RE: The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?
April 29, 2017 at 9:28 am
(April 29, 2017 at 8:38 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(April 26, 2017 at 8:55 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: The more advanced they are the less likely they'll be to have any religion.
Perhaps, but the more advanced they are, the more they can weigh up and implement the option of exploiting our backward tendency towards religion to manipulate and control us cost effectively.
(April 29, 2017 at 8:29 am)Isis Wrote: I have absolutely no idea. They've survived everything else, so I am sure they can survive this.
Of course, You most assuredly will survive everything before encountering the thing that kills you.
(April 29, 2017 at 8:05 am)Alex K Wrote: Klingons have Klingon Jesus. Klingon Jesus turns YOUR other cheek and cripples the healers.
Klingon will kill the resurrected Jesus for good to teach him his place.
(April 29, 2017 at 6:45 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Face it, folks, the religious have denied the entire 20th C. A little thing like alien life won't bother them.
Unless alien life kills those who would propogate religion.
Okay, but there might be a down side as well.