How would religion deal with intelligent life on other planets?

What if the "guys" from outer space decide to finally show themselves officially? Would religion handle this new reality properly? New values to be swallowed? I have my own opinion on this probability which, I may confess, this mind-blowing event wouldn't happen ever. Read more.

Every religion has its fundamentalist side. Maybe that's one of the darkest sides of Earth, i.e., in every sector, there is always the bad guy who leads their flock. Generally, those cruel leaders have their followers who do the dirty job. In short, how would humanity behave if extraterrestrials decided to make a shift on this planet?

On the other hand, the same religions that are contaminated by those cruel individuals have their bright side. After all, life is dual, so fortunately there is the side that can make the proper balance. Otherwise, humanity would have perished already.

Nonetheless, a paradox lies in most of the traditional religions: whether their Gods are not from this Earth, where are they from after all?

How do religions see ETs?

Traditional religions and their view on extraterrestrial matter

Christinianism

Despite the Council of Nicaea that banned many mentions about extraterrestrials, among Christian religions, Catholicism is the most condescending religion in this controversy. This assumption may be true because, by the end of the 19th century, the Catholic Church authorized the French Jesuit priest Abbé Moigno to decide whether the “doctrine of the plurality of worlds” could coexist with “Catholic truth and morality”.

On the other hand, many Christians still do not believe in life on other planets. Creationist Ken Ham confirms this belief: “The mere existence of other habitable planets is an absurd idea, for there is no part of the Bible that addresses the creation of life in the other orbs in the firmament of the heavens. From a biblical perspective, extraterrestrial life doesn’t seem reasonable at all.”

Judaism

The Cabal, the mystical side of Judaism, clearly admits the possibility of a life out of the Earth. Eliel Roshveder, a famous cabalist, points out in his book“The Various Worlds Inhabited According to Mystic Judaism”: “The ancients knew a constellation of stars with several planets much larger than Earth. One of those stars is named Meroz.”

The Torah doesn't seem to agree with the author: “True intelligence and free will are only possible through the Torah. Only on planet Earth, the Torah was delivered to Moses. And only the Torah has absolute truth in the universe!”

Islamism

The holy book of Islam, the Quran, is not that skeptical towards life elsewhere but on Earth. It makes a clear allusion that Earth is not alone in the firmament: Praise God, the merciful and merciful Lord of the worlds” (Quran 1:2).

An Islamic theologian (who’d rather not identify himself due to obvious reasons) stated: “Although Muslims believe that Islam is the result of a series of practices created for humans on Earth, this does not exclude the possibility of other life forms in the universe. The discovery of aliens would only strengthen the faith of Muslims in the infinite power of God.”

Buddhism

Some Buddhist scriptures mention extraterrestrial regions, where people live "simultaneously" (parallel worlds?) nonetheless with no contact with each other.

A Buddhist sutra quotes: “May all beings everywhere be (selflessly) happy.” Other Buddhist writings say that the “phenomenological worlds are places where sentient and sacred beings live."

Spiritism

This so-called "religion-science-philosophy" claims that "most of the planets in the universe are inhabited by intelligent beings, in different stages of evolution. At this point, planets would be a sort of laboratory/school filled with different species.".

In the book “Life on the Planet Mars” (by a spirit called Ramatis), we can read: “Despite having a similar shape, a Martian being does not have the same features of an earthling, since he or she vibrates in a dimensional environment more subtle than the Earth one.”

New religions/cults and their view on extraterrestrial matter

Vale do Amanhecer

Members of this Brazilian religion claim to be the spiritual descendants of a race of beings from Capela, a distant star, God-sent to drive the evolution of Earth.

Chen Tao

Sect originated from a region of extinct Taiwan that would be the result of the mixture of Christianity, Buddhism, and New Age. The belief is that in a flying saucer, God will seek out the survivors due to a nuclear war that would break out on Earth.

Unarius Academy of Sciences

The founding couple (Ernest and Ruth Norman) swore to be reincarnations of a powerful being named Unarius. The church taught “interdimensional physics” to its devoters and claimed that the Earth would collide with another planet in 2001 when several ships from other planets would appear up in the sky.

One World Family Commune

This church was founded in the 1970s by a painter named Allen Noonan who claimed to have had several supernatural encounters with aliens, he nicknamed “Galactic Elohim of Galactica”.

Seekers

The faithful worshipers of this very sect, founded in Chicago in the 1950s, claimed that beings known as “Guardians”, from the planet Clarion, warned that this Earth would be finished for good on December 21, 1954. Well, it seems we may be “living” according to the “Mandela Effect”. The religion, however still stands.

Urantia Foundation

The famous “Book of Urantia” is a kind of Bible of this sect. The belief is that the book contains scriptures made by aliens from the “Orvonton Commission”. According to these scriptures, Jesus’ real name was Michael, and the universe is composed of seven concentric rings, and God dwells among them.

Ufology (a potential cult?)

In some cases, we may consider that Ufology is turning to "Ufolatry", a new term to explain the nowadays tendency towards Ufology. Hope I'm wrong but with the great amount of so-called "channellings", I may consider Ufology as a "potential cult, sect, or religion. In other words, those cults' main objective is to worship an extraterrestrial entity. Naive people buy it. And so the cult gets stronger. Hope it doesn't go too far. a medium.

Conclusion

It doesn't matter whether you're religious, fanatical, agnostic, mystical, skeptical or an atheist. What matters is that everyone has their own way of understanding things, whether they are feasible or not.

The best call, there's no doubt in my very opinion, is conscious skepticism. It means, that believing for the sake of believing doesn't count for demanding people. That's why ignorance reigns supreme on Planet Earth nowadays.

In order to believe that life exists on other planets or not, you first need to research reliable sources, usually, better if they are from scientific sources. Otherwise, it's a waste of time.

So if you're a person who likes "hard evidence", read this post without getting carried away by gratuitous belief. Be rational and be coherent with your principles. That's what matters after all. Be happy!

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