Discovery of intelligent alien life would be lethal to Abrahamic monotheism:
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Does it though? Maybe I'm too attached to Maimonides, but it doesn't seem like a big deal. Hell, there've been *conferences* for 50 years.
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I don't know if theologians would be bothered but I think in lived religion, God is often imagined/experienced in anthropological terms.
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Maybe. I am all about the lived religion when dealing with self-styled "students of the Quran" among Islamophobes, so lived rel matters.
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I shouldn't have framed it as a "live or die" question but rather as a "how will faith evolve question." I do think it'll force an evolution
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And I think the upshot of that *thing* is that this kind of thing is already priced into the contemporary believer's world view.
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That's true -- American religion is already a bit sci-fi (and American sci-fi is already a kind of religion). So maybe it'll meld.
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Jim's pet theory is that all non-evengelicals are operationally believers in Universal Reconciliation even if they don't use the term.
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That theory happens to be true.
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