RE: Would theists become atheists if we found lifeform
May 24, 2013 at 10:37 pm
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2013 at 10:43 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(May 24, 2013 at 6:27 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(May 24, 2013 at 6:21 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: The question is this. If Klingons were real, would they need their own Klingon version of Christ to atone specifically for them or would we expect them to recognize a human savior?
No more than we need a "christ". Do we even expect human beings to recognize such a "savior"?
What astonishing presumption it is to think any aliens that is the product of an entirely different biochemical, environmental, ecological, behavioral, psychological and social logical evolutionary path would happen to share the particular discreditable monkey instinct of lesser hominids to feel guilty for what they didn't do, to crave sky daddy to assure themselves, and to think there is anything in themselves besides their objective material self to be "saved"?
In all likelihood, any intelligent alien will share with us only intelligence and a attendant capacity for using what we mght call science to improve their objective environment. That's it. If they appear to share any other of our prouder or less discreditable traits, it would be by sheer coincidence and for no doubt totally different underlying reasons.
