Does the existence of aliens change your belief in God and/or your religion?

[George Manuel Oliveira]

It doesn't change my belief in God. (I'm not associated with any particular religion.)

In My opinion, the inevitability of aliens shows Me that My Source Creator is not limited to ancient religious dogma, and Oh My God is limitless in His ability to create life and preserve life, so that we can make contact with other intelligent, sentient beings that can reach us what would take millions of years for us to learn on our own. Oh My God can create seeds in places that seem uninhabitable to a primitive race called humans.

Oh My God has put life in the cosmos so that we can explore when we mature enough to become a peaceful and benevolent species, and we will also become extraterrestrial life in the cosmos.

Life in the cosmos is not limited by our infant understanding of science.

~PEACE~

 

[George Manuel Oliveira]

What if they were atheist homosexual aliens? America would be in an uproar!

What if aliens don't have "beliefs" as we know them, but they only know facts?

~PEACE~

 

[George Manuel Oliveira]

The existence of aliens has no effect on the existence of God or the legitimacy of religion. One issue is made up by humans and the other issue is a strong possibility with no current evidence (Aliens that is).

I humbly disagree.

I believe that there is plenty of evidence and even proof of extraterrestrial beings, but that is esoteric secrets that only certain privvy people know about.

Also, I would imagine that a race that is millions of years more advanced than us primitive humans would have a superior religion, spirituality, beliefs, or a reality of knowledge that we haven't even fathomed yet.

Maybe the aliens want to convert us to their superior beliefs or knowledge about demonstrable facts?

Maybe ETs don't believe in human religions, and maybe aliens could debunk a lot of the fallacious mythologies?

~PEACE~

 

[Maya Kaath]

Does the existence of aliens change your belief in God and/or your religion?

LOL. I've actually blogged about this. The Baha'i scriptures address this directly:

“The learned men, that have fixed at several thousand years the life of this earth, have failed, throughout the long period of their observation, to consider either the number or the age of the other planets. Consider, moreover, the manifold divergencies that have resulted from the theories propounded by these men. Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.” -- Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh.

I'm a child of Star Trek and Ray Bradbury and encountered this passage of scripture (written in the 19th century) when I was 19. Up until that point I wasn't really sure what to think about alien life—except that I wished it were there. Since then I've become a science fiction writer by trade and I often write first contact stories.

Here's my take on it from the Baha'i perspective: we will one day meet people from other planets and they will be just as human as we are. What makes us human is not the shape of our bodies or the planet of our birth, but the rational soul and the capacities it possesses. So, far from changing my belief, every step we come closer to meeting people from other worlds merely confirms my beliefs and affirms my faith. I get positively giddy when I hear that astronomers have found a new earth-like planet. And I say: "O God, increase my astonishment at thee!" (The Imam Ali)