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Do Aliens from other planets also believe in gods? - C C - Jan 16, 2026

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-brain-on-food/202601/do-aliens-from-other-planets-also-believe-in-gods

KEY POINTS

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship.

Because they missed their loved ones, and did not wish to die themselves, they invented an afterlife.

Humans invented thousands of gods as a way to hopefully avoid death and the death of our loved ones.

By the time that aliens finally do land, both humans and aliens will have long since discarded their myths... (MORE - details)
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The forecast at the end seems pretty far-fetched. Any ETs crossing interstellar distances would likely be post-biological intelligences or technological space entities, some of which might be archailects or the equivalent of gods themselves.

With respect to humans: Gods are just concepts that have been either personified or given animal form, and a subdivision of those abstractions rendered concrete can be the moral and political ideologies of particular communities. People will always be worshiping their conduct standards and thought orientations, whether the latter have been anthropomorphised or zoomorphised like in ancient times or not.

And "afterlife" isn't necessarily dependent upon gods, but some prior-in-rank stratum that makes the natural or observed world possible. That latter could be a supernatural order devoid of governing personhood or a simulator grounded in technology (quasi-repeat of this level).

RE: Do Aliens from other planets also believe in gods? - stryder - Jan 16, 2026

Pretty sure the invention of Gods has only ever been about self-serving autocrats. To push a direction, an ideology to get what ever the goal is for an individual or minority over other people.

If there was aliens out there somewhere and they had "religion", then you can expect them to also have sociopaths, narcissists, sexists, racists and probably serial killers. (If the world wasn't already skewed enough)

RE: Do Aliens from other planets also believe in gods? - Syne - Jan 16, 2026

That's some major ignorance on the origins of religion. But I'm sure it must be very self-assuring.

RE: Do Aliens from other planets also believe in gods? - stryder - Jan 16, 2026

(Jan 16, 2026 09:22 PM)Syne Wrote: That's some major ignorance on the origins of religion. But I'm sure it must be very self-assuring.

Hardly ignorance, it is the way.

Before man reached a point to talk religious twaddle, his ancestors would of been quite capable of doing some very primitive things, such as expressing dominance and control over those which could prove of use to them. Adding the capacity to construct a tale through communication just made the methods that could be used stem from just beyond raw power and force, from intimidation to manipulating understanding.

RE: Do Aliens from other planets also believe in gods? - Syne - Jan 16, 2026

So you imagine a past where rulers could exercise control over storytelling from parents to their children. Sure. 9_9

RE: Do Aliens from other planets also believe in gods? - Zinjanthropos - Jan 17, 2026

If the aliens haven’t proven how the universe got here then I think there’s a possibility they believe in a god.

Holy grail is knowing that the grail is really holy.

RE: Do Aliens from other planets also believe in gods? - Magical Realist - Jan 18, 2026

If aliens believe in gods, it's probably as some Lovecraftian Old Ones of cosmic chaos. They will have had many more eons practicing penetrating the esoteric veils between dimensions. And only a spacefaring species used to a predatory life in the far outreaches of the starry abyss could properly appreciate the horrors and powers of such vast and numinous deities.