 The question is, does it feel like a horrible thing to us if he died that many times? And I'd say it's a horrible thing that he died once on Earth. But the point is that you look at the theology of people like, say, Thomas Aquinas, who came from a place where humans talk about life on other planets because planets weren't understood to just be wandering stars. He did actually, with open to the possibility that the stars themselves are animated or alive and intelligent.