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Catholics officially believe in aliens, and that we should save them (if they weren’t visited by Jesus) Jews wouldn’t care either. Don’t know about Muslims, bu
by local_crmdgeon 3y ago
Catholics officially believe in aliens, and that we should save them (if they weren’t visited by Jesus)
Jews wouldn’t care either. Don’t know about Muslims, but it’s not threatening to the other Abrahamic religions
- dragonwriter 3y ago> Catholics officially believe in aliens, A definitive position on the existence of aliens is not part of the Catholic faith. But, the church admits the possibility and church institutions have done some explorations about what the implications of such contact might be, and how Catholic doctrine might apply to different possibilities.
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoApparently you are correct! https://www.catholic.com/qa/whats-the-catholic-position-on-the-existence-of-extra-terrestrial-life https://www.catholic.com/qa/whats-the-catholic-position-on-t...
- CamperBob2 3y agoCatholics officially believe in aliens, and that we should save them (if they weren’t visited by Jesus) Reminds me of the punch line to an amusing first-contact cartoon, one that makes the (unstated) previous line easy enough to guess: "Yeah, he comes by every couple of years. We gave him a nice box of chocolates when he first visited. What'd you guys do?"
- edgyquant 3y agoMuslims recite that Allah is “lord of all the worlds” every day. Think they’ll be fine. This is true of every religion I think, it’s only the non religious projecting that state it would “upend widely held beliefs”