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M.  King's avatar

Fundamentalists (whether Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant) will have a collective nervous collapse. Members of the ancient Churches have no excuse as this was discussed by the Fathers who never came to a consensus. Catholic thinkers were writing about the possibility of life elsewhere in the 19th c. Giordano Bruno was NOT burned for suggesting that other worlds were inhabited, but rather for denying the Trinity, Incarnation, and Real Presence. I can't speak for Jews or Muslims, but I do know that Hindus and Buddhists presume a multitude of worlds and universes. If some Catholic theologians and CS Lewis were correct, belief in the Incarnation means we must assume that we are the lowest, meanest, and most needy of created intelligences. After all, God always goes for the loosers.

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Hilary White's avatar

When we were kids (or, I guess when I was a kid and you were an infant) would we ever have thought that credible government-related sources would say out loud that there are extra-terrestrial non-human "intelligences" building space craft, and the terrestrial governments have them in their possession, and it would elicit absolutely no public response whatever? I mean, is this in the news cycle? At all? Why isn't the whole world freaking out about this? Remember when Stargate was all, "We can't reveal this to the public bcs it would cause mass panic all over the world..." Did we ever think it would actually cause nothing more than mass shrugging?

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