Can a christian kill an alien? (no honestly)

I've been for lunch with a friend of mine who writes short stories and the like - He's currently writing one with an "alien landing" in it and the religious reaction around the world.Here's a point we got stuck on - does "Thou shall not kill" apply to things not of this earth?I guess we actually need some aliens to land to KNOW the answer but what do people think (besides the fact that clearly I'm making the most of the chance to have pleasant lunches before my schedule gets too busy in sept.)?

Demons - sent by Satan.

heh... outsiders and christians ...There are two stories that spring to mind (and I think both are from Isaac Asimov).In one a space station concludes that the humans send to set it up must be inferior creations of God and send to the station for a purpose it doesn't quite understand (I think also it has a disbelief in earth.In the second (and I'm not sure this one is Asimov) - A space traveller exposes some aliens without a belief system to the bible. so they nail him to a plank of wood.And now I think about it... Doesn't Dune have the bible incorporated into one of it's belief systems?(sob..and nobody wanted to discuss the golden path when I started a thread on it....)

I missed this comment first-time around:

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I saw your Golden Path thread but was in the middle of A-level marking. I was too distressed by grade-inflation to comment

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So you got your 20 minutes training off ed-excel?(you know I was a school teacher,right? A-level classes are the jam for the teacher in the secondary school system!)

I was a business and economics teacher (expect I never taught any economics as it's em..hard and thus schools worry it will affect their pass rate). I also used to teach IT.yeah I saw that report this morning - Standards are risingdoubleplusgood, pay no attention to the education sec behind the curtain...