Father Funes went on to say that Christ’s incarnation and sacrifice was a unique and unrepeatable event. But he said he was sure that, if needed, God’s mercy would be offered to aliens, as it was to humans.
I don’t think this is like official doctrine, but it seems to be the most common attitude I’m finding.
As far as Protestants: the flat earth types might be against aliens because that goes against their everything. I’m really only talking your KJV-onliest or freaky Pentecostal teetering into cult types that would think aliens were literal demons.
But I think most fundies would probably be fine with aliens if they were allowed to proselytize to them, and most mainline Christian churches would be fine with aliens existing.
They don’t gaf about religion beyond the tribal shit and that it gives them a way to act better than those who disagree with them and appeal to an authority that will never contradict them.
Edit: though also, there’s nothing in Christianity that I know of that says aliens can’t exist. The catholic church at least has stopped trying to oppose science, though still hasn’t recovered from the ink they got on their face regarding Galileo, but that was more about the worshop of Aristotle than anything directly related to the religion itself. The whole “the world is only 6k years old and fossils were placed there to test our faith!” isn’t supported by the catholic church. Not to defend them, “believes in science” is still a low bar.
Won’t that upset his Christian base? Isn’t it anti Christian to think aliens exist?
Catholics aren’t opposed to it.
I don’t think this is like official doctrine, but it seems to be the most common attitude I’m finding.
As far as Protestants: the flat earth types might be against aliens because that goes against their everything. I’m really only talking your KJV-onliest or freaky Pentecostal teetering into cult types that would think aliens were literal demons.
But I think most fundies would probably be fine with aliens if they were allowed to proselytize to them, and most mainline Christian churches would be fine with aliens existing.
They don’t gaf about religion beyond the tribal shit and that it gives them a way to act better than those who disagree with them and appeal to an authority that will never contradict them.
Edit: though also, there’s nothing in Christianity that I know of that says aliens can’t exist. The catholic church at least has stopped trying to oppose science, though still hasn’t recovered from the ink they got on their face regarding Galileo, but that was more about the worshop of Aristotle than anything directly related to the religion itself. The whole “the world is only 6k years old and fossils were placed there to test our faith!” isn’t supported by the catholic church. Not to defend them, “believes in science” is still a low bar.