Would Christianity survive the discovery of an extraterrestrial civilization? Hard to imagine how. It's "universality" is terribly parochial and earth bound. Would Jesus need to be crucified on multiple planets? Thought experiment percolating. How would "original sin," the underpinning and prerequisite for salvific theology, work for multiple high level sentient species separated by vast light years in space time and radically different evolution? How would the uncomfortable discontinuities be explained away?
Resistant as religious conviction is to the power of reason, there may yet be this rock or reality upon which this faith would break?
Resistant as religious conviction is to the power of reason, there may yet be this rock or reality upon which this faith would break?
~cheers