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The fundamental drivers of religion are the soothing answers it provides to life's most pressing questions. What happens to us when we die? Why are we here? What happened before we existed?
Mix some fundamental questions that even science has a hard time answering with answers that basically say that the most powerful force in the universe personally loves us and will make sure we never die but live forever in an even happier existence with all of our lost loved ones....yeah. Good luck competing with that. Aliens aren't going to fuck up that equation.
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thenewgreen · 4844 days ago · link ·
Well said. I see someone daily that is a pretty staunch "believer" and whenever I pose a question to her that challenges her notions of god/faith, she answers "God is just so big, I don't know... he's just SO big".
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briandmyers · 4843 days ago · link ·
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thenewgreen · 4843 days ago · link ·
"and Jenkins, seems your mother died this morning". -makes me want to rewatch this again.
thenewgreen · 4844 days ago · link ·
Religions manage to avoid other realities pretty easily, not sure why this would be any different.
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I don't think so. I believe it would lead to less religious people, but not by much.
IMHO religion has most to do with the experience of being an immortal conscience in a mortal body. I think that confirmation of ETs would mess with some dogmas, but not alter the fundamental motivations that much.
Personally i think the idea of finding aliens is the wrong way to look at the universe we have to believe we are the only forms of life or we will not be motivated to go beyond out own planet. No one nor thing is going to come and save us. We have to do it our selves the belief in aliens is the child waiting for his/her mother.