The XVI-Files: I Want To Believe
Posted on | May 14, 2008 at 7:17 am | 2 Comments
Wow, the Catholic Church is getting more and more enlightened all the time: Vatican: It’s OK to believe in aliens. Of course, this is coming from a Jesuit, and everyone knows they’re not real Catholics. They’re like the Star Trek “fans” who go to conventions but don’t dress up like Klingons or Vulcans. (I kid, but one of my oldest and best friends is a Jesuit and he’s certainly not your father’s Father. Or your father’s Brother. Whatever.)
Quote: The Bible “is not a science book,” Funes said, adding that he believes the Big Bang theory is the most “reasonable” explanation for the creation of the universe. The theory says the universe began billions of years ago in the explosion of a single, super-dense point that contained all matter.
Hmmm… next thing you know they’re going to be teaching evolution, supporting gay marriage, and acknowledging a woman’s right to choose. You can have your faith and eat it too. Take that, Golden Compass. This is a new Catholic Church, and not just because of the guitar playing during the services (which has been going on for… err…. 30 years or so). So, sign up now! Or come back, all you lapsed types. The coffee’s better than Starbucks and the wafers are low-fat.
Latre.
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2 Responses to “The XVI-Files: I Want To Believe”
May 14th, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
The church is getting more radical all the time, why just about ten years ago they reached the conclusion that Galileo was right, the Earth is round and the Earth revolves around the sun not the other way around.
A lot of the Deists in the Enlightenment era believed that a supreme being created Earth, then rather than stay here and run things went on to create many other worlds. Could this be the Catholic church’s enlightenment?
May 14th, 2008 @ 8:50 pm
The Jesuits run a full real scholarly astronomical observatory. I can’t imagine the Southern Baptists doing that.