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This question is too vague. “Higher beings” is not well defined enough. “Other planes of existence” is not defined well enough. For that matter “the Gods” is not very specific. And in a weird way, what you’re saying seems somewhat circular. Like what do you call it when you believe gods aren’t gods? If you don’t believe they’re gods then who are you even indicating?

Are you asking if there’s a name for someone who believes that humanity’s major religions do worship real living beings, but those beings are simply advanced alien creatures and not metaphysical in any way.

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TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yup. Believing in higher beings from other dimension is just religion with different words. Only when the belief is based on fact and not faith can it not be religion.

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- angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yes, but there are many different types of religion. You can cathegorize it. If someone asks what a car with a roof you can pull down is called, saying it’s still a car is not helpful.
  
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- abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I disagree, there are rules and structure to religion.
  
  Believing in ghosts is not based on fact. But you wouldn’t call that religion.
  
  Numerology is not a religion. It does have rules, but it is not organised and it doesn’t have a central authority. It is absolutely based on faith though.
  
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  - TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Okay, it’s superstition, of which religion is a variant. There’s a very thin line between having faith in the supernatural and worship.
    
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Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Like what do you call it when you believe gods aren’t gods? If you don’t believe they’re gods then who are you even indicating?

Let me give a possible interpretation. These are hypothetical, both in terms of argument , and in OPs viewpoints.

We live in a simulation. The “higher beings” are the admins that are running the simulation. They can change the settings of the simulation and break the rules with their avatars. They live as common folk on their own plane. Jobs, wife, kids, food and sleep etc. So they don’t have superpowers, they just get to mess with our reality but not theirs.

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- xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  You are not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported
  
  Well, it’s not me.
  
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- AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Gods sounds perfectly usable in this example
  
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