Hey, why not?

Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens - Yahoo! News

VATICAN CITY - Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday.

The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, was quoted as saying the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.

"How can we rule out that life may have developed elsewhere?" Funes said. "Just as we consider earthly creatures as 'a brother,' and 'sister,' why should we not talk about an 'extraterrestrial brother'? It would still be part of creation."

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Britain releases batch of files on UFO sightings - Yahoo! News

LONDON - The men were air traffic controllers. Experienced, calm professionals. Nobody was drinking. But they were so worried about losing their jobs that they demanded their names be kept off the official report.

No one, they knew, would believe their claim an unidentified flying object landed at the airport they were overseeing in the east of England, touched down briefly, then took off again at tremendous speed. Yet that's what they reported happened at 4 p.m. on April 19, 1984.

The incident is one of hundreds of reported sightings contained in more than 1,000 pages of formerly secret UFO documents being released Wednesday by Britain's National Archives. It is one of the few that was never explained.

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"All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian."

Pat Paulsen for President

The problem comes when you start delving into Chariots of the Gods ideas.

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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Dr. Samuel Johnson

Could you expand on that please?

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"All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian."

Pat Paulsen for President

The belief that aliens exist does not contradict the teachings of God or the church. That is what the pope is saying. The subject is changed when a person believes aliens brought man to earth or something else that does contradict that of the church.

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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Dr. Samuel Johnson

Ok, thanks.

Being non religious generally speaking is helpful in maintaining my beliefs, I guess.

I believe that some, if not all of the subspecies of humans were actually "deposited" here on earth from other places.

Those deposited were generally the undesireables among various alien groups which might go to explaining why we are so cruel and destructive.

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"All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian."

Pat Paulsen for President

lol ..... an interstellar looney bin or maybe a prison for the criminally insane ...... could be.... hell maybe Earth is where they put their "short bus riders" ...... might even be a zoo......

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Definition of political correctness:
A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

I'm politically incorrect and damn well satisfied to be so. Gummer

That's fantastic and that's your view to have.

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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Dr. Samuel Johnson

An inter galactic Australia? Could be.....

Any sane species would certainly be advised to avoid us.

Maybe Earth is a quarantine?

"Your species is like a virus" (Agent Smith, Matrix)

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"If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you." -- Billy Wilder

"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied." -- Otto Von Bismark

I could see why aliens want to avoid us. we already have xenophobia for other humans, imagine who we would treat non-earthlings.

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Freedom is SEXY

Isn't that like one of the core beliefs of Scientology?