(December 26, 2021 at 10:57 pm)Fireball Wrote: Though I must say that if one wants to know how aliens would affect religious people, that they'd be the ones to ask.
I wouldn't bet on it since theologians don't do any research but just go with their feelings.
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"
