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!atheists How would the Abrahamic faiths cope if it was 100% proven that intelligent alien life is real? :marseythonk:

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Human supremacy + xenophobia (jesus came to humans only) or Mormon style "he actually visited every planet" and the soul will have to be extended to sapience in general. I could also imagine incorporating whatever could be described as a religion amongst aliens as being syncretized with the abrahmics. You can stretch the bibles and Quran to mean whatever you want anyways so it's more how you already feel about aliens

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The catholic church already issued a decree that not only is believing in aliens okay, butt also if aliens do exist they can be baptised and accept the sacrament as well.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-extraterrestrials/vatican-scientist-says-belief-in-god-and-aliens-is-ok-idUKL146364620080514/

https://media.giphy.com/media/p73ysgcGPUhTW/giphy.webp

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There's actually a pretty good scifi book with this premise, The Sparrow, which is about a Jesuit mission to Alpha Centauri.

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Yes! Superb book!

Also touched on by Orson Scott Card in Speaker for the Dead and sequels.

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omg! Easily

Abraham was obedient to God and for this he was pronounced Father of Nations, and He also was permitted to do polygamy PERIODT

!mormons and !coomers and !incels know that polygamy is an eternal and heavenly practice

God has many wives, and He brought one of those wives to Earth to start life here, as he did on other planets

Aliens are like just other of Gods children through a different polygamist wife

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Doesn't seem like a big deal for the faith. Only difficult question is if each planet gets a Jesus or if we have to share.

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They'd probably say something along the lines of "God didn't make them in his image and didn't send his only begotten Son to die so that they may have eternal life, therefore aliens can't sin and are morally equivalent to animals".

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