Strange. We make the strange familiar and the new old. Like the familiar foods which have been simulated by processing the alien white flower. But everything is really new and strange. But how else can we relate to the totally alien? But if we have distorted it, are we relating to it at all?

If God created man in His image, in whose image did He create aliens? Or is "image" being taken too literally as physical likeness. But if Jesus was born as a man on earth, what is his message for aliens on other planets?
He would never have gotten crucified on Oasis. That's not the kind of thing the natives would ever do. They're all so civilized, but in an emotionally effortless way. They aren't fighting a sinful nature. Nor are the humans who have been selected to live with them. The rejects, meanwhile, are destroying the earth.