Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Take me to your (spiritual) leader

Well, here's something you don't see every day. A Jesuit has written a book on the theological ramifications of sentient life on other worlds:
Would Christian theology be rocked to the core if science someday found a distant orb teeming with little green men, women or other intelligent forms of alien life? Would the church send missionaries to spread the Gospel to aliens? Could aliens even be baptized? Or would they have had their own version of Jesus and have already experienced his universal or galactic plan of salvation?

Curious Catholics need not be space buffs to want answers to these questions and others when they pick up a 48-page booklet by a Vatican astronomer.

I guess it goes without saying that I'll be getting my grubby little hands on this thing sooner or later. Preferrably sooner.
Titled "Intelligent Life in the Universe? Catholic Belief and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life," the pocket-sized booklet is the latest addition to the society's "Explanations Series," which explores Catholic teaching on current social and ethical issues.

Not to be outdone, word has it that Pat Robertson has two volumes on the same subject scheduled for publication any day now, titled Alien Beasts of Abaddon: Kill a Kzinti for Christ and God Hates ET and Unwed Mothers, Too.

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