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The existence of aliens would not disprove Christianity. The very Christian author, C.S. Lewis, wrote a novel imagining God interacting with intelligent beings on another planet and making an entirely different path to salvation than the one on earth (Perelandra). I assume Spielberg thinks Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and members of all other religions would remain secure in their religious beliefs after seeing the movie. Why so?
Btw, The Critical Drinker pronounces himself...unimpressed.
Spielberg is trying to draw in the younger crowd by being edgy and "democratic socialist".
ReplyDeleteBut it sounds like yet another preachy movie.
My prediction: it will do poorly.
That comment show how incredibly inflated his ego is.
ReplyDeleteAs I wrote elsewhere, Hubris much?
Happy Birthday Paco!
Another orbit of the Sun successfully completed! Bravo!
Another year avoiding falling into the sun!
DeleteSpielberg's acting like this flick is a documentary, instead of fiction.
ReplyDeleteIf anybody here has read The Mote In God's Eye, a chaplain is added to the first contact mission specifically to determine whether the aliens are indeed "children of God," or do they also have souls?
ReplyDeleteAnd then there's The Sparrow, in which a first contact mission is funded by the Vatican, who put the Jesuits in charge, for similar reasons.
So SF has dealt with these issues before, and without cataclysmic results for any religion that I know of.
Niven has a short story, I forget the name, where a ship is exploring a planet burnt to a crisp by the star going nova. The civilization was pre-spaceflight so they all died.
ReplyDeleteThey calculated the timing and direction from Earth and it turns out that star went nova and those people were snuffed out by the star that led the Magi to the birth of Jesus. The chaplain is pretty torn up about it.
Does that shake your faith?
No, of course not, it's a fricking story.