Abraham's God is Dying.

[Monkey Magic]

The Pope's chief astronomer has conceded other intelligent beings could exist in outer space.

The conclusion has been drawn by scientific experts called in by the Vatican to study the possibility of extraterrestrial life and its implications for the Church.

It has been four centuries since the Catholic Church locked up Galileo for challenging the belief that the Earth was at the centre of the universe.

The Vatican's five-day conference attracted 30 astronomers, physicists and biologists, including non-Catholics.

It was led by Jesuit priest Father Jose Gabriel Funes, an astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory.

Father Funes says the possibility of alien life raises "many philosophical and theological implications" but that the gathering was mainly focused on the scientific perspective.

One of the organisers was Chris Impey, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona.

He says the aim was to assess the most recent research in the burgeoning field of astrobiology - the study of life in the universe

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any christians, jews or muslims in the ranks?

[JW.Frogen]

All the Catholic Church has to do is say God created that Martian or Europan slime too.

Now, if we ever came in contact with life superior to us technologically and they had a different concept of God or none at all then the Catholic Church would have some card shuffling to do.

But that superior life may say God created Earth human slime too.

[boxy]

They see the writing on the wall. This is a preemptive attempt at getting in before outright proof is presented to undermine the current interpretation of "god's word".

It's the beauty of theocracy... reinterpretation to fit the evidence of the day.

[Hebe]

I gather the Vatican Observatory is a bit of a thorn in the side of the Catholic Church. It's run by Jesuits and has its feet in reality. According to my private source standing next to me anyway.

[JW.Frogen]

The Domicans should have taken the Jesuits out long ago.

The Franciscans are kind of a gray area.

The Vatican observatory has the Galileo rule, thy shall not take the lenses cap off.

[Hebe]

Give me a Jesuit any day. At least they have brains.

[Monkey Magic]

templers are popular

The book is based on a document known as the Chinon parchment, found in the Vatican Secret Archives six years ago after years of being incorrectly filed.

The document is a record of the heresy hearings of the Templars before Pope Clement V in the 14th Century.

The official who found the paper says it exonerates the knights entirely.

Prof Barbara Frale, who stumbled across the parchment by mistake, says that it lays bare the rituals and ceremonies over which the Templars were accused of heresy.

In the hearings before Clement V, the knights reportedly admitted spitting on the cross, denying Jesus and kissing the lower back of the man proposing them during initiation ceremonies.

However, many of the confessions were obtained under torture and knights later recanted or tried to claim that their initiation ceremony merely mimicked the humiliation the knights would suffer if they fell into the hands of the Muslim leader Saladin.

The leader of the order, Jacques de Molay, was one of those who confessed to heresy, but later recanted.

He was burned at the stake in Paris in 1314, the same year that the Pope dissolved the order.

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did you know that the vatican has only recently conceded to galileo that the earth is not stationary and does revolve around the sun. in 1992. they are backward.

[JW.Frogen]

Give me a Jesuit any day. At least they have brains.

Yet they still argue Christ is the son of God.

So they must not have intellectual integrity.

Deluded people with brains are the most dangerous brains of all.

[Aussie]

Give me a Jesuit any day. At least they have brains.

Yet they still argue Christ is the son of God.

So they must not have intellectual integrity.

Deluded people with brains are the most dangerous brains of all.

All I can say is that if I were Joseph, Mary would been shown the door, and I would not have walked through palm frond strewn avenues to crap accommodations, all because my Wife (and an Angel......you really have to believe Angels......yes?) said she screwed a ghost. Jo has a lot of explaining to do, the piss weak arsehole. Here is the scene........................

Mary to Joseph: I'm preggers.

Jo: What? Ye have had me sleeping with the donkeys......yes I agree there is one very special to me...................for years, and now you are preggers?

Mary: Yep. It was a spirit.

Jo: A fucking spirit???

Mary: Yeah, sorry.........




.....and then the Bible made it truth.

[JW.Frogen]

LOL!.

But Jehova will be wrathful with you Aussie. I would not drive my cab today if I were you.

And stay away from the Red Sea too for good measure.