Non-Terrestrials, Religion, and the Wrong Assumptions.

People often approach spiritual or religious subjects with a showy or even snobbish attitude. On a simplistic level, these topics get treated as intellectually inferior.

But on a real academic level, they sit at the foundation of so much of what we mean by spirituality, theology, society and the pillars of our very ''current'' civilization.

Most people carry religious names.

Even those who say they do not believe in a particular god still make certain utterances or find themselves in situations that make me wonder whether we are almost genetically wired for the religious impulse. Not necessarily the spiritual one, but the religious one: the habit of ascribing or subscribing to some external authority as primordial and superior to whatever we define ourselves as.

That is not the main focus here, but it frames my position.

When the discussion turns to non-terrestrials and spirituality or religion, this angle is one that people rarely approach—whether deliberately or not. The few who have dealt with it have usually ridiculed it or flattened it into some mediocre, middling perspective.

That flattening then draws in or creates further ridicule of the subject itself.

We have heard claims that the Vatican wants to bless aliens or baptize them, and people laugh. But first we have to be clear about what “alien” actually means.

Something being alien does not automatically mean it is technologically, spiritually, or intellectually ahead of us.

Alien simply means not from here.

Being not from here does not, by itself, make it more advanced or more intelligent.

Once we hold that distinction, dismissing the idea of religious interaction—whether the Vatican blessing such beings, or Christians, Muslims, or anyone else engaging with them on those terms—becomes a weaker position. It undercuts itself.

How do we know that such beings might not themselves relate to a higher being beyond our comprehension?

The simple example I keep returning to is this:

what if they process God with a quantum computer linked to some super-network highway, while we are still processing God with a basic local computer that has no real internet—just local storage?

Even if our machine has a Wi-Fi connection, it is still not comparable to what a quantum system could do. Non-human or non-terrestrial does not mean they do not subscribe to a higher being.

It does not mean they do not subscribe to Jesus, Allah, God, or whatever form they recognize.

In various ancient texts we read about, ( where we pay attention to what we are consuming intellectually ) ancient ones in Mesopotamian times speaking of messengers from the higher ones—the gods they themselves worshipped.

There are stories involving these dudes in which a dream or vision appears and is later questioned: was it a genuine vision or merely an excuse?

That is at least a hint that they themselves operated under some form of higher authority. They almost certainly do not need churches and mosques the way we do.

My position remains the same: being non-terrestrial does not negate or rule out the possibility that such beings might themselves believe in a higher power or powers.