At least religious people have an excuse because their belief comes from a place of suffering, no one who thinks these sci-fi fantasy concepts are real is suffering, these beliefs come from a place of extreme comfort, nobody who believes in aliens is from the global south, how many times do liars need to stand in front of governments and say “aliens are real” for there to be some kind of explicit denouncement from atheists for these absolutely non-atheistic beliefs that get a pass because they are sci-fi. PURGE THE NERDS!
I would not be surprised in any way if life similar to earth existed, exists, or will exist along the exceedingly large time frames and scale of ‘every planet’. Aliens as theorized by any earth based life form I have any familiarity with is rooted in the same exact baseless bullshit that religion is.
A good reason to doubt any supposed higher power is how anthropomorphized the being is, especially if they strongly mirror the concerns and the attitudes of believers. It always makes me suspicious when I see something that is so obviously rooted in a specific historical context that is taken by some as representing a universal truth. You could make a similar argument with UFOs being rooted in the context of the Cold War, especially given the experiences of contactless who said these higher powers were primarily concerned with the threat of nuclear war and environmental (read non climate concerned) degradation.
