let me begin, by asking if the allowed spaces for a thread title have been shortened- if so, that sucks.
now then, here is the question itself- while reviewing documentation can be found here, I once again came upon the novel little question of what if Jesus was an alien. I asked it once before, but that time was dumb, and ever Christian in the land just felt compelled to post their beliefs or some crap like that, which is more or less BS in terms of actual answering anything. so lets hope try 2 will carry on better, shall we?
Now, here's the beef of the situation: Alien civilization has been officially recognized by the US, and European Governments- soon followed by the Russian government as well, following the wests disclosure- and to that end the US has released substantial amounts of information regarding extraterrestrial beings, and their interactions with Earth, which have been going on for millennia, but mostly for no purpose- Earth served as an interesting way point to explore and look over while otherwise the aliens were consumed with going to planets past us. That is, Earth was like an intergalactic pit stop between several major destinations, and by virtue of its location, became itself a site where many a race would occasionally plop down and have a look around once in a while.
For the most part, all of these species took little interest in humanity, some would be benevolent to humans in early societies, other malevolent and the results of such strange experiences formed the basis of Human myths and legends regarding monsters and Mythical beasts good and bad. Most of this doesnt come at a huge shock, just is rather disturbing, and perhaps hard to swallow for the population that so much of the "butter of the bread of human culture" is based on intergalactic travelers that have shuttled down to take an intergalactic leak by the trees over yonder, and give the locals something to talk about once in a while.
However, while nearly all of this interaction between early man and its proto/early civilizations mattered for squat other then the odd tale of goblins who would make your shoes in a night, but try to steal all your kitchen ware by mourning, their were a few instances of aliens having notable contact with humanity, and these events were generally profound- in this regard, the most "important", or at least event with largest impact was the initial creation of Christianity.
The motives of those beings who would have initially placed Jesus on earth had good aspirations, create a human with augments, perhaps technological or even genetic in nature (virgin birth) that would allow for this Human to engage in activity of high technology, either knowingly, or unknowingly, and through the inability of the humans around him to know what they were looking at, feel that what was technology was a gift of god. Indeed, one can see how it would be fairly easy to mask any sort of Alien craft activity during his life with being angels or other signs of god- or perhaps since so little of Jesus's past is known, perhaps this period was just directly spent with said aliens. regardless of, and even regardless of weather or not Jesus was in fact aware of the situation at all, are beside the point- the intentions of the project were to spawn a more peaceful culture, more similar to their own the predominantly warlike cultures that inhabited the earth at that point.
Rather obviously, the action failed in terms of what the religion they established was meant to do, for the most part but it spread the idea, sort of. The clincher for this "new history" was verification by a set of ambassadors from said race verifying it, and even giving detailed records of the entire operation- pictures, recordings, transcripts, everything.
The question I pose isnt if Jesus was one or not -i dont care what your opinions on it are, this is just a specific question, set in a specific situation- but its what would the reaction among the populace be? Would be an embracement of a "false" religion to better be "one with our alien brothers", embracement because of simple awe of these being and their superior technology, or would it instead lead to a "great purge" of anything considered to be of non-earth origin in terms of culture and religion in an effort to make Human culture Human, and perhaps taken up zealously by some in order to "compensate for living a mistake" or something like that- but the question is rather up in the air- my question as such, is what would your feeling on the subject if the above was true, and what are your thoughts on what the consequences on global culture would be.
now then, here is the question itself- while reviewing documentation can be found here, I once again came upon the novel little question of what if Jesus was an alien. I asked it once before, but that time was dumb, and ever Christian in the land just felt compelled to post their beliefs or some crap like that, which is more or less BS in terms of actual answering anything. so lets hope try 2 will carry on better, shall we?
Now, here's the beef of the situation: Alien civilization has been officially recognized by the US, and European Governments- soon followed by the Russian government as well, following the wests disclosure- and to that end the US has released substantial amounts of information regarding extraterrestrial beings, and their interactions with Earth, which have been going on for millennia, but mostly for no purpose- Earth served as an interesting way point to explore and look over while otherwise the aliens were consumed with going to planets past us. That is, Earth was like an intergalactic pit stop between several major destinations, and by virtue of its location, became itself a site where many a race would occasionally plop down and have a look around once in a while.
For the most part, all of these species took little interest in humanity, some would be benevolent to humans in early societies, other malevolent and the results of such strange experiences formed the basis of Human myths and legends regarding monsters and Mythical beasts good and bad. Most of this doesnt come at a huge shock, just is rather disturbing, and perhaps hard to swallow for the population that so much of the "butter of the bread of human culture" is based on intergalactic travelers that have shuttled down to take an intergalactic leak by the trees over yonder, and give the locals something to talk about once in a while.
However, while nearly all of this interaction between early man and its proto/early civilizations mattered for squat other then the odd tale of goblins who would make your shoes in a night, but try to steal all your kitchen ware by mourning, their were a few instances of aliens having notable contact with humanity, and these events were generally profound- in this regard, the most "important", or at least event with largest impact was the initial creation of Christianity.
The motives of those beings who would have initially placed Jesus on earth had good aspirations, create a human with augments, perhaps technological or even genetic in nature (virgin birth) that would allow for this Human to engage in activity of high technology, either knowingly, or unknowingly, and through the inability of the humans around him to know what they were looking at, feel that what was technology was a gift of god. Indeed, one can see how it would be fairly easy to mask any sort of Alien craft activity during his life with being angels or other signs of god- or perhaps since so little of Jesus's past is known, perhaps this period was just directly spent with said aliens. regardless of, and even regardless of weather or not Jesus was in fact aware of the situation at all, are beside the point- the intentions of the project were to spawn a more peaceful culture, more similar to their own the predominantly warlike cultures that inhabited the earth at that point.
Rather obviously, the action failed in terms of what the religion they established was meant to do, for the most part but it spread the idea, sort of. The clincher for this "new history" was verification by a set of ambassadors from said race verifying it, and even giving detailed records of the entire operation- pictures, recordings, transcripts, everything.
The question I pose isnt if Jesus was one or not -i dont care what your opinions on it are, this is just a specific question, set in a specific situation- but its what would the reaction among the populace be? Would be an embracement of a "false" religion to better be "one with our alien brothers", embracement because of simple awe of these being and their superior technology, or would it instead lead to a "great purge" of anything considered to be of non-earth origin in terms of culture and religion in an effort to make Human culture Human, and perhaps taken up zealously by some in order to "compensate for living a mistake" or something like that- but the question is rather up in the air- my question as such, is what would your feeling on the subject if the above was true, and what are your thoughts on what the consequences on global culture would be.
