I wonder if aliens have religions? I wonder if we are gods to the monkeys?

This may be a very historic time if humanity is mature enough to "grow up" and stop relying on a father/mother figure or a savior to come save us. What do we need to be saved from? And if there we are in a mess it is us that got us into this mess, not god or the devil, or the aliens. I hope if any aliens come visit us they are mature enough to not need religion. Imagine if they pushed there religion on us? Maybe that is what they did in the first place. Maybe that is where religion came from. But they will probably think humanity is very primitive for having religions.

I think we're going to see great advances in science in the next few decades that will change the way we see the world. This will force more and more people to question their ancient religious superstitions and the belief in a higher power will slowly fade away. By 2100 Christians will probably be a small minority in America as well as in most western countries. I think Islam will be slower to die but even Muslims will be fewer in numbers.

The new movement that is challenging beliefs without evidence will more than likely gain momentum in the coming years as humans demand rational solutions to world problems. It's all a part of the evolutionary process and our will to survive.

If however, irrationality presists and this change doesn't occur, I think the world will become a very dangerous and unpleasant place to live.

But I don't believe aliens will be involved with any of this.

Will we have religions about aliens?

I doubt it.

I do believe in the possibility of intelligent life on other planets. But they are probably so far away that it could be tens of thousands of years from now before we ever make contact with any of them. And if they have the ability to contact us back, they might not want to.

Besides, by then religion on this planet will probably be thought of as a dangerous primitive irrational belief system.

Anyway, why pray to aliens? Unless they can magically answer prayers and give us what we want, what's the point?

A church based on aliens makes about as much since as any other religion. So.....sure why not? In fact, why not have a church based on kangeroos or robots?

There are six billion of us living on this rock flying through space and not a single one of us knows why? So let's just keep making shit up and people will believe it.

Frosty the Snowman is the real savior. He came to life one day from the miracle of a magic hat to save mankind from eternal damnation. But in order for mankind to be saved, Frosty had to melt away. But Frosty promised that he'd return someday to take all believers to heaven.

Will you be ready?

I guess anything is possible.

But, as I've said before, I think as humans evolve we will become less dependent on beliefs without trustworthy evidence.

But, if for instance a nuclear exchange reduces our species to a quarter of it's present population and our technology and science is reduced significantly, there's the chance that religion will make a comeback. Especially if fear controls human thinking.

If by then humans believe that only intelligent life in other worlds can save us from our own destruction then I guess there's the remote possibility that aliens could be part of religion.

But I think that's an unlikely scenario.

If memory serves, Jung wrote some telling essays on UFOs and the human need to see things coming from the sky to provide redemption.  Might want to check it out.