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- buffyangel108, on 05/16/2008, -3/+61The Martian Pope ain't gonna like this...
- ferrell, on 05/16/2008, -13/+65Hold the presses!!!
Are you trying to tell me that the Vatican now believes in strange otherworldly creatures, for whose existence not a scrap of evidence exists?
Thats crazy! - pablo0713, on 05/16/2008, -11/+40Free from Original Sin? Well, if that were the case, these aliens would be crawling around in mud completely unaware of their own existence.
- justjeninsf, on 05/16/2008, -4/+33Tom Cruise is totally stoked right now.
- str3ama, on 05/16/2008, -14/+40Aliens reply back "We made God in our image."
- inactive, on 05/16/2008, -5/+30Ironic how this doctrine 300 years ago would have had you on the rack with some guy breaking broom sticks off in your ass...
- chillmandan, on 05/16/2008, -4/+19In all fairness, 300 years ago, if you told a scientists we descended from primates, you would probably be laughed at by most of the scientific community.
- takamalak, on 05/16/2008, -6/+21We Diggers are more tolerant of Catholics because they don't seems to take themselves and their religion too seriously. they are also more likely to be open to scientific reasoning.
- inactive, on 05/16/2008, -1/+14Or they can just be massive swarms obeying only to the queen, kinda like the buggers in Ender's game.
- 28dayslater, on 05/16/2008, -1/+13If aliens exist, that makes us aliens too. Weird enough that the we are suspended in space on a spinning rock that is being heated by a giant ball of fire, and little reason I can deduce for our existence other than polluting and destroying the environment, I got to worry about this ***** now too?
- praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -4/+13The same people who see UFOs see Jesus on toast.
- inactive, on 05/16/2008, -5/+14i for one welcome our new alien overlords.. i mean brothers
- curtisag, on 05/16/2008, -0/+9US Presidents have seen UFOs, along with many other reliable witnesses. And UFO doesn't necessarily mean alien, it's just unexplained.
- inactive, on 05/16/2008, -0/+8Talon, you make a good point. Your evidence pretty much talks for itself. I'm going to stop being a godless atheist who believes in evolution and devote my life to magic and God's E-Z Bake Oven.
- Screwy1138, on 05/16/2008, -2/+10The Catholic Church does not accept Genesis as a literal interpretation of creation. We believe the earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old. We believe evolution is a sound theory (it's even taught in most Catholic schools). The Catholic Church is very scholarly and follows science closely as a study of what God created. The Church doesn't presume to know everything God created.
- inactive, on 05/16/2008, -0/+7I don't think anyone knows what your post is supposed to mean.
- bosssmiley, on 05/16/2008, -2/+9Catholics have to be accepting of aliens. I mean, the Galgameks have been part of the church for centuries now.
South Park wouldn't lie to me! - inactive, on 05/16/2008, -0/+7Do they believe in Christ? How about God?
Makes them Christian in my book. - RealmDown, on 05/16/2008, -0/+7Yeah, you have pay good money for that now in Vegas.
- elamr, on 05/16/2008, -1/+8Aliens are cool, but GAYS aren't?!
- methos75, on 05/16/2008, -1/+7It would be funny if aliens arrived, and took all the Scientologist as slaves for being boobs.
- dafragsta, on 05/16/2008, -4/+10The pope is hedging his bets. God forbid aliens come and blow our conceptions of creation and the laws of physics out of the water without the Catholic Church having an insurance plan.
- PdxPhoenix, on 05/16/2008, -0/+6Really?
Islam has the Sunni & the Shia.
Judaism has Orthodox (both Modern Orthodox & Haredi Judaism, which includes the Hasidic Judaism), Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, Jewish Renewal, & Humanistic Judaism. Just to name a few.
Then the Christians have Roman Catholics & similar, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Protestants, Methodist, Anglican Church, Pentecostal, Evangelicals, Anglican, Episcopal, Baptists, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, Jehovah's Witnesses, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Seventh Day Adventists, Disciples of Christ, & Ecumenical; just for starts.
I think that indicates that they all change their beliefs at some point to some degree. - Talphin, on 05/16/2008, -0/+6Are you retarded? Judaism came first, then from that some Jews found a prophet named Jesus forming Christianity, and then after that, some of those Christians found a new prophet named Mohamad, thus forming Islam. The same is true of Mormonism. Whenever religions find something new to believe in, some of the stubborn ones reject the new idea and remain the same, while the others typically begin an entirely new belief structure (or religion)
- shutaro, on 05/16/2008, -0/+6Mmmm... Sacrilicous...
- mongo25, on 05/16/2008, -3/+9They can't be without original sin. Clearly the Vatican hasn't seen E.T. Those gluttonous aliens pound Reece's Pieces like it's their spouse.
- Weaselski, on 05/16/2008, -3/+9weird times, huh? first evolution, now extraterrestrial life. i'm kind of impressed w/ the progressive ideas coming out of the vatican. now, how about some endorsement for contraceptives? or is that asking too much. not even going to comment on the other thing
- Screwy1138, on 05/16/2008, -0/+5Catholics are by no means fundamentalist Christians. We preach that the bible should not be taken literally. We accept evolution. Fundamentalist Christians hate Catholics.
- Screwy1138, on 05/16/2008, -4/+9Wait.... can't the same thing be said about science? There used to be 5 elements right, earth, wind, water, air, and metal. Science once thought the earth was flat. Science once thought the earth was the center of the universe. Science once thought the Sun was the center of the universe. Science once thought Pluto was a planet. I find it very hypocritical to accuse the Church of changing its beliefs based on new learned information. Sure we're slow about it, we like to be non-reactive. But accusing us of changing our beliefs based on the observation of the universe? That's so insane I'm beginning to wonder why I bother to respond at all.
The Catholic Church takes a very scholarly view of the world. We don't blindly take the Bible literally. We believe evolution is a sound theory. We learn. The Church has scientists and frequently meets with scientists from outside the Church. Heck, the Church has a good relationship with Iran because we appreciate Iran's scholarly approach to religion. - Screwy1138, on 05/16/2008, -1/+6The Pope in a speech a few months ago said that it is a serious sin to cause harm to the Earth through pollution or unsustainable behavior. Humans are stewards (not owners) of the Earth, it is our responsibility to take care of it.
Or... are you just grasping at straws to bash the Church? If a prominent athiest scientist came out and said Aliens might exist, would you have responded the same? - Talphin, on 05/16/2008, -0/+5Islam also has it's different versions. Ahmadiyya, Shi'a, Sufism and Sunni amongst the most known. Judaism also has it's different denominations: Orthodox, Reform, Conservative, Hasidic and Kabbalah to name a few.
Christianity is by and large the worst of them all, but you can bet your bottom dollar, where there is a religion, there are bound to be several different versions of it.
This is not to mention that there are over 10,000 different religions in the world, excluding their different "versions". - Jambi, on 05/16/2008, -0/+5Wrong. That's what certain groups of evangelical protestants believe. Catholics just believe that they're technically practicing cannibalism every time they take their communion.
- tjsgigante, on 05/16/2008, -0/+5If Adam and Eve hadn't eaten the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, they would still be there, living in their state of innocence, like little children--and we would not be here.
The Fall was necessary to the rest of humanity to exist.
THANKS ADAM AND EVE! - tgunner, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4According to Catholic rule, being gay isn't a problem; the problem comes when you act on homosexuality. They want you to abstain from gay sex and the like if you are to remain a participating Catholic.
- stealthc, on 05/16/2008, -4/+8I don't know what the Pope is so worried about. My Christian faith is already compatible with whatever new things are discovered.
- Talphin, on 05/16/2008, -12/+16And here you get to whitness first hand how every religion is formed. 20 years from now, what the pope is saying now about aliens will become a very serious part of the religion if it sticks. It might even cause the church to divide (yet again) into a whole new branch, where you will have the Catholic alien believers, and the Catholic alien non-believers. They might even have wars in the distant future.
The bottom line is, this is how religion has always worked. They make ***** up as they go, and every now and then when forced into a corner, change their beliefs. So why believe any of it at all? Why waste your time? - shermanthetank, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4Dugg for asking an honest, curious question about religion instead of mocking what you don't understand. And, no, I'm not a Christian.
- inactive, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4As soon as you (and the Pope) admit the universe is billions of years old, evolution happened, and that there's no evidence for a "God" or "Gods."
That's when I'll start to believe that your church is adapting.
Also, admit that you stole Yule and Easter from the pagans. And admit that Mithra is the same story as your Christ, but it pre-dates the christ fable by a few hundred years.
Once I see that in writing stamped by the Pope I'll believe that you're adapting to science. - JohnGalt72, on 05/16/2008, -1/+5Leave it to the Vatican to claim dibs on the Aliens' religous preference.
I'm going to assume the Aliens are Muslim.
*rolls eyes* - Hetman, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4Just so you know. There has been three mass extinctions since the beggining of time. And they have had nothing to do with humans. I am not saying that we should pollute. Becuase in the end it is going to hurt us. But the idea of destroying the environment is kind of absurd. It has been destroyed three times already and each time it has came back swarming with life.
- Testiculese, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4Islam hasn't...and you can see what that has done. Christiantiy has changed *****. It's still irrelevant to reality, but they're much more progressive than Islam. Judism..don't know, don't care.
- serif69, on 05/16/2008, -1/+5Not anymore. Scientology bases their practices on those of the Catholic church in the Middle Ages.
- Talphin, on 05/16/2008, -1/+5The difference is, religion claims to be led by an omniscient, omnipotent being who is claimed to know all. The words written in religious writings are usually "written in stone" so to speak, because they supposedly came from a divine being. This means that IF religious beliefs are based on "God's" word, then it cannot be changed, because "God" knows all. But when you have someone who claims to be "talking for God", all bets are off.
Science is a learning process, and does not wait for robed madmen to make their decisions for them. Science is based on the best current evidence, and not on some ramblings from some raving lunatic who claims to be talking to God... - RealmDown, on 05/16/2008, -1/+5As many times as you keep reading it ?
- RudeTurnip, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4Don't worry, the NYPD picked up where the Church left off.
- WriterSD, on 05/16/2008, -1/+5Umm, no.
- elhaf, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4That's just nuts now. Look, they released Galilleo's papers in the 1700's. They revisited them in the 90's, to see if the church had err'ed. It had, but so had Galilleo. It's not a cut-and-dried situation, and neither are any of the others. The crusades and the Spanish inquisition were as much about global power and empire as they were about religion.
http://www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Issues/Gal ... - inactive, on 05/16/2008, -1/+5Don't forget that when Jesus was claiming to be the son of God, there were tons and tons of other guys claiming to be the children or spokesperson for their gods. There were lots of little cults springing up around the time Christianity was formed. Christianity just found a way to incorporate them all. It's more of a parasite than a religion.
- inactive, on 05/16/2008, -0/+3Religion is great for small minded people who are afraid of being nothing. Too afraid of the unknown. Afraid of questions that can't be answered. Someone invented the best answer at the time "A magical creature made everything the way it is."
News flash: You were nothing before you were born. You'll be nothing after you die. You get a few years in between to do something with your life. Don't waste it trying to make some imaginary friend like you. - HeroicLife, on 05/16/2008, -0/+3Does this mean that the taboo committed by Adam & Eve only applies on genetic grounds? (The "sin" gene?) The Vatican appears to believe that it is perfectly fine to condemn an entire species to an eternity of torment for the thought-crime of a single individual, but condemning the entire universe "could" be taking things a little too far. I am sure that sentient beings everywhere are apprehensively waiting for the Pope’s final ruling.
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