The Good Sisters of the 7 Tentacles

Studies have shown that Atheists know more about the religious tenets and the “holy” books of religions as well as their history than do the faithful. As such, Atheist are, very likely, more capable of evaluating this scenario than the believers.
The scenario is:
There is the possibility, albeit a slim one, that we might discover intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy or be contacted by the same in this century. Should that occur how do you think the world's religions would react to such a event? The only main stream religion, to my knowledge, that has given serious consideration to this is the Catholic church.
I'm reasonably sure the reaction would not be uniform across the mythic, delusional landscape.
What's your take on it?

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Permalink Reply by Craig on October 13, 2011 at 10:47am
Flying spaghetti monster's side project?
Permalink Reply by Pat on October 13, 2011 at 10:48am
The "true believers" in crap like the rapture would twist some words coming from the"Book of Revelation"; the book described by Thomas Jefferson as the "ravings of a maniac."  They would see it as another holy prophesy come to pass that "end times" are upon us.  What the heck.  They're not rational now, so why would we expect them to be in the event we make contact with other intelligence?  They'd just fabricate more nonsense to justify their delusion.
Permalink Reply by Richard K. Emms on October 13, 2011 at 12:29pm
Well said.  I agree.
Permalink Reply by Jim DePaulo on October 13, 2011 at 3:52pm
That's true.  They are great at plastering over the cracks in the crumbling structure of their mythology.  It would be really funny if the aliens were as Aurthur C. Clarke described them in Childhood's End - looking like devils.
Permalink Reply by annet on October 15, 2011 at 10:39am
Doesn't LDS say God lives on a planet named kolob ?  They'd probably be able to incorporate some aliens.  And scientology is based on space travel so they'd probably enjoy an "i told you so" moment.
Permalink Reply by Jedi Wanderer on October 15, 2011 at 10:55am
Yeah scientology would be all over that! Holy crap, Tom Cruise would think he had indubitable proof, that would be a nightmare. Thanks for ruining my fantasy, Anne!
Permalink Reply by annet on October 15, 2011 at 1:17pm
lol
Permalink Reply by Humble Pie on October 25, 2011 at 11:35pm
If you could hie to Kolob In the twinkling of an eye, And then continue onward With that same speed to fly, Do you think that you could ever, Through all eternity, Find out the generationWhere Gods began to be?
Stirring, isn't it?
Permalink Reply by Joe on October 25, 2011 at 11:54pm
I think most would explain it with the good old “God works in mysterious ways” thing.

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