You really don’t see the difference between the Taliban and, say, the Latter Day Saints? :dubious:
Anyway, I’d be trying to figure out how to get a ride on one of the aliens’ spacecraft.
I do see a difference. But will the aliens? And are we talking about the more mainstream Mormons, or the FLDS? Because I see a difference between those two sects, as well.
Will the aliens recognize ANY difference between any of our religions?
And why would you try to kill them?
They’ve tapped into our information systems and analyzed virtually all information in both public and private archives.
Sure, they might understand that WE think our religions are different. But will they care enough to differentiate between the religions?
In what sense? Discrimnate against a particular religion?
So all-powerful aliens who can’t be stopped and who won’t leave have shown up and for some reason they judge who gets to live and who dies based on a particular viewpoint in American politics.
Well, I can’t do anything to stop them, but since they’ll probably be looking for a new scapegoat once they’re done killing off every conservative Muslim on the planet, I’ll oppose them to the best of my ability.
ETA: Not that I think the aliens should kill off the entire Taliban and its supporters, but it sounds like I won’t have much of a chance to protest either.
Sure, they will come along and tell us how we ALL got it wrong. The correct God is %^!!, and the correct religion is %^!!ism, and we better start prayin’ like mutherfuckers to %^!! ASAP. Or else.
Your proposition is acceptable.
How’s that Oakminster suit fit?
Because they attempt to impose their will on us. Oak don’t play that shit.
A bit tight in the ass.
As Peter Graves said in It Conquered the World:
*He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can’t be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection… they find only death… fire… loss… disillusionment… the end of everything that’s gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can’t be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside, from Man himself.
*
No matter how awesome the aliens and how cool the gifts, some will resist.
The OP assumes that the benevolent aliens just want to serve man…
So my first reaction would be…ask 'em to show me their cookbooks.
(note: if ya don’t get the reference, shame on you! Now go look up some guy named Rod Serling…)
ROFLMAO.
Well played, Sir. Well played.
…who adapted it from a 1950 short story by Damon Knight.
In the sense that they WON’T discriminate between any Terran religion. That is, they might very well tell us to stop believing in ANY gods. You seem to assume that they’ll think that Christianity is great. What if they think it’s a bunch of hooey, on a par with believing in the Tooth Fairy? That is, they might think that religion is fine for youngsters, but it’s time we, as a species, grew out of it.
And the trigger finger itches.
No offense, just playing with the words.
Suppose they are deists but tolerate all religions as long as it non-violent and doesn’t oppose their “protectorate” violently.
Would that include non-violent conversion? That is to say, if the aliens arrival prompted everyone to become, let’s say, Wiccan, what would their reaction be?
I would think it would be far more likely that they are atheists, and one of their instructions to the human race is to get over all our god delusions.
What if they tell us we can have virtual immortality through their medical technology, and an interstellar drive to go out and visit the universe, if we dump our religious beliefs – all of them.