Religion and Alien Disclosure: My Thoughts.
Some seem to believe that disclosure on the existence of Non Human Intelligence/aliens/ETs (should such a thing ever happen) would spell the end of religion. I personally disagree with this.
To be sure this would be detrimental to some religions, or rather sects or forms of religion, but definitely not all.
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The Dharmic religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Shiekism) and Taoistic religions (Confucianism, Taoism, and Shintoism) will likely not be affected by it, those tend to be very accommodating religions in regards to this. Traditional Judaism and Islam will probably fare quite well too, as both don't deny the possibility of the existence of other life out there.
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I have yet to hear anything from Catholics on this issue, but they should fare as the mainline Protestants. However this will probably be quite detrimental to fundamentalist Christian groups (likely fundamentalist Islamic and Jewish groups as well), but not even then it is not a sure thing.
I would be quite interested to see how UFO religions react to this situation.
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@BigMikey
A lot of fundamentalists would have less problem with the idea of non-human intelligent life (the Nephilim in the Bible aren't really explained), but the are unlikely to accept they came form any further away than Earth's upper atmosphere. They think all the evidence about the location of the planets and stars was placed there by God to test their faith.
@BigMikey To support your point, also see Thomas Aquinas’ (Catholic theologian) arguments. A higher-level summary here: https://cruxnow.com/global-church/2017/02/catholicism-handle-discovery-extraterrestrial-life
One of the names for God in Islam is Rabbil Alamin (The Lord of all of the Worlds) and it is believed that God in Islam created at least one to three more intelligent races of beings in addition to humans. Also it is believed that there were countless other Adams created before the Adam in Genesis/The Quran.
In regards to Christianity, I think mainline protestants will be fine. Eastern Orthodox Christians already have accepted the existence of aliens, claiming they are demons.
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