Aliens and the Enlightenment
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Aliens and the Enlightenment
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#2The idea that other worlds would be your deal breaker on Christianity is strange. They were fine with two continents needing over a millennium to first hear about Jesus, but a plurality of worlds would be "irreconcilable."
Maybe they couldn't imagine space travel ever being possible?
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#3This is full of distortions and omissions.
Firstly, an "earth centred" cosmology did not assume all things were made for man. It held the earth was a small part of the solar system, which in turn was surrounded by far larger (infinite?) heavens.
It is also worth thinking about what Medieval people place at the very centre of the earth, and therefore the exact centre of the universe.
She mentions some possible answers to why Christ came to earth. One possible answer is that HE did not only come to earth. Another is that other species are redeemed in different ways. Another is that they will hear of Christ from us.
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#5This is full of distortions and omissions. Firstly, an "earth centred" cosmology did not assume all things were made for man. It held the earth was a small part of the solar system, which in turn was surrounded by far larger (infinite?) heavens. It is also worth thinking about what Medieval people place at the very centre of the earth, and therefore the exact centre of the universe. She mentions some possible answers…
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#6This is full of distortions and omissions. Firstly, an "earth centred" cosmology did not assume all things were made for man. It held the earth was a small part of the solar system, which in turn was surrounded by far larger (infinite?) heavens. It is also worth thinking about what Medieval people place at the very centre of the earth, and therefore the exact centre of the universe. She mentions some possible answers…
"We gave him this big box of chocolates when he first arrived. Why? What'd you guys do?"
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#7I think the Sumerian clay tablets (that is the bible is partially based of) reveal a lot more about the origins of human civilizations.
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#8The idea that other worlds would be your deal breaker on Christianity is strange. They were fine with two continents needing over a millennium to first hear about Jesus, but a plurality of worlds would be "irreconcilable." Maybe they couldn't imagine space travel ever being possible?
Space travel isn't currently possible. It ever becoming possible is pure speculation on your part. No man has ever left the Earth and set up shop elsewhere and lived. None. Zilch. It's science fiction.
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#9The idea that other worlds would be your deal breaker on Christianity is strange. They were fine with two continents needing over a millennium to first hear about Jesus, but a plurality of worlds would be "irreconcilable." Maybe they couldn't imagine space travel ever being possible?
Space travel isn't currently possible. It ever becoming possible is pure speculation on your part. No man has ever left the Earth and set up shop elsewhere and lived. None. Zilch. It's science fiction.
Yes, in the same way that affordable flying cars are science fiction. The technology is known in theory; we just have (possibly insurmountable) political, financial, and legal hurdles to overcome before it will become possible.
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#10This is full of distortions and omissions. Firstly, an "earth centred" cosmology did not assume all things were made for man. It held the earth was a small part of the solar system, which in turn was surrounded by far larger (infinite?) heavens. It is also worth thinking about what Medieval people place at the very centre of the earth, and therefore the exact centre of the universe. She mentions some possible answers…
"We gave him this big box of chocolates when he first arrived. Why? What'd you guys do?" https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20081124.gif
I thought of that too! Love it.
The version I like best is:
Aliens arrive on earth and visit various people. The first religious leader they meet is the Pope "Do you know our lord and saviour Jesus Christ?".
"Yes, he comes by every few years".
"Every few years? We have been waiting two thousand years for him to come back!"
"Maybe he does not like your chocolates"
"What do chocolates have to do with it?"
"When he first visited us we gave him a big box of chocolates. What did you do?"