Rome salivates at Kepler. New destination for missionary priests and nuns

TheLastMohican

Not content with converting all humans ......... the Catholic Church looks to Kepler-452 to continue it's heroic plans for universal domination.
However, the locals might find The Book Of Genesis a little worrying. If it took God 7 days to make this place, how long to make billions of stars, earths etc?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3184769/We-not-says-Vatican-Pope-s-chief-astronomer-says-alien-life-exists-unlikely-visited-Jesus.html

Robsweezie

Saw missionary and just thought..
..giggidy

I'm going to hell.

TheLastMohican

Robsweezie wrote: »

Saw missionary and just thought..
..giggidy

I'm going to hell.

Mind out of the gutter. Rinse mouth with slightly salty water and then get stuck into a Wibbly Wobbly Wonder!

diomed

I predict ..... few posts

fryup

lets make a few home rules before we get there....

top of the list should be....

NO RELIGION

Mr. CooL ICE

fryup wrote: »

lets make a few home rules before we get there....

top of the list should be....

NO RELIGION

2nd on the list:

NO SELFIE STICKS

hardCopy

The discovery of intelligent life does not mean there's another Jesus. The Incarnation of the son of God is a unique event in the history of humanity of the universe.

The aliens must all be Jewish so.

Not a NSA agent

they must be getting excited of the idea of new forms of sex God can hate.

The_Valeyard

I don't see the problem?


They are saying there is a strong possibility of life on other planets.


Makes sense.

DeadHand

The OP is misrepresentative nonsense. Nothing in that article about missionarys or religious dominance.

The Vatican's chief astronomer came out and said there probably are alien civilisations in the universe that never met Jesus but we probably will never meet them. It's actually a refreshingly progressive, rational stance for the Vatican to take on the issue.

Not that that will get in the way of the inevitable, tiresome Church bashing we'll see on this thread.

Avatar MIA

TheLastMohican wrote: »

to make this place, how long to make billions of stars, earths etc?

Nah, She sorted all that out on DAY THREE (best read in the voice of the Big Brother announcer)

GENESIS [1:16] God made the two great lights - the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night - and the stars.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

OP, don't let the facts get in the way of a good opportunity for a go at the church.

Fr_Dougal

TheLastMohican wrote: »

Not content with converting all humans ......... the Catholic Church looks to Kepler-452 to continue it's heroic plans for universal domination.
However, the locals might find The Book Of Genesis a little worrying. If it took God 7 days to make this place, how long to make billions of stars, earths etc?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3184769/We-not-says-Vatican-Pope-s-chief-astronomer-says-alien-life-exists-unlikely-visited-Jesus.html

Jesus he knows me.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Jesus he knows me.

And what you have been up to!

TheLastMohican

DeadHand wrote: »

The OP is misrepresentative nonsense. Nothing in that article about missionarys or religious dominance.

The Vatican's chief astronomer came out and said there probably are alien civilisations in the universe that never met Jesus but we probably will never meet them. It's actually a refreshingly progressive, rational stance for the Vatican to take on the issue.

Not that that will get in the way of the inevitable, tiresome Church bashing we'll see on this thread.

One of the main tenets of the CC is spreading the faith. And religious dominance is the goal. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Now, if they refused to try and convert Kepler .......... it would seem a tad unChristian. Not to mention racist.

A bit oversensitive droning on about church bashing. Can one not question anything of a religious aspect without being labelled so.

I take it you are a card-carrying aficionado then? If so, your bias tilts your post. As it did Kepler's thinking re the Creator.

DeadHand

TheLastMohican wrote: »

One of the main tenets of the CC is spreading the faith. And religious dominance is the goal. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Now, if they refused to try and convert Kepler .......... it would seem a tad unChristian. Not to mention racist.

A bit oversensitive droning on about church bashing. Can one not question anything of a religious aspect without being labelled so.

I take it you are a card-carrying aficionado then? If so, your bias tilts your post. As it did Kepler's thinking re the Creator.

You can question anything you want just don't talk through your arse and expect not to be pulled up on it.

The astronomer made no mention of conversion, of missionaries or of religious dominance. These are all your own additions. You just took a story of a Vatican academic being being comparatively reasonable for a change and dishonestly tried to twist it into something negative to try to get yet another, lazy Church bashing thread going.

It isn't brave and it isn't edgy. It's tired and it's boring.

TheLastMohican

DeadHand wrote: »

You can question anything you want just don't talk through your arse and expect not to be pulled up on it.

The astronomer made no mention of conversion, of missionaries or of religious dominance. These are all your own additions. You just took a story of a Vatican academic being being comparatively reasonable for a change and dishonestly tried to twist it into something negative to try to get yet another, lazy Church bashing thread going.

It isn't brave and it isn't edgy. It's tired and it's boring.

Has someone forced you to read it? And why have your sensibilities/piseogs been upset?

DeadHand

TheLastMohican wrote: »

Has someone forced you to read it? And why have your sensibilities/piseogs been upset?

Nope, I'd happily ignore the drivel you write if you weren't being grossly unfair.

You were just being fundamentally dishonest and I and a few others pulled you up on it, that's all.

I have no dog (or god) in the fight.

Barely There

DeadHand wrote: »

The Vatican's chief astronomer came out and said there probably are alien civilisations in the universe that never met Jesus

I've never met the guy and I'm from Earth.

lazybones32

Misleading tagline but anyway...the Vatican Observatory has maintained its belief in the probability of alien life forms existing for many's the year.
Congratulations: you've learned* what many others knew for years.



* discovered would have been more appropriate.

Keplar240B

Thank your magic elsewhere holy man.

Avatar MIA

TheLastMohican wrote: »

Not to mention racist.

Strictly speaking, no. Alienist if that exists (and my spelling wasn't corrected so it might be a thing! )

feargale

Same old, same old.

Birneybau

Covered already in this amazing book, 'The Book Of Strange New Things' by Michel Faber.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/26/book-of-strange-new-things-michel-faber-review

TwoShedsJackson

Read The Sparrow for an interesting take on the subject of exporting your philosophy/religion to another planet.