What if a more intelligent extraterrestrial species is using religion to manipulate humanity without our knowledge?

"Aliens" don't exist at all. There are devils that will pretend to be whatever will deceive you away from the Bible and into hell.
.
Jesus is God. Jesus is not a "religion".

Nobody can be good enough to avoid hell. The truth is that death leads to immediate heaven or hell, depending only on whether the person believed in Jesus for eternal life, or not.
.
The truth is that Jesus loves you and wants to bless your life freely :) Most of all, Jesus wants you with Him forever, and not in hell. The truth is that every belief except one will lead to eternal torment in the lake of fire for every person. Because nothing pays for our sins except the death and blood of Jesus, the sacrifice of Jesus that is already accomplished by Him . Jesus loves you! The truth is that Jesus is God, and Jesus died on the cross to pay for all of our sins in full, and then Jesus resurrected from the dead. Nothing else pays for our sins, not works, not deeds, not religions. So the only way to heaven and to avoid hell, is by believing in Jesus for eternal life (John 6:47), without adding any of your own works (Romans 4:5). Believe in Jesus to take you to heaven, and you will be in heaven, no matter what, guaranteed. That easy, thanks to Jesus! Tell Jesus that you thank Him that you will be with Him in heaven when you die, because you believe in Jesus! It is too late to be saved, after death

Aliens like that probably don't exist, but if they did, they'd be true bastards.

Then they're pretty good at hiding.

then they would be doing humankind a favour, dear. the true religion of love, as God asks of us, and Christ teaches, is the way forward for humankind. We know that now, dear.

Well, it is not working for the smartest among us.

OK, I give up. What if?

So you are saying god is an alien?

There are sects that believe exactly that. They claim that the angels were ETs who were conscripting Earth people and causing the uneducated Earthlings to create a religion around them. They claim, for example, that the angel wings were just hover craft wings as the angels flew above them.

They also claim that the ET angels told Moses about all the "miracles" that were about to happen during the Exodus. In fact the miracles were only natural events, like volcanoes and red tides, that Moses was told to be happening so that he could forecast them before they affected Egypt.

Catholicism is the One True Faith. The Catholic Church was established by Jesus Christ Himself, True God and True Man. A person can know these things with certainty by reciting the rosary each day with care.

What if?
Well what if.
Not a lot anyone I know could do about it.
How about you?
Know anyone?
Didn't think so.
~