The discovery of alien life may be close. How will religion survive it?

[brewer]

What if one of their worship rituals in anal probing?

Then we can offer up Vorlon.

I think he's more of a prober than probie. I could be wrong.

[Catholic_Lady]

There is nothing about alien life that is contradictory to religion. I've always been of the opinion that there probably is life on other planets.

There is nothing in your preferred version of your particular religion that is.

It is not "my preferred version" at all. Nothing in Catholicism says that alien life would be contrary to our faith. I have never even heard of that. If you want to claim otherwise, then please provide official Church documents stating such. 

As for other Christian denominations, I can't speak for them but I can say that I have never heard of any Christian I know say anything against alien life. Not saying those people don't exist, but they are definitely not in the majority. I had never even heard of the notion of Christianity being against aliens until I heard it from atheists on this forum. 

To start this thread and act as though religion is against alien life is a misrepresentation and also very ignorant.

[Pat Mustard]

[Kernel Sohcahtoa]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

There is nothing in your preferred version of your particular religion that is.

It is not "my preferred version" at all. Nothing in Catholicism says that alien life would be contrary to our faith. I have never even heard of that. If you want to claim otherwise, then please provide official Church documents stating such. 

As for other Christian denominations, I can't speak for them but I can say that I have never heard of any Christian I know say anything against alien life. Not saying those people don't exist, but they are definitely not in the majority. I had never even heard of the notion of Christianity being against aliens until I heard it from atheists on this forum. 

To start this thread and act as though religion is against alien life is a misrepresentation and also very ignorant.

Everybody's religion is a collection of those things they choose to believe from the general collection of items owned by that religion.

[Minimalist]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The Big Book of Multiple Choice allows for any and all positions on this matter.

[TubbyTubby]

To start this thread and act as though religion is against alien life is a misrepresentation and also very ignorant.

The article isn't claiming religion is 'against' alien life, whatever that means. It's asking how will the major faiths square a discovery of alien life forms with their holy books.
Stating that there are no scriptures that preclude alien life is one approach. Retrofitting, or finding some new interpretation of some verse that reveals it was prophesied all along is another possible way.
In a thousand years time, faced with the possibility of thousands of discovered intelligent life forms at our local star base none of whom have any concept of the ancient god of the bible, there would still be some loon in the corner waving their book preaching the end is nigh.

[Neo-Scholastic]

[emjay]

Personally I doubt that there's any possible fact, no matter how contradictory with the Bible, that the most entrenched of Christians couldn't find a way to integrate into their beliefs. That's just the nature of the beast. So either by ignoring it, redefining terms, rejecting it/conspiracy theories, or... I can't remember the word for it... it's on the tip of my tongue... adding to the Bible to make it fit... like what has been done in some places to try and consolidate the differing accounts of the tomb and the men/angels in it in the four Gospels... find a hypothetical missing link that technically does not conflict with anything stated but at the same time, ends up saying something none of them said. I can't for the life of me think of the word for it but basically I think the Bible, or any text for that matter, can basically be a core/seed surrounded by layers and layers of mental additions to make it fit with known facts, and I think that's how it survives every onslaught of science for those heavily invested in it. Either that, or making it more 'allegorical'. So personally I'm not holding out for any scientific smoking gun, because no matter how objectively convincing, I know it wouldn't change the minds of the most biased believers.