If Aliens Arrived - Would You Try to Convince Them About God?

[nihilistic]

So ... tell me, Plexus, considering your comments on page one to be honest, how do you distinguish between yourself from an Al Qaeda member if not by birthplace (which leads to differences of religion)? The one word best suited to describe the mentality of a person not in a mental institite who would make the those statements is: imbecilic.

If you are truely interested in the truth and not just wanted to convince your peers of your adherence of a common fantasy, you would ask the aliens for proof instead of warbling around on a bigoted set of BS.

 

[Global Nexus]

Originally posted by Perfection
We probobly would have an interesting chemical structure

Then why land and reveal theirselves when they can just randomly pick out a bunch of people and kidnap them for research without being seen? Unless they're like space-conquistadors or something. Who knows, maybe iron would be a RARE element on their planet or something.

 

[CurtSibling]

Originally posted by nihilistic
So ... tell me, Plexus, considering your comments on page one to be honest, how do you distinguish between yourself from an Al Qaeda member if not by birthplace (which leads to differences of religion)? The one word best suited to describe the mentality of a person not in a mental institite who would make the those statements is: imbecilic.

If you are truely interested in the truth and not just wanted to convince your peers of your adherence of a common fantasy, you would ask the aliens for proof instead of warbling around on a bigoted set of BS.

As I said, perhaps the aliens would merely offer to cure him of his mental illness!

 

[puglover]

Originally posted by CurtSibling
If you were religious, would you try and tell them that your god created them.

Since you claim he created the universe, he must have made them too, right?

What if these aliens were a atheistic scientific race, having long abandoned religion as a childish notion?

Would you still try to pursue your claim, even at the cost of making these aliens angry?

Hypothetical situation, I know.
But I want to see how dedicated some are to the god idea.

And thanks for taking part! [/B]

- Yes
- I'd still tell them
- Yes. But I'd tell them there are also atheists on the planet so they won't blow it up.

 

[LesCanadiens]

I think I would try to teach them that all religious folk are criminals.

 

[Ren]

Originally posted by CurtSibling
Are you sure it is not just a mental illness?

We call it Faith.

Originally posted by Thadlerian
Then I would consider it rather meaningless to tell them about Terran religion.

They came seeking to know about our culture. Since God is such a big part of our culture as a whole, not each person then it would hardly be meaningless. Anyway, who says they're right or even that they're telling the truth?

Originally posted by CurtSibling
We certainly are, but not the most important.

What are you basing this statement on?

Originally posted by CurtSibling
Care to elaborate something other than fantastic claims?

Would you?

 

[Aphex_Twin]

What if the Aliens are a deeply mistical and religious race? (take Babylon V as reference...)

 

[newfangle]

Originally posted by Aphex_Twin
What if the Aliens are a deeply mistical and religious race? (take Babylon V as reference...)

Then they wouldn't have the cranial capacity to travel hundreds of parsecs.

 

[Quasar1011]

Originally posted by newfangle


Then they wouldn't have the cranial capacity to travel hundreds of parsecs.

Wow, a suggestion that aliens would have brains in their stomachs!

 

[Global Nexus]

Originally posted by Quasar1011


Wow, a suggestion that aliens would have brains in their stomachs!

...uhm...I don't mean to be rude or anything but...what does his post have to do with stomachs?

 

[Quasar1011]

It doesn't have anything to do with stomachs. He was implying that mystical or religious people are uneducated. That's laughable.

I was simply allowing for another possibility if he wasn't being rude himself. :rant:

 

[CurtSibling]

Originally posted by Ren
We call it Faith.

I call it ego-mania.

Originally posted by Ren
What are you basing this statement on?

The obvious size of the universe.

Oh wait!
We invented a god, so we may as well invent the idea we rule that universe too!

Originally posted by Ren
Would you?

Religionists are the ones who messed up the world with ideas about god, so you answer first.

 

[Hygro]

Oh yeah the world is real messed up from such an idea that spawned out of basically every culture.

 

[WildWeazel]

Because I believe that God created the universe and everything in in, I would tell them about God. However, if their culture had absolutely no religion or belief in higher powers, then it would seem that God had not bothered to pursue contact with them- but God wants to redeem everyone who is separated from Him (atheistic aliens would obviously fall into that category), so the only conlusion would be that the aliens had no souls, but were only highly advanced animals. In other words- ever heard of a canine Messiah? I think not.

it seems that wherever CurtSibling is found, there also are Quasar1011 and puglover. Almost like a Frodo-and-Sam vs Sauron, given Curt's atheistic nature. Hey guys, I'm with you all the way

 

[CurtSibling]

Originally posted by WWWeasel
it seems that wherever CurtSibling is found, there also are Quasar1011 and puglover. Almost like a Frodo-and-Sam vs Sauron, given Curt's atheistic nature. Hey guys, I'm with you all the way

It's more like Rommel versus the marx brothers.

 

[CurtSibling]

Originally posted by Hygro
Oh yeah the world is real messed up from such an idea that spawned out of basically every culture.

So you deny the crusades, burning times, inquisition, destroying the Great Library, the wars of Islam, even the current conflicts in the Middle East are not 'messed up'...

If so, you have a long way to travel.

 

[Quasar1011]

Originally posted by CurtSibling


It's more like Rommel versus the marx brothers.

Can I be Groucho? I have the fake nose and mustache!

 

[CurtSibling]

Originally posted by Quasar1011


Can I be Groucho?

No, was the witty one!

 

[HuckFinn]

Have you guys seen the South Park episode where the missionaries who feed crosses to starving Ethiopians seek to convert outer space?

 

[zzguy2]

read this. aliens arent extraterrestrials

http://www.mt.net/~watcher/ufos.html