"Because as far as they could tell, it worked. in fact, tremendous amounts of effort went into these sorts of religions and religious practices to make sure they were as best as you could possibly make them. people analyzed the effects of the rituals." Yeah but that assumes the Constantly Curious aliens would make up gods to fill the gaps (or at the very least believe in those made up gods) before they worked to fill in those gaps themselves if they didn't yes they would likely be Deistic but if something resembling theistic religion existed it would have to be understood by the people of the time to be entirely speculative also just a reminder that the original question was "How would they be likely to react to discovering it in a first contact scenario?"
Edited by Wild-Starfish on Oct 14th 2022 at 6:51:58 AM
"Because as far as they could tell, it worked. in fact, tremendous amounts of effort went into these sorts of religions and religious practices to make sure they were as best as you could possibly make them. people analyzed the effects of the rituals." Yeah but that assumes the Constantly Curious aliens would make up gods to fill the gaps (or at the very least believe in those made up gods) before they worked to fill in those gaps themselves if they didn't yes they would likely be Deistic but if something resembling theistic religion existed it would have to be understood by the people of the time to be entirely speculative also just a reminder that the original question was "How would they be likely to react to discovering it in a first contact scenario?"
Edited by Wild-Starfish on Oct 14th 2022 at 6:51:58 AM