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The existence of aliens was widely accepted by theologians for several centuries until about 1900. By faith we understand the worlds were created by the word of God. - Hebrews 11:3 In the history of Christian thought, astrotheological musings are not new. Ancient pre-Christian authors like Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus speculated on the existence of life in other universes—as did Plato and Aristotle. Many patristic and medieval authors had something to say (usually critical) about the possibility of life on other worlds. But after Nicholas Copernicus published his work defending heliocentrism in 1543, Christians were far more likely to endorse extraterrestrial life. If just a fraction of the myriad stars have planets like ours, people reasoned, then space is a vast metropolis teeming with alien beings. By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, all kinds of religious thinkers believed that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob seeded alien life throughout the cosmos. Of course, there were always skeptics like Galileo, Descartes, Kepler—but belief in extraterrestrials was the dominant position prior to the mid-nineteenth century, represented by Christian thinkers like Timothy Dwight, Thomas Dick, and Thomas Chalmers (even Kant addressed the possibility multiple times). Real or hypothetical, such a position invites robust Christological reflection. On one set of intuitions, the very idea of God’s becoming incarnate on this particular planet is unimaginably preposterous. Assuming the truth of extraterrestrial life—and such life abundantly—the Bible’s scandal of historical particularity seems geocentric or, worse, anthropocentric. At the same time, others argue for multiple incarnations according to which every planet with intelligent life experiences a divine incarnation; after all, Jesus is the Cosmic Christ. In a more traditional understanding, if any alien species needs redemption, then Calvary is enough. One incarnation is sufficient for the entire cosmos. Hans Madueme, “Science and Faith: Astrotheology and Other Strange New Things,” Didaktikos: Journal of Theological Education 1, no. 2 (2018): 42–43.
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Reminder: America won the Vietnam war in 1973, bombing Hanoi. The Vietcong Jane Fonda serviced were wiped out in 1968. Nixon's Vietnamization was successful as ARVN defeated the NVA in '72. Only after the war had been won did SV fall by Democrat treason.
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