(May 29, 2018 at 2:23 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Yeah. It's the same exact attitude as some religious folks take when they act like nothing could ever convince them that something about their religious beliefs is wrong. A person who genuinely seeks truth wouldn't turn a blind eye to strong evidence that points in a different direction as what they already think is true. I suppose people like that exist in all groups.
But it's not strong evidence.
Think about it, the similarities could only be limited precisely because aliens are not humans living on Earth with a similar evolutionary history. Like for example, the alien version of Jesus wouldn't die on a cross if it had 8 legs. And as I mentioned you'd have to also compare how similar other aspects of the culture were. If the culture was radically different in every other way except for a striking resemblance to christianity then that would be more noteworthy than if the two cultures were quite similar in all other regards.
That's if it's even possible to have an alien christianity. When you look at the issues in more depth it becomes as nonsensical as to trying to figure out what a god could possibly be.
And as I also mentioned, like with convergent evolution you would have to consider the function and role that the religion had within the both human and alien society and it's own history of how it evolved over time. And christianity as a human religion has evolved. The christianity that you practise will be very different from the form practised in the first century. And it's evolving as time goes by. This is why you get so many schisms and why the Pope comes up with new rules or why Mormonism was created and why they had to change their stance on black people.
