Vatican to hold press conference on aliens, migrants of the third kind.

Pope Francis asked: "If, for example, tomorrow an expedition of Martians came, and some of them came to us, here…Martians, right? Green, with that long nose and big ears, just like children paint them…And one says, ‘But I want to be baptized!’ What would happen?”

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Diotrephes · 70-79, M

If the Martians told the Pope that they wated to be circumcised, how would he answer them? If they asked him to throw a couple of their virgins into a volcano would he do it?

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Diotrephes You are asking impossible questions. There are no Martians. Science is peddling fiction. We are all there is.

Do you really think we can step out of ourselves and go anywhere?

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@sree251

You are asking impossible questions. There are no Martians. Science is peddling fiction. We are all there is.

Do you really think we can step out of ourselves and go anywhere?

You are the one who introduced the Pope and the Martians.

There is sure to be life on lots of planets throughout the universe just like there is life on all of the continents on Earth. But the distances between such planets are so great that we will ever know where life exists. Remember, humans have only been intelligent for about 100 years.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Diotrephes

You are the one who introduced the Pope and the Martians.

I did. The Pope and the Martians is a hilarious situation. Even as a kid (a Catholic), I had always wondered if alien life forms knew about Jesus. I intuited something bizarre, a disconnect between us (created by God) and aliens from another universe.

Now, I know. There are no aliens, no other life forms. There is only me. You are another me. The Pope is another me also.

There is sure to be life on lots of planets throughout the universe just like there is life on all of the continents on Earth. But the distances between such planets are so great that we will ever know where life exists. Remember, humans have only been intelligent for about 100 years.

Everything you see, all those twinkling stars in the night sky, is part of you. Wow, I wish you can get out of your mindset created by science.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@sree251

The Pope and the Martians is a hilarious situation.

Not if you are serious about the meanings of innocence and the state of grace.

You should read James Blish' A Case of Conscience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Case_of_Conscience

sree251 · 41-45, M

@ninalanyon

Not if you are serious about the meanings of innocence and the state of grace.

James' story is of a Jesuit who investigates an alien race that has no religion yet has a perfect, innate sense of morality, a situation which conflicts with Catholic teaching.

My garden is filled with trees, birds, hares, and wild flowers. They have no religion yet have a perfect, innate sense of morality. We are a race with religion and no grace.