# What are the Christian views on extraterrestrials **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 22, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-christian-views-on-extraterrestrials/1033285 "2026-09-22T19:15:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-christian-views-on-extraterrestrials/1033285/61 "2026-09-27T15:33:49Z")
> [@eburacum45](#): > > Sounds a bit like Lewis, actually. To be fair, Lewis’s Space Trilogy only touched on three planets, in our singular solar system. “We’re the worst of these three” is a lot less extreme than “we’re the worst of all of the zillions of everything in the entire Universe”. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-christian-views-on-extraterrestrials/1033285/62 "2026-09-27T17:08:22Z")
Of course! [![](https://preview.redd.it/and-im-his-friend-jesus-v0-pocjayzj629e1.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=07830d7dffd4ce783f36fe4a8c56f1fc04ca5a8b) ](https://preview.redd.it/and-im-his-friend-jesus-v0-pocjayzj629e1.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=07830d7dffd4ce783f36fe4a8c56f1fc04ca5a8b) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-christian-views-on-extraterrestrials/1033285/63 "2026-09-27T17:16:48Z")
Damn, I haven’t seen that episode and thought you used AI for this picture, but with Google lens I found out that it’s a real still from a Futurama episode and has become a meme. I should be a writer for the series! ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-christian-views-on-extraterrestrials/1033285/64 "2026-09-27T19:13:17Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > thought you used AI for this picture Never! ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-christian-views-on-extraterrestrials/1033285/65 "2026-09-27T19:17:48Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > Never! I really should have thought so 🤦‍♂️, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-christian-views-on-extraterrestrials/1033285/66 "2026-09-29T10:00:49Z")
> [@eburacum45](#): > > It seems like the whole debate is twisted by the statement in the Bible that Jesus was God’s only begotten son I know a guy who only begat one son. And two daughters. ---
**Author:** ![UDS1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47774/32.png) [@UDS1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS1)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-christian-views-on-extraterrestrials/1033285/67 "2026-09-29T10:20:38Z")
> [@eburacum45](#): > > Plenty of people have suggested that a ‘separate incarnation or a second sacrifice of Christ’ would be necessary, or desirable. The universe might be full of Jesus-analogs, administering to crab-people, spider-people, octopoids, bee-hives, and so on, as Olaf Stapledon suggested The OP asks for _Christian_ views. I don’t think Stapledon was a Christian, was he? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-christian-views-on-extraterrestrials/1033285/68 "2026-09-29T17:39:16Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > “So did all you guys have Jesus?” > “Who?” > “You know, Jesus, the son of God who appeared among us to redeem us from our fall.” > “What fall?” > “You know, when God commanded Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit and they did and God cast them out of Eden. So God sent Jesus to redeem us.” > “Wait… you guys ate the fruit… after God specifically told you not to…” [![](https://warandpeas.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/alien-press-conference.jpg) ](https://warandpeas.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/alien-press-conference.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-christian-views-on-extraterrestrials/1033285/69 "2026-09-29T22:28:03Z")
And of course about four Santa Clauses. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-christian-views-on-extraterrestrials/1033285.md?page=3)