Aliens with Other Dieties

[PhoenixRider]

If alien life is discovered, how would the church view native religions practices by other alien races that are different in nature to Catholicism. Say we find New Age style belief in the form of something like the force in Star Wars or Eywa from Avatar? Or maybe even an actual deity(ties) worshipped by other intelligent life through other forms of religion.

 

[GEddie]

If alien life is discovered, how would the church view native religions practices by other alien races that are different in nature to Catholicism. Say we find New Age style belief in the form of something like the force in Star Wars or Eywa from Avatar? Or maybe even an actual deity(ties) worshipped by other intelligent life through other forms of religion.

Would depend upon the situation, and how well the alien faith was understood. (It would take generations to translate an alien language— if they had what we would call a language— simply because it arises in ‘heads’ that do not work like ours; let alone a set of alien religious rubrics).

The Church itself would probably not change at all. Neither the Holy Spirit through Scripture, nor our LORD, ever claimed that our form of religion was for anybody other than human beings. Beings having completely different minds and bodies (as well as world) would not be expected to share our religion, nor we theirs.

Hypotheticals that may not arise at all, or not for millenniums, do not head the Magisterium’s to-do list. Our human brethren have enough problems.

God Bless and ICXC NIKA.