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Helgoland

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Re: A different take on alien invasion stories
« Reply #15 on: July 07, 2014, 06:16:46 am »

I don't think Jesus ever caused plagues to come down. I say this because I believe, if Jesus ever existed, he was never actually God.
Plus all the plagues are in the Old Testimony. Jesus was more about the healing side of matters according to the bible...
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Re: A different take on alien invasion stories
« Reply #16 on: July 07, 2014, 07:09:43 am »

I don't think Jesus ever caused plagues to come down. I say this because I believe, if Jesus ever existed, he was never actually God.
Was Moses a champion of Nurgle?

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Re: A different take on alien invasion stories
« Reply #17 on: July 07, 2014, 07:42:43 am »

I don't think Jesus ever caused plagues to come down. I say this because I believe, if Jesus ever existed, he was never actually God.
Plus all the plagues are in the Old Testimony. Jesus was more about the healing side of matters according to the bible...
This strictly. is because the encounters with the cat people were never put to text. If they had been, the stuff Moses got up to would have been considered akin to the common cold.

And @ LW, Nurgle is the god of Love. You could replace YWHW with Nurgle and still make a disturbing amount of sense.
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Re: A different take on alien invasion stories
« Reply #18 on: July 07, 2014, 09:46:17 am »

The good Samaritan? What we know of Jesus is that he was pretty damn tolerant.
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Re: A different take on alien invasion stories
« Reply #19 on: July 07, 2014, 10:13:15 am »

Of humans. From what little I can recall right now, many of his encounters with intelligent non-human entities were pretty belligerent, especially when said critters were encroaching on human turf.
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Re: A different take on alien invasion stories
« Reply #20 on: July 07, 2014, 10:24:43 am »

Of humans. From what little I can recall right now, many of his encounters with intelligent non-human entities were pretty belligerent, especially when said critters were encroaching on human turf.
He regularly evicted demons from their homes, for example.
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Re: A different take on alien invasion stories
« Reply #21 on: July 07, 2014, 10:27:31 am »

:P

As long as it wasn't a parasitic life form, I don't think he could have gone genocidal on them without being a hypocrite. And the "son of God" is not meant to be a hypocrite.
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Re: A different take on alien invasion stories
« Reply #22 on: July 07, 2014, 10:34:00 am »

... but why not? I can't recall anything biblical that gives anything non-human (beyond maybe the angels and god, but the former were effectively subordinated to humans and the latter is ostensibly on our side, so...) any particular value whatsoever, beyond the whole farm-the-crap-out-of-it bits. Humans were made in the form of God -- not anything else. Cat people wouldn't count.
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Re: A different take on alien invasion stories
« Reply #23 on: July 07, 2014, 11:00:00 am »

"Love thy neighbour"

If there are cat people, they are your neighbour.
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Re: A different take on alien invasion stories
« Reply #24 on: July 07, 2014, 11:10:17 am »

That doesn't even apply to our relatives, why would it apply to alien species?

An yeah allthough the new testament really tried to dark it we still know, from the Dead Sea Scrolls, about the giant zombie apocalypse he unleashed upon the world by "ressurrecting" Lazarus.
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Re: A different take on alien invasion stories
« Reply #25 on: July 07, 2014, 12:45:46 pm »

"Love thy neighbour"

If there are cat people, they are your neighbour.
No, they are animals that mankind has dominion over. I supposed that would mean we would have to protect them...

Bleh, I suppose we could also eat them. That would technically circumvent the rules while still allowing us to devour them into existence parallel to the Dodos. Though one wonders that if you get to the point where you're manipulating holy scripture to find divine support for your cannibalistic crusade against cat people you're either awesome, Satan or an elf.

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Re: A different take on alien invasion stories
« Reply #26 on: July 07, 2014, 12:47:23 pm »

If they're evidently humanoid, and intelligent, I doubt they'd be classed as animals.
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Re: A different take on alien invasion stories
« Reply #27 on: July 07, 2014, 12:52:34 pm »

I don't know, I've called humans animals before. Besides, humanity is quite capable of deciding other humans are animals based on skin colour. I doubt cat-people would fare very well.
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Re: A different take on alien invasion stories
« Reply #28 on: July 07, 2014, 12:59:29 pm »

Indeed.

But Jesus didn't see black people as animals. And that's the point...Jesus wouldn't encourage a genocidal battle with the cat people, dammit!
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Re: A different take on alien invasion stories
« Reply #29 on: July 07, 2014, 01:04:00 pm »

Yup. I think I'm on your side here. I don't know how many sides there are. Are there even sides?
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