(May 28, 2018 at 7:03 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: 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?
Which Christianity? I think those kind of aliens are much more in threat from other Christians who see them as "wrong Christians" than atheists.
Not to mention that Christianity is impossible on other worlds if you believe the Bible (but I guess most Christians don't) because Bible says Jesus died only once Hebrews 10:10 and it is truly far fetched that aliens would believe that some guy on another planet and another galaxy died for their sins.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
