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Originally Posted by guzzy
Just imagine the meltdowns we are going to have when the aliens arrive and tell us the truth about religion and God.
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And what is that truth? That God doesn't exist? Prove it. You can't. Just like they can't prove God does exist. I don't see any meltdowns, I see many embracing their faith that much more and seeing this as a sign of God's greatness and mystery.
This is not a question of intelligence or reason, this is a question of faith and belief. You can't reason someone away from their faith in something. Faith only changes over time and after exposure to new and different perspectives on issues, allowing the individual to find the inconsistencies in narratives themselves. If you try to reason with someone in regards to their faith, it just forces that person to dig in that much harder in defense of their faith. Faith is only abandoned from internal pressures created to the individual's beliefs, morals, and values by the individual themselves. External stimuli like aliens landing may drive some to question certain beliefs, but it may also drive them deeper towards their faith as their faith allows them to manage and have answers for the unknown.
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You know they are already laughing at us.
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You mean like we laugh at our pets? An advanced life form is very much unlikely to laugh at us out of anything but wonder or amusement, just as we do when we observe other life forms in our biome. And the reason we laugh at these "lower" life forms as we observe them? Because we anthropomorphize their behaviors so they are relatable to our reality. We project our behaviors on them, see similarities, then laugh because they are incongruent with our norms of behavior. So it is highly unlikely that an alien life form observing us is laughing at us for our belief structures or religious standards. It is very likely the only time they laugh at us, if they laugh at all, is when they see us perform something similar to their cultural paradigm, but at a ridiculously incongruent way.
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Religious types are gonna lose it.
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I doubt it. They will double down and claim the contact to be a miracle and a display of God's wonder or power. Again, the faith is unlikely to be immediately shaken, it will actually force the most faithful to retreat to where their strength is, and that is faith itself.