Aliens as missionaries
- Felix
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Re: Aliens as missionaries
- Jonathan A Bain
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Re: Aliens as missionaries
Well, thats my theory on Jesus in a nutshell.Steve3007 wrote: ↑November 22nd, 2018, 9:59 am I find this story fascinating:
A Christian missionary visits an isolated tribe who have lived, almost completely independently from the outside world, for possibly thousands of years. Most visitors to their island are met with arrows. This missionary was no exception, but he was determined to bring to them what he clearly thought was an essential message about Jesus, even if it meant his own death. And it did. They shot him dead.
I wonder if there's a chance that a future alien signal detected by SETI, or an actual alien visit, might be motivated by the desire to spread their own version of "the good news" in a similar way, and I wonder if we'll shoot them with arrows.
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