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Re:Post-Detection SETI Protocols and METI: The Time Has Come... by Animats on Saturday February 11, 2017 @06:29PM (#13625501)
"Even if contact would be limited to prevent any cultural leakage the knowledge of the existence of intelligent life will lead to collapse of at least 3 major religions and their cultural frameworks."

Religion isn't that vulnerable to rationality. Christianity has survived Copernicus, Martin Luther, evolution, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and 2000 years of Jesus Christ failing to show up as promised.

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