Hypothetical Question for Christians (involving aliens)

[Catholic_Lady]

Just wondering how our resident Christians would respond.

The hypothetical is: Peaceful aliens (i.e. intelligent non-humans from another planet, let's say outside of our solar system) make first contact. After getting to know them, the subject of religion comes up. They have a concept of religion, but none of their religions are compatible with Christianity. On top of this, their species made all the advancements that humans did (e.g. invention of writing, the wheel, agriculture, etc.) millennia before we did.

My question is, how would you react, especially with regard to their intelligence, and that their religions are incompatible with Christianity. Would it make you doubt Christianity, or that humans are "special" and made in God's image?

It would certainly be unsettling. If there is other intelligent life out there I would have expected for God to have reached out to them as well. Not necessarily in the same way He reached out to us, but nonetheless. The fact that He didn't would give me pause for sure. I don't think humans would be more special than these other intelligent beings, assuming they have moral free will and the ability to rationalize and to love like we do. In which case it seems they'd be no different from us, in God's eyes. 

I guess in short my official reaction would be that I would wonder about it and try to think of possible reasons why they wouldn't know about God. Whether that be because God doesn't exist, or for whatever other reason. Though I would find it interesting that they too would have a concept of religion.