Former President Barack Obama — a professing Christian — is predicting the discovery of life on other planets could spark “new religions.”
The 59-year-old Democrat shared his prognostication during a conversation with New York Times columnist Ezra Klein.
While the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe would certainly be a paradigm shifting revelation, Obama said it wouldn’t change his politics.
“It’s interesting,” he told Klein. “It wouldn’t change my politics at all, because my entire politics is premised on the fact that we are these tiny organisms on this little speck floating in the middle of space.”
“But, no doubt, there would be immediate arguments about, like, ‘Well, we need to spend a lot more money on weapons systems to defend ourselves,’” the former commander-in-chief continued. “New religions would pop up. And who knows what kind of arguments we get into.”
He went on to quip human beings are “good at manufacturing arguments for each other.”
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