User blog comment:DeltaSquad5/A question to make you think/@comment-160529-20140529004518

Difficult question, but it really depends on what you mean by "god" and "religion" I am spiritual personally, but I dont really follow any traditional religion.

But I do not believe that earth has ever been visited by aliens, on the cosmological scale humans and earth are insignificant... any natural resources this planet has that any alien force would want could be optained without the hassle of dealing with biological beings.

Ancient depictions of htings that look like UFOs and inhuman beings in art are largely the result of fiction.... something a lot of people have a hard time understanding in this day and age is that our ancient predecessors were also familiar with the concept of "making up stories for fun".

As for traditional mythological beigns like those in norse mythology, your mileage may vary as to waht alien even means... in marvel mythology was created around these beings, but they were still magical beings... but also still alien in their own way.

Its also implied that in Marvels mythology, and in the MYthology of DC comics that the gods... Marvels varying pantheons, and DCs new gods.... that they are worshipped across different worlds in different mythologies.

Lets say there was a god, worshiped by two separate species... that both had wildly different views and opinions on how this being existed and who he was... Does that change the fact that this being exists?

I think one of my favorite versions of this... differing interpretations thing, is in one of the Martian Manhunter comics, that takes place in the DC 1 Million continuity.

Three aliens from across the universe who have all come to mars in the year 45000 (roughly), each of these aliens species was visited by the Martian Manhunter, and he became integral to their beliefs and religion.... and all three of them viewed him completely differently.

I feel like this would be indicitive of any real god if there is one... God, whoever and whatever he is would be more like an adaptive and sentient fundamental law of physics, having to be what he needs to be at the right time and place.

any other beings that visited this world, and actually informed the cultures of ancient peoples... if they claimed to be gods, would not be god and wouldnt shake my faith.

And I wouldn't be upset with them, I would forgive them... its not their fault if in our ignorance we misinterpreted them, or if they took advantage of a small ignorant race... its understandable, its a power that is hard to not abuse.

You gotta almost seperate in your mind.... "gods" and "god" there have been many beings in fiction worshiped as deities... but think abotu Thor, and Hercules, and the Skrull god from marvel.

are they... are they really gods?

No... not really.