Talk:Exotheology/Archive 1

With all due respect, the exotheology stub was deficient in several ways:

(1) it assumed the "fact" of extraterrestrial life (rather than the possibility);

(2) it assumed that alien intelligences have intervened in human history in both "malevolent" and "benign" ways;

(3) it personified the term/concept "exotheology" by assigning to it the active participle "pursuing" (as in, "exotheology can be described as pursuing . . ."; no, it can't);

and (4) it uses the ancient seeding of humanoid races in Star Trek universe as a fictional example of "exotheology." This can only be true if the subject matter of exotheology is the intervention of alien intelligences in the mundanities of the universe. Such a narrowing restriction of content is unacceptable. Moreover, I fail to see the theological import of the "seedings" in question (in other words, where is the "theo" in any of that?).

The belief that aliens have intervened in human history and that they are currently doing so today is patently not within the purview of exotheology as defined in the stub. Perhaps a better name for that belief would be "exoparanoia."

And, finally, the external link (Greater Things) links to a page of rambling, conspiracy-laden, paranoid delusions. I fail to see how the link furthers any responsible discussion of exotheology.


 * I have removed the text and link (accessible in history) particularly since the text is a direct copy of that appearing in the link. In addition the specific description of exotheology given does not appear to conform to the majority of those found from a cursory google search. Here's hoping that somebody who knows something about exotheology in general will post an encyclopedic article. TheosThree 15:06, 23 January 2006 (UTC)