Vatican says Aliens could exist

Conor108

Theres alreasy a thread in Christianity but there wont be the classic After Hours replies over there!

The Pope's chief astronomer says that life on Mars cannot be ruled out.

Writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father Gabriel Funes, said intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space.

Father Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory near Rome, is a respected scientist who collaborates with universities around the world.

The search for forms of extraterrestrial life, he says, does not contradict belief in God.

The official Vatican newspaper headlines his article 'Aliens Are My Brother'.

Reminds me of that Bishop from Father Ted

Full Story BBC

Gordon

Hedging their bets.

armour87

Vatican in lunacy claim shocker

Rb

I suppose they're Catholic too?

F*cking arseholes.

admiralofthefleet

they said they didnt know anything about child abuse too...

sidneykidney

Next thing you know they be asking us to accept that there priests werent kiddy fiddlers.

Rob_l

how do aliens interfer with the idea of a catholic god


I should probably pose that question in chritianity but they all scare me ov there trying to force their god on me.

My god is better than theres and they cant handle the truth

Dave!

Gordon wrote: »

Hedging their bets.

Indeed.

It will be funny if we do indeed discover extraterrestrial life, cos the Catholic Church will have to explain things like why Jesus appeared on earth rather than Mars, are Martians going to hell even though they didn't get an opportunity to worship Jesus, etc.

monkeyfudge

It's the Gelgameks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvGD4Jp3_4I

So South Park were right.

Damn you fudgemonkey.

Irish Halo

DaveMcG wrote: »

Indeed.

It will be funny if we do indeed discover extraterrestrial life, cos the Catholic Church will have to explain things like why Jesus appeared on earth rather than Mars, are Martians going to hell even though they didn't get an opportunity to worship Jesus, etc.

They will most likely form a strategic alliance with some alien religion saying they're the one and the same, maybe ...

dsmythy

Irish Halo wrote: »

They will most likely form a strategic alliance with some alien religion saying they're the one and the same, maybe ...

More likely more intelligent beings than us would have no religion or would set about converting us to whatever religion they do have while wondering if humans are going to hell because xebus didn't appear on Earth.

antodeco

Oh my god!! Mars is an anagram of Arms!! Jesus had arms!!!

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Irish Halo wrote: »

They will most likely form a strategic alliance with some alien religion saying they're the one and the same, maybe ...

They already did that.

http://scotteriology.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/lackoffaith.jpg

http://frafilm.blog.kataweb.it/files/2007/10/pope_palpatine.jpg

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/01/popepalpatine.jpg

Tzetze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ9sJVJMiYM

Captain Darling

I was molested by a marsian dressed as a priest.


Or was that a priest dressed as a martian.

:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

trout

Fair enough ... aliens might exist ... grand.

What I want to know, is do Jedis exist ? Well ... Mr Vatican? Do they ?

Ross_Mahon

Xenu is my homeboy

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Ross_Mahon wrote: »

Xenu is my homeboy

Mace Windu is mine.

aequinoctium

they're trying to steal all of science!

first they plan to celebrate charles darwin (yes, the catholic church) and now they search for ET

antodeco

aequinoctium wrote: »

they're trying to steal all of science!

first they plan to celebrate charles darwin (yes, the catholic church) and now they search for ET

Evening Telegraph????

Thought they'd be more of a Times Reader being honest

Sherifu

'Aliens Are My Brother' - rofl

Did they have a stance on Aliens until now?

Steve

The Vatican hung people who believed the world wasn't flat.
They then tried to hang someone who said the earth actually revolved around the sun.
This behavior went on for quite a while.

I think they're being quite liberal on this one actually.

Cunny-Funt

Sure "God" is an Alien anyway. He's not from Earth is he?

Read what happened to Mary, totally the same as a modern day abduction story. Jesus was a half human - half alien hybrid.

Yeah that and that star in the night was no feckin star.
:pac:

All jokes aside though all that makes about a billion* times more sense then what they believe, and is a billion times more probable too.


& remember kids a billion aint that big a number when you take into consideration the entire freaking UNIVERSE!

haha:D


**edit**

Strangely enough, this is post number 666 for me...

antodeco

Look at Zeitgest!! Its all about space!!

Steve

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

Sure "God" is .........haha:D

That was post #666 - you're screwed......:pac:

Mr. CooL ICE

antodeco wrote: »

Oh my god!! Mars is an anagram of Arms!! Jesus had arms!!!

Holy ****! God is dog backwards. So, if all dogs go to heaven, they must be gathering troops to take heaven back from the antidog!


I for one welcome our... ah forget it

dlofnep

trout wrote: »

What I want to know, is do Jedis exist ? Well ... Mr Vatican? Do they ?

Most valid question I've seen all day.

Steve

dlofnep wrote: »

Most valid question I've seen all day.

The farts farce is strong in this one.

MooseJam

nothing those vatican types say counts for anything sure they believe in all sorts of nonsense

monkeyfudge

LordChessington wrote: »

Holy ****! God is dog backwards. So, if all dogs go to heaven, they must be gathering troops to take heaven back from the antidog!


I for one welcome our... ah forget it

And a binary star system called Sirius is one of our closest neighbours in space. Sirius is also known as the Dog Star. Clearly this is where the alien homeworld can be found.

Dave!

A civilisation consisting solely of dogs?

I for one welcome our new canine overlords...

Calibos

Read about this in the paper today.

He goes on to clarify that Jesus would not have appeared to the aliens because his redemption of our sins and resurrection etc were a unique event blah blah

....................Riiight

So You don't know if aliens actually exist and you don't really know that Jesus existed as the son of god but you have faith he did but you do know that if they both did in fact exist, that you are sure we were the chosen ones and it would only be us who would be visited by Jesus.

God told you this did he?

Even the the most rational Catholic clergy which the Jesuit Vatican scientists and astronomers are renown to be.......well they're still bat sh!t crazy.

Seonad

To think theyre also considering plans to introduce a Vatican credit card....perhaps the aliens will endorse them?

leninbenjamin

trout wrote: »

What I want to know, is do Jedis exist ? Well ... Mr Vatican? Do they ?

yes. or rather they did exist. in the form of samurai. that was what Lucas based his story on was it not?

Fremen

Wasn't there an AH thread recently saying that NASA is set to make an announcement telling us that they've found something big that they've been looking for for 50 years?

Maybe they were nice enough to give the vatican the heads-up so there's no chaos when they announce that they found alien replicons from beyond the moon!

TheDoc

god sent his son jesus to earths inhabitants ove 2000 years ago to send us messages of respect and love etc, and died so we could be accepted back into heaven

could well be aliens werent on a ban.

as much as god etc sounds out of this world, it would be nice to respect others beliefs , some have faith some dont.

I am not a man of faith, or god, but i respect those that are.

I'm also not one for believing that there is life anywhere else, and if there is, it wont be found in my lifetime i dont believe.

and if it is found, by most likely the americans, id shutter to think the consequencies of it all....

randylonghorn

Fremen wrote: »

Wasn't there an AH thread recently saying that NASA is set to make an announcement telling us that they've found something big that they've been looking for for 50 years?

I suspect that might be Dubyah's brain, tbh ...

marco_polo

I see blockbuster gold here.

"The Mission to Mars"

Starring Jeremy Irons as a Spanish Jesuit who is selected to lead the first manned mission to Mars. Robert DeNiro plays a slave hunter who is converted and joins Irons in his mission.

Father Gabriel ascends the mountains of Mars to bring christianity to the natives. He is successful and brings about a golden age among them.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

marco_polo wrote: »

I see blockbuster gold here.

"The Mission to Mars"

Starring Jeremy Irons as a Spanish Jesuit who is selected to lead the first manned mission to Mars. Robert DeNiro plays a slave hunter who is converted and joins Irons in his mission.

Father Gabriel ascends the mountains of Mars to bring christianity to the natives. He is successful and brings about a golden age among them.

And Jean-Michel Jarre doign a futuristic version of "Gabriel's Oboe"?

marco_polo

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

And Jean-Michel Jarre doign a futuristic version of "Gabriel's Oboe"?

I nominate Luc 'Fifth Element' Besson to direct. (No fupin' Chris Tucker though )