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Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Big difference between some dudes testimony and hard irrifutable evidence. Some officials can say whatever they like, until you get hard xcom level evidence in front of a public hearing the government hasn’t confirmed shit.

The real reason ayylmaos will never be confirmed is a huge majority of the global population ascribe to a religion incomparable with the existence of extraterrestrial life. The moment it would be confirmed there would be mass panics by religious fundamentalist that space is inhabited by demons or whatever.

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Nahvi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Meh… I would bet most Christians ascribe to the same sort of philosophy that my pastor did back when I was in high school. He always said, “I don’t know if there are aliens out there, but if there are they need Jesus too.”

It’s a bit silly, but he was also a creationist. If he can be fine with aliens but not evolution, I imagine the same is true for most other religious people.

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duh@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t understand why people think religious people will go bananas if aliens are confirmed. There will be unrest at the beginning, sure, and probably more than one dangerous alien based cult will rise. But most of the religious leaders will just adjust their narratives and try to retain as many followers as possible. And most followers will be eager to take explanations and not challenge their core beliefs. If I remember correctly, the Catholic church said they are not opposed to the idea of intelligent life and civilizations outside earth, so it seems like they are somehow prepared.

I think most religious leaders are smart enough not to rush to the “aliens are demons” conclusion, specially if they are proven not to be hostile (I assume they are not if the government are dealing with them).

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WereBearGareBear@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hmmm, I’d argue the idea of God is anything but ‘terrestrial’, maybe even bordering on ‘extra-terrestrial’?

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- bustrpoindextr@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  aliens
  
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gowan@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Are you aware that the overwhelming majority of Christians are taught to not take the Bible literally? Seriously from day one the Roman Catholic Church has held that position because that’s the exact same position the majority of rabbis at the time held about the Hebrew texts. Christianity could easily account for other life but most of Islam takes the Quran literally as Muhammed is supposed to have “fixed the mistakes” of the older texts. Simply put The Vatican wouldn’t need to do much to account for aliens.

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- Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I said ‘Fundimentalist’ as in people taught to legitimately believe everything in the bible/scripture is to be taken literally and everything that is evidence against the stories being true is actually lies and deceptions of the devils doing. Perhaps fundamentalist is technically the wrong word for them but thats whst comes to my mind.
  
  I have spoken to enough Christians to know that there exist both rational people willing to accept their scripture may have some symbolic metaphor and I’ve spoken to batshit insane zelots who warp their subjective reality to match whatever they are told to believe and reject all evidence otherwise. I’ve encountered the latter more often than you might like to think. Even if they are not the majority there is enough of them to do serious damage. I would be interested to see some statistical numbers based on polls if you have the sauce on that.
  
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  - HairyOldCoot@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Maybe ‘biblical literalist’ might be a better term.
    
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