Re: [Mind's Eye] Re: Did Jesus Die For The Klingons Too?

Very similar to my more serious take Pat, still looking forward to the
book! Glad you can make it by here lately. :)

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Pat <PatrickDHarrington@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 3, 1:27 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I guess I'm more convinced now of the existence of extraterrestrial
>> life than anything religious being true.  I can't see why any general
>> principles of love and the rest should change because other life is
>> out there - yet given the sickening propensity of our religions to
>> inspire elitism amongst adherents (chosen people and other junk) and
>> clown attempts to know better than everyone else, would ET turning up
>> be a reason for people to change views?  Mars has an atmosphere that
>> is saturated with water vapour at some times in its solar cycle,we are
>> finding planets.  Personally, I rather hope for a set of really tough
>> aliens.  Rather cost fellows in other ways they put conquered
>> creatures on their knees for a last prayer to god.  When you turn and
>> say you'd rather have a beer they give you a key to a free bar
>> anonists?d a free pass to their university of the intelligent
>> universe.  But what is the significance of ET being real for
>> religionists?
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> None, in truth.  No more so than the Earth revolving around the Sun.
> God would still remain the Creator of all life forms, so extra-
> terrestrials would only serve to expound on God's omnipotence and
> likeness for variety.  Given the fact that they can reach the Earth,
> that pre-supposes intelligence; that would, then, support an
> 'intellicentric' view rather than an anthropomorphic view, which I
> believe would be FAR more correct and, in fact, it is a theme of my
> book.
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