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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

ET baptisms? Never say never

Martian bacteria?   (NASA Photo)
Ever wonder whether extra-terrestrials (ETs) have souls?  So does the Vatican.

On Monday morning, Pope Francis happened to mention “that if Martians came to him asking to be baptized he wouldn’t turn them away.” 

According to Antonia Blumberg of The Huffington Post, this is not the first time that higher-ups within the Vatican have alluded to such a possibility.  

Blumberg explained that Vatican scientist Guy Consolmagno has already theorized that aliens have souls.  At the 2010 British Science Festival, Consolmagno announced:   Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul. 

Therefore, if little green beings were to land in Rome tomorrow and ask to be baptized, they too shall receive…  After all, as Pope Francis also pointed out:  Who are we to close doors?

Resources
http://wwrn.org/articles/42408/

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