well.......... "IF" there happens to be other sheep on other planets out there - oh well TOO BAD FOR THEM....
MY BIBLE SAYS..... For God so Loved the "WORLD"
He died for US and NOT them.... sure would stink to be them....
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Out of context, this just seems silly to me. Of course, it also seems pretty damn self-entitled. So if god created everything in the universe, he's only going to love some of it? God sure is a prick.
You better hope that if an intelligent species does ever come in to contact with Earth that they are not as dogmatic as you. Who knows what characteristics they might have evolved over the eons to adapt to their place of birth.
If they have a religion that says every planet with other species living on it must be converted to said religion. Then brother, are we all in trouble. Fat lot of good your prayers will do you then.
Your book sez:
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth ."
Not "World", "Earth".
He died for somebody else's planet, so you're fucked along with the rest of us heathens.
What if there are bigger, meaner, more ancient, even more insane gods out there? Old Ones, so to speak. Boy, are you in the shit.
Well, that's just too bad that your poor excuse for a god didn't bother defining what the term "world" encompasses. If you were to ask me, I'd say that unless you specifically mention planet Earth then "world" means the entire universe.
But then again, who cares? Since your god is nothing more than an emotional crutch, it really makes no difference what he said.
Hi,
there is an old (1954) SciFi-novellette circling around this theme. It's by Lester del Rey: "For I am a jealous people".
The plot is mainly that invaders from outer space attack earth. Their efficient, ruthless, cruel and brutal attack is supported by unexplicable marvels. A faithful preacher discovers that these are indeed miracles as God has finally decided to get rid of the humans. Now God supports the invaders and commands them to eradicate the humans as He commanded the israelites to conquer Israel.
So maybe these aliens you despise are the Chosen Ones?
But in the final pages there is a twist in the plot. The humans are able to repulse a major attack by the aliens and kill them by the thousands*, and the preacher declares to his parish: "God has cancelled the old contracts and declared himself enemy of mankind. I declare, he has found a worthy foe!"
CU
*Iron chariots someone?
Am I the only one who's picturing that scene in both the movie and book Contact, by Carl Sagan? They get concrete evidence of extraterrestrial intelligent life, and one of the people objecting to the creation of the machine they gave us the designs to build, argues "We don't even know if they believe in god..."
If this god fucked over the pipples on other planets, why should they?
Oh, so it is possible that God only favours *one* planet.
What if it's not *our* planet?
Do we need to call in Master Chief if the Fundies From Outer Space start getting cranky?
That's even more unfair than just the whole population of the planet has only the choice of be saved or hell. At least on earth there's some potential for someone to come tell you about it (though there are groups that are still uncontacted, and in many cases, the idea of bringing new people the religion is not to save them, but to have power over them and take over their land and stuff). If the only Jesus died here, and nowhere else, then 'people' on other planets are just plain fucked because we don't even know they exist yet, let alone how to get to them if we did.
Do you see now why I am atheist?
He died for US and NOT them.... sure would stink to be them....
Boy, wouldn't it make you feel lousy if you didn't have a made up zombie in your distant past, that did a few parlor tricks before dying horribly for being a troublemaker, whose pretend sky daddy apparently never gave a shit for anything after he created it, and ...
Oh, oh . . . waitaminnit, that's ME! I'm the one who doesn't believe any of this shit. Oh, what will I do?
Sure must suck to be me, I guess.
Actually your human religions are a cargo cult. Bit of of a mistake with one of our early science missions. We didn't think it'd take. And we sincerely apologize.
We also think your UFO cults are hilarious.
Not even close!
~Luv
The Aliens.
So I guess that, when Cochrane pulled a shotgun on the Vulcans, looted their ship, and enslaved their planet he was doing the right thing? Is there a version of you without a goatee that I could speak with?
So a universe with more galaxies than people, each containing a hundred billion suns, was made for this one little rocky planet? A freshman engineering student can see the problem with this- God is extremely inefficient. God fails engineering and economics.
The Human Form is Perfect, Fear the Alien, Burn the Heretic, Kill the Mutant Blessed is the Mind too Small for Doubt An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded!
Christ wanders in the Universe
A flesh of stars,
He takes on creature shapes
To suit the mildest elements,
He dresses him in flesh beyond our ken.
There He walks, glides, flies, shambling of strangeness.
Here He walks Men.
He walks upon the molecules of seas
All boiling stews of beast
All maddened broth and brew and rising up of yeast.
There Christ by many names is known.
We call him thus.
They call him otherwise.
His name on any mouth would be a sweet surprise.
He comes with gifts for all,
Here: wine and bread.
There: nameless foods
At breakfasts where the morsels fall from stars
And Last Suppers are doled forth with stuff of dreams.
So sit they there in times before the Man is crucified.
Here He has long been dead.
There He has not yet died.
- "Christus Apollo", Ray Bradbury
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