Life on other planets

One could argue that a social alien species would have some underlying god concepts similar to many of ours. It would be the underlying explanation for not yet understood things and it would probably suggest a golden rule type law.There is even some possibility of some of the local variants suggesting a sacrifice as this honours altruism.However, what is astronomically unlikely is any reference to a Jesus like figure formed in the image that is more like us than the aliens (in the image of the true god). This would indeed be interesting and require some pretty hard thinking to explain. I'd suggest that the right similarities without enough would support the idea that religions are evolutionary by products or advantageous to societies.This would all have pretty much zero effect on our religious thinkers. They've all managed to ignore any part of other religions lots of times except there they could conjure up some support for their views (e.g., flood myths).

I think we could separate the evolutionary answer from any specific religious answer. For example, unless the aliens are very much "in our image" their god will not look like the Christian god.I gave examples of what similarities we would expect above based on similarities between our society and theirs. One can conjecture that a non-societal alien race (non-tribal) would not even develop a religion at all since there isn't an evolutionary advantage.