to their planet(s)?

Yes and no. This depends on how you specifically view religion.(let's use christianity as an easy refernece for sake of argument)It's already obvious that certain things in this religion must be used to keep people in fear rather than certify the original moral properties they have appeared to portray, things like, you only go to heaven if you except jesus as your savior. To disprove something like this we do not need to look to the sky, so if we discovered intelligent life elsewhere this wouldn't even have to do with it.
And if earth religions applied to other planets i think it would make sense to assume that this would be included in the original scripture.......(although it is possible that it would be ommited for whatever reason)

If God sent his only son, why did he send Him here and not to another planet?

when asking this keep in mind that most here on ATS don't beleive that god sent his only son, this falls under the category of religious fairy tale and is not typically viewed as anywhere near the truth but yet another "story" from the bible.

Why did Allah choose Muhammad as his prophet on Earth? Would he have prophets elsewhere?

well yet again, this could fall under the fairy tale category. To buy into the idea that these stories are true is to sort of ignore alot of modern observation and philosiphy.(in my humble opinion)

Please try to be sensitive to others religion in this thread. This isn't a question to bash, flame, disprove or make fun of any religion. Please take extra note of that, as I am certain that it will go on with some of the immaturity on here. Just something I would like to see responses to.

No ill intent, and i am not trying to bash, flame, or disprove anything(although the context of my response is sort of aimed at disproving the religion of christianity) I use this alternate view point of; "religion is bs" to show how it doesn't make much sense to even ask these questions in relation to the context of other intelligent lifeforms in the universe.(really it does make sense in your case though because you want to know. I on the other hand do not hold any mainstream religious views)

It is just my idea that it doesn't make sense to even think intelligent life elsewhere is even possible if you truly subscribe to a mainstream religion.

Be well. good post

What if aliens possessed a better grasp of communications of true spirituality that they demonstrated how our religions instead used metaphors for the same descriptors just so those religions could survive eons of civilizations, different languages and cultures. For example, the healing "blood of Christ" is the incoming flowing current of time out from the future, spherically passing through the Universe down and inward toward the one infinitely kinetic, infinitesimal singularity (the "underworld" that is all the past).

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The Vatican did...

It's a misconception that to be a religious you have to believe we are the only life in the Universe.
I believe in Aliens, I'm also a Christian.

reply to post by GmoS719


Ditto.

Second.

reply to post by facewhatly


I share typically the same views. I consider myself spiritual but in no way do I follow or believe in religion. Was just curious as to what others think.

Originally posted by tkwasny
What if aliens possessed a better grasp of communications of true spirituality that they demonstrated how our religions instead used metaphors for the same descriptors just so those religions could survive eons of civilizations, different languages and cultures. For example, the healing "blood of Christ" is the incoming flowing current of time out from the future, spherically passing through the Universe down and inward toward the one infinitely kinetic, infinitesimal singularity (the "underworld" that is all the past).

Metaphors are the powerful tools that our culture uses to survive and evolve. Aliens probably do possess a better grasp of communications of true spirituality, but they probably achieved that by using metaphors.

The Alien fibulators must land in their big firey spacecraft and give us humans on earth an extra boost. The King Solomon prophets and the poets and our great scientists are not good enough. Like the grade-school voters who believed that Obama was going to be their saviour and all because they can't grasp the power of metaphor, they can't understant science and logic when it is right in front of them.

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Ahhhhhh...... I see. Forgive me, i assumed that you were religious based on the gramatical arrangement of your post.(nieve on my part:@@ I legit thought you were asking that from a religious standpoint(funny to me but not in a demeaning way)

Good post

It just may add more questions.... I do not agree that these are merely fairy tales for mankind to cope with existence or just stories somebody made up from imagination to scare people.

There are just too many unknown variables when speaking about a past when we just have bits and pieces of, and in some cases no data. Do we take things literally or symbolically, and who and what determines which and when? It's all left to interpretation.

There's something about spirituality or things multidimensional that we don't quite get, and for some odd reason I have always wondered and thought that all the religious leaders, like Jesus, Buddha, Allah were all the same entity, being, or whatever you want to label it for each culture and their interpretation of it.

Now what was done after the knowledge was passed down and written down and placed into each culture's Bible so to speak... well that's another debate.

i mean it adds to the already obvious, that religion is a childish part of humanity.

I'm not religious but I believe in a creator and I also believe in intelligent life other than the earth .the different religions are mans concept of the events and beliefs of that time . Who is to say that god didn't create life everywhere with different beliefs the way we differ here on our little blue planet ?