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Vestonika -> RE: Vatican says belief in aliens is not a sin (5/23/2008 10:31:35 AM)
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The vatican has NOT issued such a statement. A 45 year-old priest has made some speculations based strictly on his own opinion in an interview. It takes far more than a single priest to establish or change Catholic dogma, doctrine, and discipline. Nice try.
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From Breitbart.com
Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens
May 13 12:48 PM US/Eastern
VATICAN CITY (AP) - 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.
From Wikipedia:
Fr. José Gabriel Funes, S.J. (born January 31, 1963 in Córdoba), an Argentine Jesuit priest and astronomer, is the current director of the Vatican Observatory. He has a master's degree in Astronomy from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina and a doctorate from the University of Padua in Italy. He has also a bachelor's degree in philosophy from University del Salvador in Argentina and a bachelor's degree in theology from Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. A member of the Society of Jesus, he was ordained a priest in 1995. He joined the Vatican Observatory as a researcher in 2000, and was named its director on August 19, 2006 replacing Fr. George Coyne.
In an interview in May 2008 [1]he stated that the possible existence of intelligent extraterrestrials did not contradict church teaching[2][3] and ruling out the existence of aliens would be like "putting limits" on God's creative freedom. [4] He has speculated that such alien life forms could even be “free from Original Sin … [remaining] in full friendship with their creator.” [5]
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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611
The Vatican recently said that having a belief that life exists on other planets does not contradict faith in God.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90KSE100&show_article=1
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