@ the bolded....we will be questioning our beliefs together then.
Together.
maybe. I feel like They already basically stated they wouldn't tell us, so we will never know how it could bring us together. You have a good point tho, it would be us finding out about some other life we never knew about.
"Historical and empirical studies of the behavior of peoples and their leaders when confronted with dramatic and unfamiliar events or social pressures. How might such information, under what circumstances, be presented to or withheld from the public for what ends?
"The positions of the major American religious denominations, the Christian sects, and the Eastern religions on the matter of extraterrestrial life need elucidation."
"It has been speculated that, of all groups, scientists and engineers might be the most devastated by the discovery of relatively superior creatures, since these professions are most clearly associated with the mastery of nature, rather than with the understanding and expression of man. Advanced understanding of nature might vitiate all our theories at the very least, if not also require a culture and perhaps a brain inaccessible to earth scientists." – page 103, n.34