Aliens appear and give us a choice. To accept their religion or to die. How would governments and people react?

Aliens appear and give us a choice. To accept their religion or to die. How would governments and people react?

Surrender but couch it in political terms so the people never realize they've been annexed

See "The Day the Earth stood still"

So long as we get to motorboat hot alien babes, earth would be cool with it.

The major governments would know that fighting the aliens simply isn't a viable option. Any spacefaring civilization has innumerable ways to kill us all without ever giving us a chance to fight back.

So the official policy would be to accept their religion, but there would be a lot of armed resistance to that idea. It would be a shitshow, but a lot of people probably publicly accept the alien religion but practice their own in secret.

Earth is no stranger to religious oppression. We have played this game before.

This is, of course, presuming that is basically just another religion. If it has actual provable miracles or some kind of super-horrifying doctrine/rituals, that can change things.

The guys went to the trouble of traveling several light years just to teach us the word.
Surely there must be something to their faith.

Maybe? Or maybe they are just fanatics.

If human history is any indications, there is a good chance that the aliens imposing their religion on us don't even represent their own civilization. They could just be people that got kicked off of their own world for being insufferable or outdated and unpopular.

>If human history is any indications

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Whenever a religious of political ideology loses credibility in the western world, the people pushing it just go overseas to try forcing it on people in Africa or southeast Asia instead.

Its like how they end up with our old t-shirts and cell phones, but with weird cults and fringe political movements instead.

Half the world gets glassed the other half obeys. There is no fighting an alien threat. Not realistically any ways. There is a reason air forces / carriers became so powerful and why the statement "He who controls the skies controls the land beneath them." became a thing.

Once the "Or die." part of the message was clear many governments would switch into survival mode aiming to keep as many people / themselves alive as possible.