Great news to my Catholic friends, the Vatican doesn’t have a problem with people believing in aliens. I know this comes as a huge relief. I, for one, have been holding my breathe.
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God.
The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, says that the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.
In an interview published Tuesday by Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Funes says that such a notion “doesn’t contradict our faith” because aliens would still be God’s creatures.
The interview was headlined “The extraterrestrial is my brother.”
Funes said that ruling out the existence of aliens would be like “putting limits” on God’s creative freedom.
Interesting!
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Hey, just wanted to drop a comment and thatnk you for hitting up my little vat of horrors on a fairly regular basis. I may horribly tasteless but I hope that you at least got a couple of laughs outta dropping by…?
Take care.
I guess God’s creative freedom includes things like viruses, birth defects, earthquakes, psychosis… you know, just to keep it interesting.