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Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons
(www.theguardian.com)
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You know I figured if we found extraterrestrial life it would result in a massive crisis of faith for every religion, don’t know why it never occurred to me that that is 100% what they’d think if we found extraterrestrial life.
Well, not all religions. Mormons would probably see it as more proof that they're right. They believe that God made multiple planets with sentient species. Besides that, gets a little bit conflicting. Then there's the Heaven's Gates. The weird alien obsessed ones. Probably a couple more, but those are the only ones I can think of. Oh, and Buddhism. Maybe. I don't know much, but I don't think that aliens existing conflicts with any of its principles.
Religions are very adaptable. At least the ones that survive long times. Simply need to reinterpret scripture to include the new information, even claim to predict it. I think there's a certain percentage or type of people who need some kind of religious structure to deal with life, it's a biological thing. Being skeptical and setting aside your own beliefs for analysis is not an easy thing to do.
Of course it could go the other way and aliens confirm that the religion is true, just maybe that our records of events is off a bit. Cue the joke about the aliens saying they absolutely know Jesus, he comes by every year because they give him cookies or chocolate, and then ask why he doesn't come to Earth regularly, what did we give him?