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The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?

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The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?
Gawdzilla Sama Offline
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RE: The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?
April 29, 2017 at 6:45 am
Face it, folks, the religious have denied the entire 20th C. A little thing like alien life won't bother them.
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RE: The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?
April 29, 2017 at 8:05 am
Klingons have Klingon Jesus. Klingon Jesus turns YOUR other cheek and cripples the healers.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?
April 29, 2017 at 8:12 am
Exactly. They would laugh at biblical jesus, what a loser.
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RE: The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?
April 29, 2017 at 8:29 am
I have absolutely no idea. They've survived everything else, so I am sure they can survive this.
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RE: The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?
April 29, 2017 at 8:38 am (This post was last modified: April 29, 2017 at 8:40 am by Anomalocaris.)
(April 26, 2017 at 8:55 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(April 26, 2017 at 8:16 am)Little lunch Wrote: If the aliens are more advanced, then their religion will take over ours.

The more advanced they are the less likely they'll be to have any religion.

Perhaps, but the more advanced they are, the more they can weigh up and implement the option of exploiting our backward tendency towards religion to manipulate and control us cost effectively.
(April 29, 2017 at 8:29 am)Isis Wrote: I have absolutely no idea. They've survived everything else, so I am sure they can survive this.

Of course, You most assuredly will survive everything before encountering the thing that kills you.
(April 29, 2017 at 8:05 am)Alex K Wrote: Klingons have Klingon Jesus. Klingon Jesus turns YOUR other cheek and cripples the healers.

Klingon will kill the resurrected Jesus for good to teach him his place.
(April 29, 2017 at 6:45 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Face it, folks, the religious have denied the entire 20th C. A little thing like alien life won't bother them.

Unless alien life kills those who would propogate religion.
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RE: The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?
April 29, 2017 at 9:28 am
(April 29, 2017 at 8:38 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(April 26, 2017 at 8:55 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: The more advanced they are the less likely they'll be to have any religion.

Perhaps, but the more advanced they are, the more they can weigh up and implement the option of exploiting our backward tendency towards religion to manipulate and control us cost effectively.
(April 29, 2017 at 8:29 am)Isis Wrote: I have absolutely no idea. They've survived everything else, so I am sure they can survive this.

Of course, You most assuredly will survive everything before encountering the thing that kills you.
(April 29, 2017 at 8:05 am)Alex K Wrote: Klingons have Klingon Jesus. Klingon Jesus turns YOUR other cheek and cripples the healers.

Klingon will kill the resurrected Jesus for good to teach him his place.
(April 29, 2017 at 6:45 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Face it, folks, the religious have denied the entire 20th C. A little thing like alien life won't bother them.

Unless alien life kills those who would propogate religion.

Okay, but there might be a down side as well.
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RE: The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?
April 29, 2017 at 10:43 am
(April 29, 2017 at 8:29 am)Isis Wrote: I have absolutely no idea. They've survived everything else, so I am sure they can survive this.


So basically you're saying that the religious are like cockroaches, mosquitoes and rats - likely to survive us and anything we can do to the planet.
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RE: The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?
April 29, 2017 at 10:45 am
(April 29, 2017 at 10:43 am)Whateverist Wrote:
(April 29, 2017 at 8:29 am)Isis Wrote: I have absolutely no idea. They've survived everything else, so I am sure they can survive this.


So basically you're saying that the religious are like cockroaches, mosquitoes and rats - likely to survive us and anything we can do to the planet.

Cockroaches have lodged a formal complaint against you for that comment.
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RE: The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?
April 29, 2017 at 10:47 am
I intended no disrespect, but I certainly see how they could have taken it that way.
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RE: The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?
April 29, 2017 at 11:59 am
If god was real he wouldn't need middle men to explain his wants or do his bidding.
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