If Bashar's Alien Contact Timetable is to be believed, we'll have open alien contact in around 10+ years also (2025 onwards).

I think if anything is going is change religion drastically, it will be that rather than a few humans huddled in shelters on Mars :)

you presupose that there is on Mars
what spiritual human beings of earth
fantasize as to be religion

there, no doubt, would be those
more and less spiritual
as is with all planets of from

if they be also of dogmas
as we made it here be
there would be little to change

Hi Wade, I have to admit your question made me smile for with all that is going on here on earth who has time to think of Mars? Obviously you do and I'm glad for that will certainly take your mind of your problems here for a while anyway.

As for religion on any other planet the ones that are lucky enough to get a chance to go there will take care of that by taking their own religion with them. Frankly I would prefere a world without religion but one of good spiritual values. Religions have caused wars and suffering on earth for many centuries and we wouldnt want to repeat that on another planet. That doesnt mean that we cant have our different religious books and read and apply the love but only the love and not the dogma and creed.

To me an ideal world would be one that goes something like the John Lenon song implies IMAGINE. Listen to the song.

Your question reminds me of a great book called Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein, a pioneer of science-fiction writing, and a guy with a vivid imagination.

His main character was setting off to pioneer on a new planet. The only books they brought along were a volume of the Complete works of Shakespeare and a copy of the Bible (I assume the King James Version). The Bible was brought along for its literary value, i believe, and for other obvious reasons. But I do not think that the pioneers were planning to convert anyone to Christianity or anything near that.

Will moving people to Mars change religion? I believe that depends on the people who go, at least at first. I do think that if I went to Mars, with no intent of returning to Earth, I would find myself feeling the need for God more than ever! Why? Because, for me, God is a comfort and a Rock of centeredness in my life. I also think that it would be exciting to see what happens to religion within the group of people who go to Mars. Will they find themselves needing God? Will they have unusual spiritual experiences? I do not think your question is "ho-hum" at all.(I suggest you edit your question itself to grab a bit more interest!, but that is just my opinion.)

I believe that what you are really asking is if the people who go to Mars will bring religion along with them, along with other social stuff that humans are prone to doing and being. Will those people bring music? What sort? Will they dance together? Will they bring their favorite books? Will they be married, have children, or will children be off-limits, at least at first? Your question brings up a host of other questions that really are fascinating to consider. Just like the pioneers who crossed the Great Plains and settled the USA, I think that this subject is really worthy of discussion and attention.

Love you,

Jai

P.S. This was written before Wade re-edited his original question.

Good question. Whenever The Bible says "The World" it's talking about Earth. Jesus was born in Jerusalem in Bethlehem (which was on Earth), and The Bible says Jesus is returning to "Earth" and that the evil will be gone on "Earth" and there will be A New Earth - New Jerusalem.

I think Christianity will have to have a more metaphorical and universal meaning. I mean, just look at all of the versions of Christianity that exists on this planet today! (Catholic, Baptists, Pentecostal, even a Korean form of Christianity)

I doubt it'll stay 'exactly' the same on another planet, but the Core of Christianity would have to stay the same -

Jesus is "A Son of God" who came to the world and taught people the true nature of God and God is love.

and the reason why I say "a" Son of God, is because Jesus told people to pray saying "Our Father in heaven", not "My" father, or father "Of Jesus" - but all of us.

Peace

They will definitely not be building churches on Mars or having Sunday masses, but there will most likely be spiritual education. Earth religions belong to the paradigms and systems of Old Earth and the people who chose to remain there, and this is where they should stay. Myself, I choose the new Earth.

All religions stem from and are interpretations of the written perceptions of mystic scribes. External interpretations of these perceptions created division, separateness, and deification, not Oneness -- Oneness being the perception and message of the mystic scribes. Human interpretations (or, rather, MIS-interpretations) formed the concept known as religion. The Luciferian Soul Group Consciousness took control over this concept and continued to expand, distort, and exploit it for their agenda.

In regards to colonising Mars -- we already have Earth human beings living on Mars underground. I do not understand why any human being of Earth-lineage -- the most beautiful and rich planet consciousness in this galaxy -- would wish to live in an artificially-controlled and constructed environment beneath a sick and dying planet.

Mars was once very much like our Earth. The surviving Martian race -- some of which are already living in underground facilities on Earth -- are frail and sickly beings. They require our help, love, and acceptance, but are afraid of our divisional, service-to-self, and violent nature. And no wonder. A little less than half the population on Earth does not accept, appreciate, or love Earth humans who are of different cultures, racial stock, and belief systems. If such cannot accept their own, imagine how extra-terrestrials living on Earth would be treated by this population.

Myself, I have no interest in Mars as a planet. But I have interest in interacting with its native sentient inhabitants. I feel we have much we can learn from one another. But we need to start looking after ourselves and our planet and taking back our sovereignty before we can truly help others.