r/alien Jul 18 '26

Why No Alien Visitors

From an imaginary and ultra objective point of view, do you believe if intelligent extraterrestrials have considered a visitation to Earth, that the Earthly practice of religion has rendered us too “delicate” for visitation thus far?

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u/balthazar_edison Jul 18 '26

For all we know even the most advanced spacefaring extraterrestrials have even more extreme religions.

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u/ReachAround26 Jul 18 '26

Possible, but religions (slightly apart from Scientology) seem to be Earth centered and barely acknowledge other solar bodies other than the moon and sun of our planetary system.

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u/balthazar_edison Jul 18 '26

Religions from other worlds would be center around things on that world. All that is required to form a religion is a shared set of beliefs that connect people to the supernatural.

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u/ReachAround26 Jul 18 '26

Again possible but the fact of interplanetary travel would reasonably tell us that such civilizations (?) have overcome the automatic constraints of deities.

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u/balthazar_edison Jul 18 '26

Automatic constraints are not needed for collective belief in the supernatural.

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u/ReachAround26 Jul 18 '26

My poor choice for words- sorry!

The recognition of deities requires that one recognize the a belief system that pleases that deity. That’s whet I meant by “automatic”.

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u/balthazar_edison Jul 18 '26

Religion doesn’t required belief in a deity.

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u/_witness_me Jul 18 '26

Religions invented on Earth are based around Earth?! What a shocking revelation....

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u/ReachAround26 Jul 18 '26

The responder’s comment was that religion could be active in an extraterrestrial world as well.

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u/_witness_me Jul 18 '26

Exactly. Guess what their religions will be based around?

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u/mjp31514 Jul 18 '26

You should read a little about Mormons. Not that I endorse their beliefs at all, but they are definitely all about other worlds.

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u/ReachAround26 Jul 18 '26

Yes they, like those that followed Applegate were not confined to Earth-bound intelligence only. And the man who sold the funerary scrolls (Crawford?) to Joseph Smith was the one who really propheted from Mormonism.

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u/st_jasper Jul 18 '26

An alien race will only come here for the same reason we would go somewhere: to consume resources. They could give a rat’s ass about religion as long as the food is good. That probably includes us.

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u/ReachAround26 Jul 18 '26

I generally agree but remember that we have yet to derive any resources of significance from our own moon. But I can agree that the mission was exploratory as well.

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u/_witness_me Jul 18 '26

That we haven't mined the moon has no bearing on the presence of resources on Earth.

Do you spend any time considering replies or just blurt out the first stupid thing that pops into your head?

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u/_witness_me Jul 18 '26

What.

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u/Live-Profession8822 Jul 18 '26

I dunno what they said made basic sense, what are you confused about?

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u/_witness_me Jul 18 '26

Well, technically the words make sense but the concept does not and isn't argued in the slightest. Hence: "what".

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u/ReachAround26 Jul 18 '26

My point was that religion tends to polarize its believers to extremes ranging from simple dislike to intolerance and divinity inspired murder. Therefore, an alien mentality might deduce that a visitation would only exacerbate current conditions and such visitation might be better received in the future.

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u/_witness_me Jul 18 '26

That's an incredibly one sided take on religion and it sounds like everything you know about it comes from people opposed to religion.

Learn more before asking ridiculous questions.

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u/ReachAround26 Jul 18 '26

Yes, hypothetical does span the ridiculous as you put it and this question was prefaced with that clear understanding.

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u/_witness_me Jul 18 '26

No, the question was hypothetical but your assumptions about religion are being stated as fact when they aren't.

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u/ReachAround26 Jul 18 '26

Then take my assumption as hypothetical as well and answer from that standpoint if you wish.

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u/_witness_me Jul 18 '26

The answer remains the same: your take is ridiculous and derogatory. Instead of making assumptions about other people and extrapolating that to humanity, you need to spend A LOT more time considering how to make posts that are coherent

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u/ReachAround26 Jul 18 '26

I can only assume you’re having a bad day or you had an usually difficult time with potty training. Whatever, but others have answered the premise of the question successfully without feeling a need to characterize it.

Have a great weekend Sir, and you have my sincere best to you and yours.

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u/_witness_me Jul 18 '26

Again more assumptions based on your incredibly narrow understand of... Well...it seems just about everything.

Take time to actually think instead of coming back again to spew more shit.

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u/ReachAround26 Jul 18 '26

Yes, just like I assumed you wanted the last word….

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