PSA: Life on other planets doesn't disprove religion

[rudeguy]

Kthxbai

 

[highland145]

But planets without a life....should get one.

 

[dmw16]

God doesn't exist. kthxbai

 

[Ninjahedge]

Um, all it would prove is that maybe "God" wasn't an old white guy with a beard hanging out on chapel ceilings playing fingers with mostly naked men.

 

[Zebo]

Um, all it would prove is that maybe "God" wasn't an old white guy with a beard hanging out on chapel ceilings playing fingers with mostly naked men.

We're special. It even says he created us in his image. Aliens got nothing on chosen ones.

 

[JTsyo]

What if the life on the other planet were Christians? Christ had visited them after he was done talking with Joseph Smith.

dun dun duuuun

 

[sourceninja]

If aliens do exist and they find us before we find them we better hope they are atheist or at least have a religion that doesn't believe in preaching or conversion.

But if their faiths are anything like the ones on earth we had all better convert or be shot down in a blaze death star from space.

 

[Zedtom]

Everything's cool unless their religious beliefs don't include Jesus. Then they will be aliens and heathens.

 

[child of wonder]

If aliens do exist and they find us before we find them we better hope they are atheist or at least have a religion that doesn't believe in preaching or conversion.

But if their faiths are anything like the ones on earth we had all better convert or be shot down in a blaze death star from space.

Very good point.

Imagine making contact with an alien race more technologically advanced than us who also happen to be religious. Then we would all know how Native Americans felt as the Europeans descended upon them.

 

[The Sauce]

Agreed. Religion does an excellent job of disproving itself all on it's own. kthxbai

 

[shiner]

Everything's cool unless their religious beliefs don't include Jesus. Then they will be aliens and heathens.

Heathiens?

 

[Homerboy]

We're special. It even says he created us in his image. Aliens got nothing on chosen ones.

You're confusing religion with Christianity. Christianity is just one form of "religion".

 

[Gibsons]

If aliens do exist and they find us before we find them we better hope they are atheist or at least have a religion that doesn't believe in preaching or conversion.

But if their faiths are anything like the ones on earth we had all better convert or be shot down in a blaze death star from space.

Hopefully they'll be rastafarians. Then it would be a different kind of blaze.

 

[TechBoyJK]

I watched a show recently about the Vatican and they did a 10 minute or so spot on the Astronomy department there. The head astronomers there have concluded that life on other planets is inevitable and has instructed the vatican to take that into consideration when interpreting the bible.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Nothing can disprove a religion based on the alleged existence of an omnipotent being with inscrutible motives and undetectable methods. That's precisely why religion is a useless means of knowing the world.

kthxbai

 

[preslove]

If aliens do exist and they find us before we find them we better hope they are atheist or at least have a religion that doesn't believe in preaching or conversion.

But if their faiths are anything like the ones on earth we had all better convert or be shot down in a blaze death star from space.

Hopefully they don't have religions like protestant christianity, which inspired christians to slaughter indigenous populations, or catholicism, which taught christians to convert and enslave indigenous populations.

Oh, and OP? Life on other planets certainly disproves fundamentalist christianity.

 

[Legendary]

PSA: Nothing has to disprove religion, religion has to prove itself.

 

[MrX8503]

Religion is based upon faith, not evidence, therefore you can never disprove religion.

 

[El Guaraguao]

dont remember seeing in the bible when god said let there be life...on other planets.

 

[Homerboy]

dont remember seeing in the bible when god said let there be life...on other planets.

I don't recall The Bible being included in ALL Religions...

 

[schneiderguy]

Religion is based upon faith, not evidence, therefore you can never disprove religion.

WRong, Religion is based on Facts in the Bible.

 

[preslove]

I don't recall The Bible being included in ALL Religions...

Heh, apparently the Krishnas have some pretty involved theology about other planets and dimensions, all which have intelligent life. Don't really know much about it, but I did share a longish car ride with a crazy Krishna girl who told me about it.

 

[Danwar]

We're special. It even says he created us in his image. Aliens got nothing on chosen ones.

So.... we're created in Gods image... ok...

Then your god is either a sadist or outright doesnt give a damn about his 'children'. and is nowhere near perfect as religions paint him to be.

After all we have an appendix (which is a bestigial organ btw), so therefore so does he and serves no purpose, other than kill you.

We breathe and eat through the same hole/conduit/pipe guaranteeing that some % of us (even kids) will choke to death.

So the way i see it there is either
a) no god or
b) a god that doesn't give a damn. a god that is jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

personally i chose 'a'

 

[God Mode]

It doesn't matter. Believers will adapt and change words to fit their religion into any new scenario. Same thing with the athiests and their beliefs. It's a huge waste of time trying to discuss things rationally with either side since mere words wont convert or sway them.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Nothing "disproves" religion. However, unicorns have not been disproved either.