Star Trek’s Prime Directive Is Anti-Catholic because it deprives aliens on other planets of knowing about Jesus
If you take the next generation understanding of the Prime Directive of not interfering with the natural development of a culture, um, then that does potentially come into conflict with the Christian duty to bear witness to Jesus Christ. As Christians, we have a responsibility to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with everybody, and that’s going to apply, you know, presumably to people on other planets, too.
Now, that doesn’t mean you do so immediately. I could see it being reasonable to say, okay, well, this is a pre-warp civilization, so we’re not really going to tell them that we’re aliens until they’re ready for it. But then once they’re ready for that knowledge, then we would want to share the message of Jesus Christ with them as well.
You could even argue that they need the message of Jesus Christ earlier than that. So I do see that although there are elements or versions of the Prime Directive that are reasonable, that there are also versions of the Prime Directive that are going to be in conflict with the Christian duty to evangelize.
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If you take the next generation understanding of the Prime Directive of not interfering with the natural development of a culture, um, then that does potentially come into conflict with the Christian duty to bear witness to Jesus Christ. As Christians, we have a responsibility to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with everybody, and that’s going to apply, you know, presumably to people on other planets, too.
Now, that doesn’t mean you do so immediately. I could see it being reasonable to say, okay, well, this is a pre-warp civilization, so we’re not really going to tell them that we’re aliens until they’re ready for it. But then once they’re ready for that knowledge, then we would want to share the message of Jesus Christ with them as well.
You could even argue that they need the message of Jesus Christ earlier than that. So I do see that although there are elements or versions of the Prime Directive that are reasonable, that there are also versions of the Prime Directive that are going to be in conflict with the Christian duty to evangelize.
https://www.catholic.com/video/is-star-t...i-catholic
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"
