C.S. Lewis and the aliens

Some brief thoughts on Disclosure Day

Hello friends. I went to see the newest Steven Spielberg film, Disclosure Day, with my family. We’ve been super excited to see it, as aliens and UAP are a popular topic in the Kent household. By and large, a disappointing movie on a few different metrics: excitement, intrigue, and music. I like a movie that leaves you thinking for days after the event, and this one falls short. However, that hasn’t stopped Disclosure Day from generating CONTROVERSY, because there must always be CONNNTROVERSYYYYY……

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Now back to ‘Disclosure Day’

The only question Spielberg’s movie asks is a very old and rather tired one. Will religious people be broken by the revelation of new scientific information in the universe? Considering it’s 2026 and 3/4 of the world is religious in some way, shape, or form, I think not. Disclosure Day features a former nun who worries that the release of evidence pointing to aliens will set the world ablaze and rupture the worldviews of the faithful. She later decides this is unlikely to happen, but it still became a sore subject online for reviewers and Christian critics.

The director made it worse by telling the press:

“What does this do to the fundamental beliefs that many of us have? Is God our God only on this planet, or is God a God for every system where there’s civilization, intelligent life, and even developing life?”

A few months ago, I was recommended the 4-page essay by C.S. Lewis, “Religion & Rocketry,” which is Lewis’s take on that same question from 1958. He finds the premise Spielberg offers here to be tiresome. More interesting questions exist…

Is there life elsewhere? Does that life possess reason and a capacity to define “the good”? Would humans be able to even recognize them as something other than animals....if not, we’d likely kill them casually like we do our own animals.

Have these aliens Fallen and also been marked by Sin? Did the fall of Man impact the whole universe, and did Christ’s redeeming death serve all of Creation or just Mankind who needed it? And lastly, if all life is God’s creation, and these aliens are indeed unfallen, without sin, then why should we not align ourselves with them over humanity?

Romans 8:22 says: “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.”

The whole of creation…..is….broad language.

That’s what I’ll leave you with today. Just questions worth asking about alien life. If intelligent life exists, will we even recognize it? And if you believe in Creation and Sin….are they sinful? Is there a reason God put us so far apart in the cosmos?

Leave a comment and share what questions YOU would love to see addressed in a popular film?