How would the society and religions react to an actual alien contact?

nobody knows

>>1647127
It would make the headlines for sure.

If we just met them and didn't garner any science or technology very little would change day to day.

We'd probably chase them off once the fetish porn starts getting broadcast towards their homeworld.

4chan would certainly call them spaceniggers that's for sure

IIRC the Catholic Church said they'd basically be on the level of animals, incapable of sinning since they never fell from grace. So even if they have interstellar technology, they'd still be inferior to the pinnacle of creation, humans.

>>1647127
What mental gymnastics will humans use to save their special snowflake status?

>>1647163
>There's only one race the Universasowan race.

Honestly it depends on whatever their properties are. If they're incomprehensible, most will just rationalize them away as curious anomalies that aren't "really" alive, not like us anyway. If they are by some miracle able to communicate with us, that will be an entirely different ballgame. Most likely we'll look for any parallel, however flimsy, in their cultures (again, assuming they have one) and use it for justification for whatever we personally believe.

a little gasp and a little woah

It's best to assume they'd be humanoid, and that they'd have a similar history to our own.

>>1647127
Depends on the aliens. Seriously, we have no idea how they think, what they look like, what their morals are, etc.
That information is critical before we'd know how humans would react.
It still would be "OMG ALYUMS!", regardless of how they are.

>>1647137
>We'd probably chase them off once the fetish porn starts getting broadcast towards their homeworld.
>We'd probably chase them off once the fetish porn
>We'd probably chase them off
> fetish porn
They probably have even worse fetish porn because at that point they have the technology to do it.
Infact, thats probably a reason why their here
I for one, look forward to our new lewd overlords

>>1647127
Consider that the technological and societal gap between Europe and the Americas was around 1000-2000 years at the start of the colonial era. Maybe 3000. The universe has been around a ludicrous amount of time longer than that, and chances are that any intelligent aliens we encounter will likely have either a ludicrous level of development advantage or will be ludicrously backwards by comparison.

>>1648170
aliened.com when?

>>1647127
>implying they're not already here

>>1648201
Also in any sort of military confrontation where we are being invaded there is pretty much absolutely no hope. Consider what would happen if a modern military fought a military from the Napoleonic wars. It would be a hilariously lopsided "war." I mean, most of the military technology that we give to aliens in movies and games and stuff is within a decade or two of our own tech. Basically their infantry get flashier assault rifles and their aircraft are powered by magic. Oh look they have railguns and killer drones! They have lasers that shoot down missiles! So futuristic! But that's literally all in the prototype phase in the real world, naval railguns are due by 2020, anti-munition lasers are already a thing and combat-ready prototypes have been installed on ships for live fire testing. Killer robot drones are taking a quadcopter and giving it a handgun. Basically,movie aliens aren't all that advanced.

So really, if it comes to a war, we can expect to be utterly creamed, because we will probably be facing an enemy that has millennia of combat experience over us. And if they're anything like us, they will start a war, because they know they'll win.

>>1648237
I don't believe they would start a war, seriously.

>>1648237

if aliens started a war with us for whatever reason, they would just do something like use orbital nukes or genetically made viruses against us, and then colonize our planet without losing a single one of their own

>>1648293
>>1648237

It doesn't make any sense to attack us. Resources on Earth are negligible on cosmic scale. Also, the idea that it's better to kill anyone just in case is stupid when you think about it.

>>1648293
That's literally exactly what I was saying: their technology/tactics will be so advanced as to render any attempt at fighting back absolutely pointless.

>>1648242
Ok fair enough, but they would certainly force us into their sphere of influence or into their empire, or at the very least demand tribute.

>>1648321
>Ok fair enough, but they would certainly force us into their sphere of influence or into their empire, or at the very least demand tribute.

That's possible, which could be a blessing in the long run. Think about the Germanic tribes loosely subjugated by Rome. Over three to four centuries they made an astonishing material progress and by 5th century they were technologically on par with Rome, surpassing it in some aspects.

>>1648311
>It doesn't make any sense to attack us. Resources on Earth are negligible on cosmic scale. Also, the idea that it's better to kill anyone just in case is stupid when you think about it.

Why would aliens think that way?

>>1648311
>Thinks aliens would be reasonable
>Thinks aliens wouldn't do what we would do in their shoes.

>>1648364
>Thinks aliens would be reasonable
>Potentially galaxy spanning race with technology to cross it and are essentially gods
>unreasonable
it would be just slightly more of a hassle to break earth in half than it would, say, mars.
In fact, they would have more incentive to keep us alive because we are a unique biological signature that could guarder some information on how life forms and maybe even provide unique and new chemicals to the aliens.

>>1648338

Considering the vastness of space you cannot be ever certain you've killed anyone. There could be some colonies on the fringes of the universe, some spaceships you failed to find. Even today people are talking about sending robotic missions with frozen seeds and human and animal embryos that could serve as a "backup" if something wrecks Earth. If a civilization enters the space age (which hopefully will be the case with humans in this century), you cannot possibly think about killing them all. Most yes. But the possibility that some viable population survives approaches 1.

Now, since you have attacked them, you have certainly showed yourself to be a threat. The survivors, of whom you do not know, are more than likely to try to rebuild their civilization. And if they do, they are certain to prepare themselves for a threat. They'll be probably armed to teeth, command large fleets (even if robotic due to lack of manpower). You might expect also retaliatory strikes that could very well jeopardize your own civilization in the future.

And now comes yet another variable. By attacking you have revealed yourself to be a threat also to others who are watching. Planet-annihilating weapons that we can imagine have all one thing in common - they make a huge bang that is certain to be heard. And even if somehow a hostile Alien civilization devised a weapon that can sterilize a planet without waking anyone up, you still can't possibly hide that. Human civilization produces a shitton of signals right now that go into every direction. Silencing us cannot escape detection and interest. So now, since you have killed one civilization, you are a threat to everyone else, cause there's big possibility that you'd do it again if given a chance. So how would others react?

>>1647154
I remember they offered to baptize any aliens that show up, but only if they want to.

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Can we fuck it and porn when

>>1648170
Spacefukt.com, I like it

>>1648213
We'd be the blacks in this situation.

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>>1648433
>>1648444
>>1648485
I love how quickly this devolved
How would society and religion react to lewd aliens?

>>1647167
>>1648148
These

In order to find more life you have to thoroughly define what life is. We think no more of a rock than a rock thinks of us, and what is considered "alive" is only our opinion. There is no guarantee that we will be able to comprehend alien life and vise versa. We might be missing senses that enable us to see, hear, touch, etc. them. Ghosts could be aliens living alongside us without knowledge of eachother and vise versa, or maybe they're trying to communicate with us and we just shove two sticks at them. It is endlessly speculative.

If we do happen upon alien life, the majority of people will be highly disappointed to hear about green slime rather than little green men.

>>1648385
>Potentially world-spanning race with technology to cross oceans and are essentially gods
>unreasonable
it would be just slightly more of a hassle to mine gold in the Americas than it would, say, africa.
In fact, they would have more incentive to keep us alive because we are a unique culture that could guarder some information on how societies and maybe even provide unique and new ointments to the Spaniards.

>>1648540
[sic]

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>>1647127
>>1647149

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Most religions would probably implode and slowly lose followers, until they would dwindle away into nothingess.

The story of Jesus Christ and Yawheh the tribal war god very suddenly becomes quite irrelevant and even small in the face of contact with a civilization from another star system.

>>1648523
honestly, sexual reasons would be one of the most likely for them to actually go ahead and land

Conquering our planet generally speaking won't be efficient for empires that can actually travel the stars and study can be performed through drones and would likely be hidden

But to go ahead and fuck us? That requires a good deal of physical contact.

>>1648573

They would lose some believers, but honestly I think that they would also become far more fundamentalist.

>>1648583
I'd say Catholicism would radicalize the least
the sheer inertia of the vatican system would actually work in its advantage in such a case

>>1648540
A couple of reasons why thats wrong.
One, the colonization of america was done by a still primitive culture that was barely ahead of america in terms of philosophy and science.
Aliens would be millennia ahead in terms of technology and philosophy.
Two, the analogy doesnt work in your favor, it would be more like if the Spaniards had the option for a mountain made of gold or america. Africa would have been hard as fuck to colonize and was due to the natives and environment.
Lastly our biological resources isn't just some ointment, its an entire evolutionary line that evolved independently and developed culture.

>>1648597

True, but Proddies and Muslims would probably go apeshit.

>>1648576
Really, I bet they could buy a ton of human fucktoys from Africa at wholesale prices in exchange for rare earth minerals or uranium.

>>1648606
the more radical protestant and muslim denominations would indeed go apeshit
buddhism not being a true religion would be affected the least
I wonder how hinduism would react to it though

>>1648576
this. if they really are far more advanced than us they could terraform a planet the size of jupiter, but having sex with another people from an unknown civilization. who knows how many tentacle boners that will bring

>>1648614
They'd have to develop television or the internet to find out about the aliens.

That should buy us another 50 years before India and Pakistan realize what's going on and nuke each other.

>>1648610
they wouldn't even have to resort to slavery and kidnapping, if they look at least passably humanoid our internet will have informed them there's good number of willing participants

heck could even be the reason they choose to land on our planet specifically, like say their species has an extremely overactive sex drive by galactic standards so finding others to sate their lusts with is hard, however human sex drives are just as extreme as theirs so they're bending whatever rule of non-involvement the galaxy at large has

>>1648630
Not even
Drop by /aco/ or /d/ and go to any xeno thread to see how we wouldn't care if they looked like praying mantises.

>>1648648

>I actually went do /aco/ to check whether it's true
>WTF? I mean REALLY, WTF?

Please blow this planet up, kind Aliens.

>>1648657
600 million years of sexual evolution has left its mark on our species

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>>1648657
For those non believers
>>>/aco/807468

>>1648657
Welcome to 4chan

>>1648668
imagine some super advanced species studying us, looking through our internet and finding porn of something that resembles them way to close to be comfortable

>>1647127
This isn't history. Fuck off

>>1648692

It's humanities though.

>>1648606
>>1648614
Actually Muslims believe that once the global Caliphate is established they are going to conquer the stars via space jihad.

Shit is hilarious.

>>1648784
>space jihad
wtf I love islam now

>>1648789
No don't, traditional Catholicism is superior, much better than muh Wahhabism.

Better aesthetic, literature, theology, philosophy and I hate Arabs.

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>>1648796
But do they have spess jihad?

>>1648808
FOR THE GOD EMPEROR MUHAMMAD

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>>1648576
>>1648630
>>1648686
Funny that you say that.

http://g.e-hentai.org/g/754978/43161c7a0f/

>>1648388

Your coming at it from a human perspective.

Read some sci-fi like Lem or watch Alien (movie starring Ripley). Who is to say that aliens 'think' the way we do or that the aliens encountered are highly intelligent and not parasitic xenomorphs with acid blood and predatory instincts which look for hosts?

>>1647163
We got chocolate

>>1648849
>sadpanda

>>1648808
Butlerian Jihad or Fremen Jihad?

>>1647127
I'm actually interested with hypothetical scenarioes in which Ayys who have long experiences in Space than we do developing a sort of interstellar religion.

Spess is a shitty place after all, and shitty, random bullshit experiences tend to be catalysts in religious thinking.

>>1648808
>>1648821
> MUSLIMS
> NOW IN SPACE!
kekkikus maximus

>>1648573
They would find some way to adapt their dogma, like they always have.

The Catholic Church has already said they'll baptize any aliens we find.

>>1648951
I always assumed that Muslims continuing to survive and interstellar human civilization were mutually exclusive.

>>1648869

Xenomorphs (critters from "Alien") didn't build a civilization and are incapable of space travel on their own. Same goes for Solaris in Lem's novel. It just sits down on its planet and just keeps being weird.

>>1648869
>Who is to say that aliens 'think' the way we do or that the aliens encountered are highly intelligent and not parasitic xenomorphs with acid blood and predatory instincts which look for hosts?

Because such being would most likely be incapable to build civilization. All animal species that display anything resembling intelligence have one thing in common - they have complex social behavior which allows them to develop and share skills. This social interaction also mutes their aggression. Even if they are predatory (like wolves) they don't go for everything that moves. They both calculate risks and are capable of simply ignoring prey if they don't want to eat

On the other hand you have for example a Comodo Dragon. It's living killing machine and they are aggressive as fuck. A grown up specimen can easily kill a human. In many ways they are living equivalent of Xenomorphps. They display intraspecific aggressiveness also and they will happily cannibalize other specimens. But their aggressiveness and physical prowess means that they don't have any form of society. They are too aggressive for that. Therefore they can't advance beyond the set of skills that is hardwired in their brains on the moment they hatch from their eggs.

>>1648985

Most Muslims are very like fundamentalist Protestant, completely unable to be reasoned with. They will be around if we develop space travel, there's no doubt about it.

Judging by how stagnant their society is however, they will contribute shit. They will just sit down on their hands, buy expensive toys designed and built by someone else and continue to think they are the pinnacle of human civilization.

>>1648999
I mean, humans will be incapable of spacefaring until such time as the Mohammedans are dealt with.

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>>1647149
>4chan would certainly call them spaceniggers that's for sure

>>1648903
http://g.e-hentai.org/g/754978/43161c7a0f/
Not sfw obviously

>>1647127
>society

There will be idiots that worship them, like gods, and expect them to solve all their problems. There will also be idiots that view them as a threat, rightly so, as they will change human culture the same way advanced societies change primitive cultures here already. There will also be idiots that STILL won't believe in them and view them as little more than a hoax perpetuated by governments/illuminati/Jews/whitey to take advantage of people.

>religion

Some will view them as "demons", just like morons do already. Some will try to introduce them to their savior Jesus, or their prophet Muhammad, and try to convert them.

>>1648965
This. Pope Benedich XVI said that since Jesus died for "Our sins" that the aliens would be included, since the "Our" means children of God and not techinically humans. He offered to give bapthism and such if they choose to join.

>>1649013

There's no way of dealing with Islam other than genociding like quarter of humanity. Which would put those who would do that far below the level of Muslim fundamentalists.

No, Muslim world will still be around when we start space travel. It will contribute shit but consume large amount of fruits.

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The existence of a sentient alien species would raise so many theological questions among the Abrahamic religions that it is most likely they would dwindle away into non-existence, and most people would abandon them for something more 'relevant'. The Dharmic religions might actually fare better.

Christians would have to contend with many complicated questions, and apologetics would only serve to mask the issue with convoluted and arbitrary responses, further alienating people. Does this mean Jesus had to repeat his sacrifice for these aliens, despite it being dogma that his sacrifice was unique?

The Abrahamic religions would not fare well. I also doubt any government would allow religious proselytizers to get anywhere close to these visitors, and there might follow actual state repression of religious groups.

>>1649130

It depends on where they land. If they happen to land in Pakistan, the very first thing they will see will be a cleric team wanting to convert them.

>>1649130

I can't speak for Christainity, but Judaism at least teaches that revelation is primarily corrective in nature. I could swear that R. Moshe Feinstein said somewhere (although he was half joking) that if there was intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, not only would they have had prophetic contact from God, but that it would be different from what we got, since their brains and bodies are built differently.

Granted, that's just one Rabbi whose influence even in America is hardly controlling, but I think it's reasonably typical of most strands of thought on the matter.

>>1649130
i don't think christians would give up that fast. maybe there'd be some excuses like god creating both aliens and humans in his image to try to convert aliens into christians, or maybe they'd fuck with an alien religion and claim a figure was a reincarnated christ or something

>>1649130
>The Dharmic religions might actually fare better.
Is daoism a dharmic religion? My 2 cents for daoism is that it's more of a philosophy than a religion. Sort of.

And speaking of an abrahamitic space iteration:

http://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/Pilgrims

>Believing themselves to be the elect race, the Pilgrims began to look down toward humanity as being sinful and fallen from grace, and believe that the Pilgrims who deserve to inherit the rest of the universe.

Does the kilrathi know about that?

>The Pilgrims are physiologically similar to human, except with their high affinity toward space travel. Unlike normal humans, the Pilgrim genes are attune to feel the space time continuum, which allows them to navigate through space with an uncanny ability.

This makes them be more of a separate culture than a religion.

The pilgrim in the film is a bro, though.

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>>1649162
Since extra-terrestrials are only a mental exercise now, Christians argue that their existence would not impact their religion in any way. But if First Contact were to actually occur, they would be fucked. You really think any denomination would be able to cope with it?

Suddenly, the message of Jesus the Judean becomes infinitely small and irrelevant: on one hand, you have an extra-terrestrial species that traversed immense distances to arrive, and on the other, you have a book some ~1800 years old. Everything depends on how these extra-terrestrial beings are, and more likely than not, they would not fit into the mold of any religious categorization. What would constitute as 'sin' among them? What if they have religions of their own, either past or present? Would they even be able to comprehend human religious terms? Perhaps they'd scoff at religion.

>>1649169
>maybe there'd be some excuses like god creating both aliens and humans in his image
Well, image of God pretty much "this being is sentient, has reason and all that stuff".
So anyone who's smart enough to create an interstellar civilisation is.

>>1647127
ayy lmao

>>1649201

I don't think you are right. Look at evolution. A scientific fact supported by insane amount of evidence. Yet lots of Muslims and fundamentalist Jews and Christians absolutely refuse to compromise their beliefs and accommodate evolution.

If we ever make contact, they will also refuse to compromise by some form of mental gymnastics.

>>1647154
How do you know they have never fallen away from grace? It's a possibility, sure, but it's equally possible they have fallen.

>>1648237
Why would they start a war?

We don't randomly attack uncontacted Amazonian tribes despite being far more advanced technologically.

>>1649288
We did in the past for resources. What is to say in the future when everything starts to run out we won't forcefully relocate them to mine their soil? And if they dont comply we would bomb them.

Imagine that in a planetary scale now.

>>1649288

Actually we do, on small scale. Armed groups paid off by wealthy landowners and shady companies attack villages, kill some natives and chase off the rest in order to seize their land. The land is then used as farmland, for industrial plants or simply cleared for timber.

It's obviously illegal but the government is so corrupt that they don't give a fuck. And often the guys who pay the bands are the same who should normally enforce the law.

Makes you think.

>>1649301
i think you've watched too much avatar.

by the time we meet aliens we would have found a solution to our resource problem. probably by terraforming and mining non-earth-like planets. also humanism is a thing now. it wasn't in during the colonial period

>>1649354
>also humanism is a thing now.
Yeah, because that has helped in the past century.
> it wasn't in during the colonial period
It's been a thing since the Renaissance.

>>1647127
Depends on the contact. If alien ships just appeared one day over major global cities then there'd be widespread panic. If we just get some kind of long-distance communication it'll be a hot-topic, people will debate and speculate, some folks will insist it's all a hoax. More interesting is what we would do if we somehow detected an extraterrestrial civilization that doesn't seem aware of us.

>>1649327
We assume that the aliens don't have spics.

>>1649418
>don't have spics.
Yes, because people willing to fuck over natives for cash are in such short suply otherwise

>>1649447
Pretty much, actually.

Like, the Sentinalese have been left alone, and that's India.

The presumption being that the benefit is so low, relative to the social stigma of doing so, that the only species that would do it is species that weren't pro-social enough to get into space in the first place.

>>1649354
Not really. A species can have a very small interstellar empire (>10 lightyears wide) and still suffer from resourse shortages du to the fact that the tech needed to reach about 0.25c can be developed quite easely.


The main problem is not metals or minerals, It would be organics. Food. Unless all of humanity grows quite slowly we will run out of farmland when we reach some 40 billion people. And even then stuff like meat that requires a lit of resources to create would run out sooner. Such a problem could be fixed by space hydroponics, but the quick and easy solution would be to move the production of base foods (Grain, soy, beans, rice, etc) to a special agriculturaly focused planet so Earth can focus on the more intensive, harder to preserve for longer periods meat and luxury foods (Cocoa, coffe, spices, etc.)
A particularly ruthless race could forcefully exterminate or enslave a planet for such means.

BTW, this brings another point: How would trade work with the aliens? You cant really use precious metals since they already cn mine asteroids (they have to to be interstellar) and our tech would be worthless to them. The only unique stuff we would have to trade is organics. Food, wood, etc.

I think we would go back to early 16th trade in a way. Stuff like nutmeg, pepper, saffron, coffe, cocoa and such being traded for antimatter, FTL drives and computer parts. Basically we would be the natives trading worthless yellow rocks and very red wood for knifes and glass beads.

>>1649463
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/washington-tribes-stand-with-standing-rock-sioux-against-north-dakota-oil-pipeline/

>>1649463

Didn't they bulldoze some Indian burial grounds just in the last decade in US? They used imminent domain.

>>1649479
>>1649503
Uncontacted natives are a different ballpark than contacted natives, who are essentially the same people as you but with casinos and poor alcohol tolerance.

Uncontacted natives is what we'd be, and those guys are pretty respected these days.

>>1649472

>Implying that aliens could have similar biology to us and find our food edible.

The only tradeable goods are raw resources (some materials might be scarce in different corners of space) and technology.

>>1649524
It could happen. They dont need to be 100% compatible to be able to eat some of our stuff. There are plenty of foods that are deadly unless prepared correctly, and the same could be true to them.

>>1649543
no they wouldn't because they would have completely different cellular and molecular structures. it would probably taste like sand if you are lucky enough not to catch any alien viruses

>>1649561
>alien viruses

Us catching alien diseases (and vice versa) is even less likely. Pathogens are host-specific and them jumping from one earth species to another is already extremely rare.

>>1648808
n-no

>>1649514
>poor alcohol tolerance.

Shouldn't they catch us up by now?

>>1648576
Perhaps the aliens are hedonist who are trying to experience every cardinal pleasure they can and maybe find new way to feel it.
Imagine if hearing was never a thing among them and all of the sudden they find us and try to install it in themselves to listen to all of our music.

>>1647127

modern Christianity = would reinvent their narrative to fit this new revelation theres already groups within the religion that nurture the idea of earth not being unique.

conservative Christianity = would deny the aliens are real, or would label the aliens as demons from satan, and would be anti alien

Islam = same as conservative Christianity. would deny the aliens or label the aliens as demonic

Hindus = wouldn't give a fuck

Buddhists = wouldn't give a fuck

weirdos = a new religion will be born of fucking retards who think the aliens are gods.

>>1648576
Why would they want to fuck us any more than you would want to fuck a horse?

>>1648321

short term they crush us but long term its not so one sided

inferior cultures always fall initially to the more powerful empire, like india for example

however after spending time under the empries influence they gain the empires knowledge, ideas, and eventually become more able to assert themselves, eventually resulting in revolution and rebellion

>>1650355
Do you realize how many people what to fuck horses anon?
Do you realize how many more people would want to fuck horses if they were smart enough to talk, consent, and make pornography?

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>>1650375
Christ, we wanna fuck horses so bad me make up excuses like how they are "half human"

>>1650355
There's much you don't know about humans.

>>1650349
Correct me if i'm wrong but isn't islam more open to sciences and studding it and such
I'm sure there a sects that disagree but for the most part they are pro-science (i think its like they believe they should study science because it is from God)
After all we got a bunch of advancements from them during their golden age

>>1650460

>After all we got a bunch of advancements from them during their golden age

their golden age wasn't the islam that stayed

>>1650491
Yeah i guess to a certain extent

But another thing to add is that from the Muslims i know they are normally working or interested in STEM fields of work

>>1647154
What will they do when they find out God was actually an Alien?

>>1648537
>We might be missing senses that enable us to see, hear, touch, etc. them. Ghosts could be aliens living alongside us without knowledge of eachother and vise versa
classic lovecraft

Ayyliums is demons

Muslims would declare them demons and wage jihad

>>1650649
It would be even better if it turned out they created ours religion as a prank.

>>1648237
More like they will see us likes us see chimpanzee and leave earth alone as conservation park or some shit

>>1647127
Poorly

I think the portrayal in First Contact is close to being accurate.

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>>1648556

>>1647127
probably something like "ayy lmao"

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1356

Most likely this.

>>1649201
I think you underestimate people. Religions might lose members, but first contact wouldn't destroy them by any means.

>>1647127
>alien contact

grow up kid

>>1651844
What's childish in contemplating the impact of such contact.

>>1651844
>discussing the sociopolitical impact of extraterrestrial contact and how it would affect mankind mentally, physically, and spiritually is childish
Come back when your balls finally drop

>>1651844
>says the kiddo who still relies on mommy for phone + internet

>>1650521
Yeah its very stem focused. Most of the Al-Qaeda leadership during 9/11 were engineers

>>1650349
Dissaggre on the Islam one. There were scholars discussing the possibility of other creations, including Ibn Taymiyyah(personal opinions on him aside). The reaction would be hard to determine: Yes,wahabis, backwoods sufis and village mulahs might call them demons, but that reaction would not have to be global for the whole muslim world.

>>1647154
I thought Francis said he'd baptise aliens

>>1647127
It would most probably put everything in a new perspective

>>1649201
>You really think any denomination would be able to cope with it?


Yes, easily.

You can either go the path of "Humans are God's chosen race", or assume that they also had prophetic figures or messiahs such as Christ in their race, even if they aren't as important, and that the same sins apply.

Christianity at least would have no issues adapting.

>>1647163
We wuz kangs

>>1652891
More like "We are God's chosen people to bring his light to the universe".

Basically just like Hebrews.

>>1647127
>Meh, what's on TV.

>implying I wouldn't side with superior xenos

Get fucked meatbags

The idea that a densely populated world like earth could be invaded and occupied is ludicrous.

Even with a high technological advantage, the amount of manpower and equipment needed to mount an attack from light years away and maintaining the needed supply lines is literally an astronomical undertaking that would bring these invaders nothing. We're talking about keeping BILLIONS of humans subjugated with a force of MAYBE millions. Essentially, it's a million humans for every soldier. Tech can only bridge the gap so much.
Going back to supply lines, that would also include necessities of life not available on our world, like the proper breathing conditions.

Think of the irak invasion. Easy as fuck to topple the government, but maintaining a presence turns into a quagmire. We're also assuming full unity on their part, they may have factions that oppose and undermine the occupation.

>>1647127
The Pope apparently doesn't see aliens as some theological issue. He claimed he'd baptize one if they requested it.

>>1653407
Why would an advanced race need us here anyway? If they want the planet by force all they need to do is take a few humans and use them as test subjects to create a super-ebola or something. Then release it on the atmosphee and let us drop like flies.

>>1653414
See >>1649077 . Also keep in mind that, unlike most regular christian thinks, when it is said that God designed us in "His Image" the bible is not talking about appearance, but instead about our minds and souls. As such, sentient aliens would technically also be partially God's own image and creation as per theological tradition. As the Pope said he will gladly accept Aliens in the church if they want. It's a relatively easy thing.

>>1653536
Why would aliens even want earth? The only thing we have that can't be easily mined from other planets is biomolecules like chlorophyll.

>>1653407
They can just drop large pieces of metal on our cities from space and demand we surrender ...

The religeous extreme would at first deny it and claim it as some evil done by satan, the more moderate would simply adapt the aliens into their world view "well we were wrong about stoning kids so we might have been wrong about this as well" sort of school of thought.

This would take decades though.

I'm no theologist so I am just asuming from what I know about religion.

>>1653662
They want our dank weed

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>>1653662 see >>1649472 for a theory on that. >>1654854 is actually very close to it.

>>1654854
>mfw Terra becomes a rich planet selling the dankest weed and richest tobacco to the galaxy

4 20 blaze it universe

>>1649472
>Implying we wont be able to 3d print organs and meat from elemental scrap in the future
>implying we would even need to eat in the far future
http://www.nature.com/news/the-printed-organs-coming-to-a-body-near-you-1.17320

>>1654950
We may not NEED to eat, but I bet my ass there would still be people WANTING to eat. In specia ocasions and such. Especially since it will take a while for that transition to happen.

>>1654977
And the 3d printed food of any flavor you want?

>>1649472
Really, this.

>destroy biodiversity on the planet in favor of more industrial capacity
>when aliens come, biodiversity is the only trade good that matters
>mfw the hippies were right

>>1649265
The trinity wouldn't allow for such a thing. There can only be one redeemer who's fully human and fully God, and one sacrifice on behalf of atoning for humanity's sins.

>>1654985
3d printing will take a while to get 100% faithfull. And even then there are always the hippies and high class people that prefer the natural stuff.

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>>1647137

>>1647127
How does society treat illegal aliens or people of different ethnic background, race or religion.

That should sum it up

>>1656425
Actual Aliens would be something of a completely different magnitude. Illegals are easy to being bullied by politicians, cause they are weak and unlikely to bite back.