Ragtime wrote:
Aliens may actually exist, and/or UFO's may be demonic phenomena.
But either way, God is neither indicated nor disavowed the way your title implies.
I chose the title because I wanted to suggest, and explore, the possibility that a belief in aliens could satisfy some of the same needs, fulfil some of the same functions, as belief in god.
I ended up thinking that, as far as I'm concerned, for a belief in aliens to provide all that belief in god can/does, the alien(s) would have to be such extraordinary incredible being(s) that I might aswell be talking about god(s).
Posting on this thread, and the reading I did about this subject at the same time, actually resulted in my deciding to believe in god again, for far stronger and more interesting reasons than I had ever done previously.