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What do we do if SETI is successful?

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174 points leephillips | 1 comments | 20 Oct 25 17:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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skc ◴[21 Oct 25 20:04 UTC] No.45660974[source]▶
If SETI is successful it would be a fascinating to sit back and observe the deeply religious.
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kulahan ◴[21 Oct 25 20:08 UTC] No.45661015[source]▶
The Catholic church answered this question ages ago. I assume the other major religions did too. It's really not concerning at all to the institution; the major problem would be with people who don't actually understand their own religion.

Granted, this would be a lot of people, but I think it'd be a midrange of "kinda religious, but not enough to dive in"-types who are mostly freaking out over the revelation.

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9dev ◴[21 Oct 25 20:23 UTC] No.45661204[source]▶
So, how does the story go? Only earth is blessed by god, because Jesus crashed here, and all the alien races are toast because they didn’t have a chance to learn about Christ, Savior of the strange bipeds from Earth?

I’m sure they came up with an elaborate story how Jesus loves sentient mollusks from Alpha Centauri, but I hope most people are smart enough to realise how little sense it all makes. I for one am curious how this plays out, if I’m lucky enough to witness it.

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1. hn_acc1 ◴[21 Oct 25 20:40 UTC] No.45661416[source]▶
Check out: "UFO, End Times Delusion" as an example of a fundie take on extra terrestrials. A bit old now, not sure if they've updated it, but it's the kind of stuff I was raised in in the 80s/90s.