{"id":32789,"date":"2016-12-18T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T00:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/if-we-made-contact-with-aliens-how-would-religions-react"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:57:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:57:16","slug":"if-we-made-contact-with-aliens-how-would-religions-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/if-we-made-contact-with-aliens-how-would-religions-react","title":{"rendered":"If we made contact with aliens, how would religions react?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/if-we-made-contact-with-aliens-how-would-religions-react.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just one aspect of our existence, maybe not necessarily survival.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The discovery of life on another planet might seem incompatible with faith in a deity. Yet many theologians are already open to the existence of extraterrestrials, argues the writer Brandon Ambrosino.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20161215-if-we-made-contact-with-aliens-how-would-religions-react\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20161215-if-we-made-contact-...ions-react<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one aspect of our existence, maybe not necessarily survival. The discovery of life on another planet might seem incompatible with faith in a deity. Yet many theologians are already open to the existence of extraterrestrials, argues the writer Brandon Ambrosino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65555,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32789\/revisions\/65555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}