If we made first contact with intelligent life how significantly would religion change and would it potentially make humans more xenophobic? [Spirituality & Religion]
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Bushranger · 70-79, M
If they've been watching our television and listening to our radio, they would be hiding and never want to make contact with us. Either that, or they would want to wipe us out to make sure we don't spread.
Either way, xenophobia is well entrenched in human nature so I personally think that won't change much. Religion would be interesting. I'm not sure if it would survive the contact but as others have said, it would probably take the new circumstances into itself as it has done for millennia.
Mind you, I'm very agnostic when it comes to life elsewhere in the universe. Not that I think that we are the ultimate form of life or the peak of creation, but just that we are the result of happenstance.
Either way, xenophobia is well entrenched in human nature so I personally think that won't change much. Religion would be interesting. I'm not sure if it would survive the contact but as others have said, it would probably take the new circumstances into itself as it has done for millennia.
Mind you, I'm very agnostic when it comes to life elsewhere in the universe. Not that I think that we are the ultimate form of life or the peak of creation, but just that we are the result of happenstance.