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If aliens can reach us, they aren't a threat. They either kill us without any issue or they don't want to. There is no fighting back against it.
I do think it'd be interesting to see what happens if we do discovery alien life, particularly of the intelligent variety. So many religions are based on the assumption humans are the only intelligent life, and that earth is that place that can support it. Do they mostly all collapse, or do they evolve? Do people finally recognize the stupidity? It'd be fun to see.
Which religion has the assumption that we are the only intelligent life? The ones I have studied didn't seem to believe that only human intelligence is around. They had demons and angles and gods.
It's at least heavily implied in many. It implies that he created everything and all living things on it only talks about creatures being created on earth. If the book is accurate (it's clearly not, but let's assume) and if it's divinely inspired, it should be aware of cresting life elsewhere also. It also calls stars/glalaxies/nebulas/whatever "lights in the dome of the sky" so not exactly a great start for it.
It being weird or wrong hasn't stopped it really before though, but it would probably create some kind of shift, especially if it's intelligent. In that case, are they deserving the same status as man? Are they children of God also? Why do they look different?
Christians don't even care what the Bible says let alone what it implies.
That's not necessarily true. If aliens do visit us, they might not be able to wipe us out at all. There's really no way to say that other races would be capable of wiping us out, because they might not understand the concept of war in the first place.
They're either capable of wiping us out or they aren't a threat. Either way, not a threat.