What would an alien think of our religions?

[wcknight]

I would suspect they would have had encounters with the spiritual as well, and may even be more attuned to God and the saints. They may be able to talk to God directly, or they may be in league with Satan and his demons. They may wonder why all humans have not learned of the Truth and converted to Catholicism or they may try to turn everyone to follow demons.

 

[daler]

While obviously impossible to say with any certainty, the question is fascinating.

If these creatures were to bear a substantial resemblance to us (particularly in mental and cognitive ways), it is possible that they would have similar questions and reach similar conclusions/conflicts.If they are totally dissimilar, I’d have to think that just about anything is possible.

With astronomy already proving that there are more planets than stars in the ratio, it is easy to conclude that star/planet systems exist similar to our own. The purpose of the conception of these planetary systems is to incubate life, the highest forms of which would operate similarly to ourselves, we can suppose.

They would also have their religious systems with Prophets and Messengers progressively revealing spiritual truths according to their developmental capacities. There would be some corresponding Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus Prophetic Figures doing Their part in this process, same as here, with certain necessary variations, achieving the same purpose, i.e., the spiritual education and advancement of “men”.

In the late 1800s, Baha’u’llah commented on this theme:

, “Thou hast, moreover, asked Me concerning the nature of the celestial spheres. To comprehend their nature, it would be necessary to inquire into the meaning of the allusions that have been made in the Books of old to the celestial spheres and the heavens, and to discover the character of their relationship to this physical world, and the influence which they exert upon it. Every heart is filled with wonder at so bewildering a theme, and every mind is perplexed by its mystery. God, alone, can fathom its import. The learned men, [divines] that have fixed at several thousand years the life of this earth, have failed, throughout the long period of their observation, to consider either the number or the age of the other planets. Consider, moreover, the manifold divergencies that have resulted from the theories propounded by these men. Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahá’%C3%AD_Faith_and_science
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[john330]

I’d imagine that an extraterrestrial alien species might not be interested in relating to humans. Much like how a human may not be able or interested to relate to an ant or a bee. Differences in biochemistry , method of communication, or sensing their environment could all be obstacles in the aliens relating to humans as they may experience their existence very differently.

The only sane thing I have read in this ridiculously speculative thread.

 

[daler]

The only sane thing I have read in this ridiculously speculative thread.

All life adapts to pressures of environment: Gravity, atmosphere, temperature, food and predators. Outwardly, we will be a composite of those pressures, right? Thats the package we come in.
Sprititual development requires both capacity and Prophets Who in stages will teach them as they have taught us here, progressively revealing truths over thousands of years

To them, we are the Martians of outer space. Many very distant frog ponds with life all over the universe. Now and then some frogs look out, notice other ponds, and wonder: Could their be alien frogs out there???

Yeah, like: zillions, with Alien Buddhas, Jesuses, Moseses to guide them as they grow spiritually. Many parallels, for sure. A no brainer.

God bless the aliens, too, eh?