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throw0101a on Sept 19, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Aliens and the Enlightenment

> The idea that other worlds would be your deal breaker on Christianity is strange.

"Vatican Holds Conference on Extraterrestrial Life":

* https://www.universetoday.com/44713/vatican-holds-conference...

* https://phys.org/news/2009-11-vatican-extra-terrestrial-life...

* https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican-discusses-extraterres...

See also the book Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?, co-authored by the director of the Vatican Observatory (Br. Guy Consolmagno, SJ):

* https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/228109/would-you-ba...

boomboomsubban on Sept 19, 2024 [–]

If only Horace Walpole had lived another 212 years and been Catholic. Then he might not have considered them irreconcilable.

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