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This Existential Comics<\/a> gets at one of the biggest challenges that encounter with extraterrestrials could offer to terrestrial faiths. Some have presumed that either the presence of belief in incarnations of God on their world would be a biggie, at least for Christians. Others have presumed the opposite, the apparent lack of such revelations specific to their world. But what if they don\u2019t even understand our questions and the assumptions that they take for granted at the most basic level?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"