Inter-species relationships

[Dtmccameron]

Oh, Bah Humbug!

They created MAN in Their own image, not any other speciece. If it isn’t human, it’s a beast. Or a plant, of fungi, but you get my meaning?

Humans ARE the ONLY ones with souls, and even were a intelligent green (or purple, I don’t care) extraterrestrial to hail me this day, I would regard it only as a highly intelligent (and entertaining) animal.

What do you suppose alien tastes like?

But, were a dog to speak, do you not wonder how? It is because it is possessed by an evil spirit! Do not confer with that familiar! BURN IT!!!

The same goes for those abominations on other planets.

Now, if the aliens are simply space cows, I really don’t care. Beasts that act as beasts is perfectly fine. But beasts acting as men…Tis devilry!

(and yes, I remember Balaam’s donkey)

 

[linebyline]

But isn’t that the whole point of this discussion? That is, what if there were other creatures created (at least to some degree) in God’s image?

Of course your idea is always another possibility; I wonder why I didn’t think to mention it?

But it looks like this thread’s about out of steam, anyway. Oh well.

Thanks.

 

[deb1]

But isn’t that the whole point of this discussion? That is, what if there were other creatures created (at least to some degree) in God’s image?

Of course your idea is always another possibility; I wonder why I didn’t think to mention it?

But it looks like this thread’s about out of steam, anyway. Oh well.

Thanks.

I like this thread but there doesn’t seem to be much more to say. It is nice to know that there are nerds like me on Catholic Answers Forum:thumbsup:

 

[exoflare]

When it comes to sci-fi/fantasy, what exactly is the morality involved in having one character fall in love with a character of another species? For instance, the old Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons (and the comic based on it) had as Sonic’s main love interest the ground squirrel Sally. I think this is morally problematic, though I suppose since the idea of such creatures is fiction then the author has the right to make up his own “rules” to some extent. (Worth noting: the Sonic GAMES have never had an actual inter-species romance.)

LOL This sounds like the kind of thing I would ask! On top of that, it’s nice to meet someone else who watched those old Sonic cartoons and read the comics… It only gets weirder from that point on, you know? I don’t really keep up with it now like when I was little but I know that on the cartoon series Sonic X it also has Tails’ love interest being some kind of anthropomorphic plant being! 0_o

Well, back on topic then. I have pretty much come to the conclusion that in stories of this sort, the author basically sets any moral code for that story as well as the laws of nature in that fictional universe. When you think about it, it’s actually a pretty nice parallel (albeit on very different levels):

author IS TO story
AS
God IS TO the universe

You have no idea how deep I’ve gone into thinking about this and how much I could go on and on about it, so … eh, stopping myself here.

 

[Sailor_Kenshin]

An ep in the last season of ST-TNG explained that many of the humanoid-producing planets had been DNA-seeded intentionally by a race of proto-humanoids. So we were all cousins after all.

Leaving God out of the equation entirely, I guess…

 

[DaveBj]

Leaving God out of the equation entirely, I guess…

Yes, but then that was Gene Roddenberry’s intention all along.

DaveBj

 

[Sailor_Kenshin]

Yes, but then that was Gene Roddenberry’s intention all along.

DaveBj

Kind of makes me think of Dean Koontz’ One Door Away From Heaven, where the ‘bioethicist’ believes superaliens created this world, and when he meets a REAL alien, the boy tells him, “The only trouble with that theory is who created the superaliens?”