Aliens are our brothers in Christ
The Vatican has announced that belief in extraterrestrials - even the smart, ravenous and highly lethal kind - does not contradict faith in God. While I could make any number of snarky remarks about the relative uptodateness of Catholic thought, Galileo, Bruno, the Inquisition, etc., I will simply content myself with noting that Monty Python knew this was going to happen a quarter century ago, and depicted alens coexisting with messiahs in Life of Brian.
The Vatican astronomer noted that denying that there is no life anywhere else in the universe is putting limits on the (presumably unlimited) creativity of God. Sadly, the article does not go into more interesting territory - I'd like to see what Vatican policy is regarding missionary efforts to aliens, and whether the holy mother Church feels that the anal probing greys have souls. Cause, if they abduct me, I'm killing them sumsabitches. But I don't want to commit a sin.
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Sssooo...just so I'm clear...the Vatican's position is that belief in biological life on other worlds is at least as plausible as belief in an omnipotent, omniscient invisible sky fairy whose personal will is singularly responsible for the creation of, and continued existence of, every particle of matter in the universe?
That's a right bit of progress, there.
Not that it's as plausible,…
Not that it's as plausible, just not incompatible with. I don't think that the Church was trying to weigh in on the likelihood of aliens - just trying to make lots of anal-probed midwestern Catholics a little more comfortable.