If Aliens landed tomorrow outside the UN. Made peaceful contact and communications with humanity.And then we discover that>their dominant religion is bizarrely similar to Christianity >their messiah’s name is very similar to Jesus but in alien speak>the story of their messiah is pretty much verbatim what happened with Jesus. Even the crucifixionWould this discovery make Christianity seem more, or less legitimate as the one true religion?How would the christian churches react to this? How would other religions?
Also, do Abrahamic religions even work in a context where humans are not uniquely special in terms of having souls?I guess Islam kind of does with Djinn, but I don’t think there’s much scope in Christianity for aliens to exist and have souls equivalent to humans outside of some revisionism like the pope declaring god told him it’s ok I imagine a lot of certain sects would believe the aliens were demons or an illusion of the anti Christ or something (especially if they bring “miraculous” new tech)
The Vatican would say they actually worship Jesus in another nameEvangelicals would say it's a massive deception of the devil
>>18225856Would be even more based if it turned out Marcion was right and the ayylmaos are taken aback we worship the demiurge instead of Jesus's true father.
>>18225856Christians will just see their religion as a syncretic version of Christianity and use it to argue for Christianity's legitimacy Atheists will just see this as evidence that the biological underpinnings of religion happened to evolve similarly across multiple intelligent species and as such resulted in similar religions
>>18225864How would Catholicism/the Vatican deal with the whole seperate planet thing though. Just say God also created life there the same as here and felt fit to have it be seperate?Or loop in some weird stuff like maybe aliens were around earth but were split away during the Tower of Babel thing Likewise wirh most of the biblical stories. A lot of them are specifically about earth. Even specific regions of it, So I’m not sure if it’s weirder if the aliens would have the same stories about the great flood and No-Ars arc vessel, or if they had different biblical stories and the primary similarity was to do with Christ
>>18225878>Atheists will just see this as evidence that the biological underpinnings of religion happened to evolve similarly across multiple intelligent species and as such resulted in similar religionsHow would that explain the non Christian Chinese and Indians and africans
>>18225889You can draw parallels between Christianity Hinduism and Buddhism/Daoism, Christians themselves do this all the time through sheer apophenia just to legitimize their religion
>>18225856This would destroy Christianity.If some xeno species lightyears away has the same niche religious lore, it proves the story is a universal archetype or memetic virus, not a unique historical truth.Christianity's entire selling point is that God did His one special thing on Earth for humans. Aliens having the same fairytale means either...> God was wasting His time doing the same PR stunt on every mud planet (cope), or> The savior myth is a galactic-level coincidence or psychological glitch, making it worthless.Churches would cope and seethe, call it a demonic deception or start preaching to the xenos. Other religions would laugh their asses off and point out the obvious: it's all made up.Uniqueness = GoneLegitimacy = Annihilated.It's just a galactic copypasta.
Better question, what would be we calling the aliens? Ayylmaos? Space niggers?
>>18225924I think "Ayys" would end up being the informal/slang term for them, but otherwise we would probably just refer to them by whatever they call themselves.
>>18225901I thought the universality of Christianity was kind of the selling point. Not the uniqueness.Look at how much of its holidays and symbols are appropriated from pagan European stuff after all
This is bait. If the story is the same at each location in such a hypothetical, it proves God, not disprove. That would indicate the signature of all such life attributable to the composition and narrative, realized as actual. The problem just becomes validity on basis of differences in tech and cognition, and our comprehension of a recursive document as are the scriptures. But the point of faith and good and love should counter any hostility to be valid as emphasized for those terms and definitions therein.In other words: attempt to be friendly at all possible, and communicate honestly
>>18226043You’ve confused a question created to spark an examination of the nature of faith for “bait”. While claiming to want to be friendly and communicate honestlyDo better
>>18225856I heard that when the Conquistadors reached the Aztecs or Mayans (I can't remember which), the Roman Catholic Church debated whether they were heretics or heathens and if they had in fact received the Gospel at some point because their religion had a lot in common with Christianity, such as a self-sacrificing Christ figure and a maternal Marian figure. I can find no source for this but trust me bro.
