Archive of Articles Detailing Vatican “Space Brothers” Intelligent Alien Life Announcement
Vatican: Aliens created by God could exist, says Church astronomer
Castel Gandolfo, 14 May (AKI) - The Vatican’s chief astronomer has said that there is no conflict between believing in God and the possibility that life exists on other planets.
“Why should we not talk about an extraterrestrial brother, just as we consider earthly creatures as a brother, and sister? It would still be part of creation,” said Father Jose Gabriel Funes in an interview with the Vatican’s official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano.
Funes interview was part of a report in the paper entitled “The extraterrestrial is my brother.”
He outlined how the search for forms of extraterrestrial life are not a contradiction to a belief in God.
Funes is also the director of the Vatican observatory in the town of Castel Gandolfo, 30 kilometres south-east from the Italian capital Rome where the Pope’s summer residence is located.
During the interview, the astronomer said that the Big Bang theory is the best and most reasonable explanation for the creation of the universe and does not contradict faith.
“The Big Bang theory remains, in my opinion, the best explanation for the origins of the universe that we have, from a scientific point of view.”
“The universe is not infinite. It is big, but it is finite because it has an age of 14,000 billion years according to our most recent research.”
Funes also believes that “The bible is not a science book,” and that God is the creator of the universe and that humans are “the sons of a kind father, who has a plan of love for us.”
The Catholic church once branded astronomer Galileo Galilei and philosopher Giordano Bruno ‘heretics’ for their views on astronomy.
The observatory in Castel Gandolfo was built by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 to respond to claims that the church was opposed to scientific progress.
It became famous, when in 1969 Pope Paul VI saw, with the help of powerful Vatican telescopes, the landing on the moon of American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin.
A second Vatican observatory already exists in the US state of Arizona, atop Mount Graham which is also considered a sacred place for native American Indians.
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The Vatican’s chief astronomer says there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of “extraterrestrial brothers” perhaps more evolved than humans.
“In my opinion this possibility (of life on other planets) exists,” said Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, a 45-year-old Jesuit priest who is head of the Vatican Observatory and a scientific adviser to Pope Benedict.
“How can we exclude that life has developed elsewhere,” he told the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano in an interview in its Tuesday-Wednesday edition, explaining that the large number of galaxies with their own planets made this possible.
Asked if he was referring to beings similar to humans or even more evolved than humans, he said: “Certainly, in a universe this big you can’t exclude this hypothesis.”
In the interview headlined “The extraterrestrial is my brother,” he said he saw no conflict between belief in such beings and faith in God.
“Just as there is a multiplicity of creatures on earth, there can be other beings, even intelligent, created by God. This is not in contrast with our faith because we can’t put limits on God’s creative freedom,” he said.
“Why can’t we speak of a ‘brother extraterrestrial’? It would still be part of creation,” he said.
Funes, who runs the observatory which is based south of Rome and in Arizona, held out the possibility that the human race might actually be the “lost sheep” of the universe.
“There could be (other beings) who remained in full friendship with their creator,” he said.
THE “BIG BANG?”
Christians have sometimes been at odds with scientists over whether the Bible should be read literally and issues such as creationism versus evolution have been hotly debated for decades.
The Inquisition condemned astronomer Galileo in the 17th century for insisting that the earth revolved around the sun. The Catholic Church did not rehabilitate him until 1992.
Funes said dialogue between faith and science could be improved if scientists learned more about the Bible and the Church kept more up to date with scientific progress.
Funes, an Argentine, said he believed as an astronomer that the most likely explanation for the start of the universe was “the big bang,” the theory that it sprang into existence from dense matter billions of years ago.
But he said this was not in conflict with faith in God as a creator. “God is the creator. There is a sense to creation. We are not children of an accident …,” he said.
“As an astronomer, I continue to believe that God is the creator of the universe and that we are not the product of something casual but children of a good father who has a project of love in mind for us,” he said.
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Enthusiasts say ‘Amen’ as Vatican allows alien belief
Word that the Vatican had declared devout Catholics free to believe in aliens traveled at warp speed this week, around the globe and, quite possibly, to points unknown.
Earthbound theologians and astrophysicists debated it, online “Jedi Council” forums erupted in geeky chatter, and many who have long dared to believe that life exists beyond our terrestrial confines felt some small measure of vindication.
“If you’re sitting in a room that’s totally dark and you can’t see anything, and the door is cracked just a millimeter to let a little light in, that can be extremely useful,” said Peter Davenport, head of the National UFO Reporting Center in Washington state.
In other words, in the lonely world of alien believers, visitors are always welcome.
The Catholic Church has never been considered anti-alien. In fact, Catholic priests and scholars have written about the issue of extraterrestrial life since at least the Middle Ages. What made this week’s statement significant, several experts say, is that the comments by Rev. Jose Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory, were printed in the Vatican’s own newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. That gave his words a certain papal heft.
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Vatican star watcher says aliens may be out there
The Catholic Church’s top astronomer has said there is no contradiction between the one true faith and believing in aliens.
The statement will surely spark speculation that the Church knows more than it’s letting on and is preparing the world for some pretty big revelations, or at least laying the groundwork for mass conversions of extra-terrestrials once we’ve tracked them down.
The paper quoted him saying: “It is possible, even if until now, we have no proof. But certainly in such a big universe this hypothesis cannot be excluded.”
“This is not in contradiction with our faith, because we cannot establish limits to God’s creative freedom,” Funes continued. “To say it with St Francis, if we can consider some earthly creatures as ‘brothers’ or ’sisters’, why could we not speak of a ‘brother alien’? He would also belong to the creation.”
Funes even suggested that alien beings might be free of some of the earthly burdens that drag down we poor benighted humans. Not gravity, carnal pleasures or mortgages, of course, but good old original sin. “In that way, assuming that there would be other intelligent beings, we could not say that they need redemption. They could have remained in full friendship with the Creator.”
But if aliens were sinners – and let’s face it, supposed visitors to this planet have pulled some pretty heinous stunts on earthly beings, from humans to cattle – Funes said they “in some way, would have the chance to enjoy God’s mercy, just as it has happened with us human beings”.
Thought-provoking stuff. Just as interesting will be the reaction of the Vatican proper to Funes’ comments. Popes have had a turbulent relationship with astronomers in the past. While John Paul II had a pretty indulgent attitude towards the Vatican observatory and science in general, the current incumbent on the throne of St Peter is thought to have a more reactionary attitude towards science and the like, to the extent of voicing support for intelligent design.
Whatever the current regime’s attitude towards astronomy, Funes mounted a solid defence of his discipline, telling the paper: “Astronomy has a profound human value. It is a science that opens the heart and the mind. It helps us to put our lives, our hopes, our problems in the right perspective.”
It has also made for some lively discussions between liberal and conservative theologians. Rev. Christopher Corbally, vice director of the Vatican Observatory, said he has been bombarded with e-mail from colleagues pondering whether God could have created more than one world and whether other beings could be granted redemption via a Christ-like savior.
Chaining God?
If God created human beings in his own image, how could there be others who don’t look like us? Little green men, Corbally noted, certainly do not fit the popular image of God.
“It’s a fun way to catch people’s imagination,” he said jubilantly. “How wonderful it would be to have other life beyond our own world, because it would show how God’s creation just flows out without abandon.
“We are always trying to restrict God’s creativity, putting theological difficulties in the way. But I don’t think God bothers with theological difficulties.”
Some human beings, on the other hand, can be a bit literal when interpreting the teachings of their faiths. Proof of that can be found in the Puritanical pudding of the Salem witch trials in 1692, not to mention countless history books or even today’s headlines. Many a faithful soul today would be aghast at talk of other forms of intelligent life.
“Any kind of literalist in Christianity would be barring these sorts of beliefs,” said Thomas O’Brien, a professor of religious studies at DePaul University. “If you were to go to some fundamentalist Christian churches, you’d hear some pastors say belief in UFOs is tantamount to a non-belief in Jesus Christ.”
Such pooh-poohing of cosmic possibilities runs quite counter to this week’s comments in the Vatican Observatory. Funes said that to not believe life exists beyond our planet would be to “set limits on the creative liberty of God.”
As Rev. Thomas O’Meara, a visiting theology professor at Boston College, puts it: “If you have a mature view of God, God can do what God wants.”
So the question becomes: Will this declaration from the Vatican be of any help to those who truly believe in visiting spacecraft and worlds beyond our own?
“Religion does play a big part in the UFO phenomenon,” said Julie Shuster, director of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, N.M., the shrine for alien enthusiasts. “A lot of people feel it’s a very demonic thing. They’ll come with a family member, but they won’t set foot in the door because they don’t believe in any of it, and don’t think they should.”
Not seeing, but believing
Still, a sudden bump in the 160,000 visitors the center gets each year isn’t expected. And Shuster sounded a bit skeptical of why the Vatican — which, she understands, has “a wide array of books on UFOs” — picked this particular time to bring up aliens.
“Maybe they felt that, for whatever reason, the timing is right,” Shuster posited.
So what’s next? A canonical embrace of ghosts, psychic powers, fairies and, perhaps, the Easter Bunny?
Turns out that’s not necessary.
“There are no problems with ghosts and the paranormal because a lot of the personages that populate the cosmic world of Catholicism are precisely those kinds of figures,” said O’Brien, the DePaul professor. “So there’s nothing against that kind of belief.”
In fact, O’Brien and other experts agree that the Catholic faith — and many others, for that matter — is based not on things a person can’t believe in, but on the things a person must believe in.
So believe what you wish. As long as you buy into the basic tenets of your religion, the sky, or in this case the universe, is the limit.
Vatican star watcher says aliens may be out there | The Register
Vatican: Aliens Could Exist
A story in Vatican newspaper is causing a stir in both the Catholic and scientific communities.
An official at the Vatican says aliens could exist.
Nearly 400 years ago, the Catholic church didn’t take it to well when astronomers had theory’s about the universe.
But now, the head of the Vatican observatory is making statements that some may say are out of this world.
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Vatican: It’s OK to believe in aliens
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.”
In the interview by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Funes said that such a notion “doesn’t contradict our faith” because aliens would still be God’s creatures. Ruling out the existence of aliens would be like “putting limits” on God’s creative freedom, he said.
The interview, headlined “The extraterrestrial is my brother,” covered a variety of topics including the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and science, and the theological implications of the existence of alien life.
Funes said science, especially astronomy, does not contradict religion, touching on a theme of Pope Benedict XVI, who has made exploring the relationship between faith and reason a key aspect of his papacy.
The Bible “is not a science book,” Funes said, adding that he believes the Big Bang theory is the most “reasonable” explanation for the creation of the universe. The theory says the universe began billions of years ago in the explosion of a single, super-dense point that contained all matter.
But he said he continues to believe that “God is the creator of the universe and that we are not the result of chance.”
Funes urged the church and the scientific community to leave behind divisions caused by Galileo’s persecution 400 years ago, saying the incident has “caused wounds.”
In 1633 the astronomer was tried as a heretic and forced to recant his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun. Church teaching at the time placed Earth at the center of the universe.
“The church has somehow recognized its mistakes,” he said. “Maybe it could have done it better, but now it’s time to heal those wounds and this can be done through calm dialogue and collaboration.”
Pope John Paul declared in 1992 that the ruling against Galileo was an error resulting from “tragic mutual incomprehension.”
The Vatican Observatory has been at the forefront of efforts to bridge the gap between religion and science. Its scientist-clerics have generated top-notch research and its meteorite collection is considered one of the world’s best.
The observatory, founded by Pope Leo XIII in 1891, is based in Castel Gandolfo, a lakeside town in the hills outside Rome where the pope has a summer residence. It also conducts research at an observatory at the University of Arizona, in Tucson.
- Vatican Observatory: http://clavius.as.arizona.edu/vo
The Associated Press: Vatican: It’s OK to believe in aliens
Encouragement to Those Believing in Aliens
Souvenirs on display at the Little A’Le’Inn in Rachel, Nev., the heart of Alien Country. (Photo: Isaac Brekken for The New York Times)
Feeling shy about believing in aliens? Don’t worry, you are in good company this week — with scientific and religious minds alike.
On Monday, Mike Foreman, a mission specialist during the recent Shuttle Endeavor voyage, expressed confidence in the notion, saying “it’s hard to believe that there is not life somewhere else in this great universe.”
A day later, the Vatican sent another green light in the church’s official newspaper. “How can we rule out that life may have developed elsewhere?” Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the head of the Vatican Observatory, asked in an interview titled “the extraterrestrial is my brother.”
Mars. (Photo: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems)He went on to say that extraterrestrial life was consistent with the Catholic faith. “Just as we consider earthly creatures as ‘a brother,’ and ’sister,’” he said, “why should we not talk about an ‘extraterrestrial brother’? It would still be part of creation.”
The idea, however, is far from a new one for the church. Back in 1996, a Times article on the subject noted that “biblical creationists have been touting the existence of aliens for years.” Further, “Mars itself has featured prominently in their scenarios,” Margaret Wertheim, the writer, explained.
Just in time, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander is set to land on May 25. It will be searching for signs of life on the planet, though ones far less developed than the storied little green man.
In the 1996 article, Ms. Wertheim posed a provocative question on faith and aliens that still seems worth batting around: “If God were going to put life on Mars, wouldn’t He have chosen something a little grander than bacteria?”
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The Vatican
Thankfully, there was still the Vatican, which unexpectedly resuscitated my childlike belief this week. None other than its chief astronomer - the reverend José Gabriel Funes - said that it’s okay to believe in aliens. Which - let’s face it - is a surprisingly forward-looking viewpoint for an institution whose chief contribution to astronomy so far had been to pour boiling wax on the genitals of anyone refusing to believe the sun revolves around the earth.
But of course the Pope is smart enough to know who his potential customers are. I mean, if you’re the kind of person who believes in little green men that come in peace and want to be taken to your leader, you won’t blink twice if someone tells you Jesus rose from the dead after three days. Just beam him up, Scotty!
At least it’s all infinitely less boring than the kind of discussion about aliens we seem forever condemned to have here in the Netherlands these days, where one clever clogs reacted to the opening of the British X-Files by saying we already have more than a million of them here, thank you very much, and you don’t need to spot a UFO for that.
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Space aliens in U.S. and U.K. news, Vatican approves
Several media organizations are reporting in May 2008 about news, past and present, concerning extraterrestrials. Check out what the British government, U.S. astronauts, and the Vatican chief astronomer have to say.
United Kingdom
A British report, released on Wednesday, May 14, 2008, by the National Archives in the United Kingdom is titled “Report of Unusual Aerial Phenomenon.” It contains over 1,000 pages of formerly secret documents about unidentified flying objects (UFOs). (Clicking on the above link will take you to the National Archives “Report.”)
The incidents within the Report are from the years between the late 1970s and early 1980s—all from the United Kingdom.
UFO expert David Clarke worked with members of the National Archives to make the Report public. During these years, the British government investigated each UFO report because of concern over possible infiltration of the Russians during the Cold War.
Clarke stated, “The Ministry of Defense doesn’t have any evidence that our defenses were breached by alien craft. They never found one, no bits of one. That’s all we can say.”
Read the full story at Fox News “Britain Opens Up Secret UFO Files.”
United States
In a second story about ETs, U.S. astronauts from the STS-123 mission, which landed in March 2008 from their successful mission to the International Space Station, talked about space aliens at a news conference held in Tokyo, Japan.
NASA mission specialist Mike Foreman stated, “If we push back boundaries far enough, I’m sure eventually we’ll find something out there. Maybe not as evolved as we are, but it’s hard to believe that there is not life somewhere else in this great universe.”
Japanese astronaut Takao Doi, also a member of the STS-123 crew, added, “Life like us must exist elsewhere in the universe.”
STS-123 commander Dominic Gorie also commented, “As we travel in the space, we don’t know what we’ll find. That’s the beauty of what we do. I hope that someday we’ll find what we don’t understand.”
Please read the entire article “Space station astronauts confident alien life will be found” from The Tech Herald.
The chief science advisor at the Vatican also has comments on extraterrestrials
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Vatican Says Amen to UFO’s
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.
British UFO Files Made Public
(AP) The men were air traffic controllers. Experienced, calm professionals. Nobody was drinking. What they saw has never been explained. And they were so worried about losing their jobs that they demanded their names be kept off the official reports. No one, they knew, would believe their claim that an unidentified flying object landed at the airfield they were overseeing in the east of England, touched down briefly, then took off again at tremendous speed. But that’s what they reported happening at four in the afternoon on April 19, 1984, at an unspecified small airport near the eastern coast of England. Their “Report of Unusual Aerial Phenomenon” is one of more than 1,000 pages of formerly secret UFO documents released Wednesday by the National Archives. The air traffic controllers, each with more than eight years on the job, describe how they were helping guide a small plane to a safe landing on runway 22 when they were distracted by a brightly lit object approaching a different runway without clearance. “Everyone became aware that the object was unidentified,” the report on the incident said. “SATCO (codename for a controller with 14 years experience) reports that the object came in ‘at speed,’ made a touch and go on runway 27, then departed at ‘terrific speed’ in a ‘near vertical’ climb.” The incident is one of the more credible in the newly public files because it was reported by air traffic controllers, said David Clarke, a UFO expert who has worked with the National Archives on the document release. “They were absolutely astonished,” he said. “It was a bright, circular object, flashing different colors, and after it touched down it disappeared at fantastic speed. The report comes from very qualified people, and it’s one of the few that remained unexplained.” He said other incidents were at times reported by aircraft crews whose members also asked to remain anonymous because they did not want to jeopardize their careers by seeming to believe in UFOs. In one case, the pilot of a commercial plane crossing the Atlantic reported an unidentified object just 1.5 nautical miles from his wing. He speculated that it might be a meteor or a missile. Although there are some unexplained cases, there is no reported instance in which Britain’s Ministry of Defense found any evidence of alien activity or alien spacecraft, Clarke said. “The Ministry of Defense doesn’t have any evidence that our defenses were breached by alien craft,” he said. “They never found one, no bits of one, that’s all we can say.” Clarke said the documents released Wednesday, dealing with the late 1970s and early 1980s, are the first batch of a series that will be made public in the next few years. The National Archives is releasing the files now because of numerous Freedom of Information requests seeking information about the government’s UFO reports. Officials said names of many individuals had been blacked out to protect their privacy and the entire files had been reviewed to make sure their release did not compromise national security. Ministry of Defense officials indicate in the files that UFO reports were only investigated to make sure that no enemy aircraft had illegally entered British airspace. This was crucial during the Cold War when Russian planes posed an ongoing threat. But officials say they did not try to solve the UFO riddles once an enemy attack had been ruled out. The vast majority of the reports come from members of the public who see strange things in the sky and jump to the conclusion that a UFO is involved even though there is likely a logical scientific explanation for what they are observing, experts say. “Mostly it’s well-intentioned witnesses who are misidentifying things,” said Nick Pope, another UFO expert who helped the Ministry of Defense investigate the phenomenon. “The most common things are aircraft lights, bright stars and planets, satellites, meteors, airships and things like that.”
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“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.”
In the interview by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Funes said that such a notion “doesn’t contradict our faith” because aliens would still be God’s creatures. Ruling out the existence of aliens would be like “putting limits” on God’s creative freedom, he said.
Funes said science, especially astronomy, does not contradict religion, touching on a theme of Pope Benedict XVI, who has made exploring the relationship between faith and reason a key aspect of his papacy.
The Bible “is not a science book,” Funes said, adding that he believes the Big Bang theory is the most “reasonable” explanation for the creation of the universe. The theory says the universe began billions of years ago in the explosion of a single, super-dense point that contained all matter.
But he said he continues to believe that “God is the creator of the universe and that we are not the result of chance.”
Funes urged the church and the scientific community to leave behind divisions caused by Galileo’s persecution 400 years ago, saying the incident has “caused wounds.”
In 1633 the astronomer was tried as a heretic and forced to recant his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun. Church teaching at the time placed Earth at the center of the universe.
“The church has somehow recognized its mistakes,” he said. “Maybe it could have done it better, but now it’s time to heal those wounds and this can be done through calm dialogue and collaboration.”
Pope John Paul declared in 1992 that the ruling against Galileo was an error resulting from “tragic mutual incomprehension.”
The Vatican Observatory has been at the forefront of efforts to bridge the gap between religion and science. Its scientist-clerics have generated top-notch research and its meteorite collection is considered one of the world’s best.
The observatory, founded by Pope Leo XIII in 1891, is based in Castel Gandolfo, a lakeside town in the hills outside Rome where the pope has a summer residence. It also conducts research at an observatory at the University of Arizona, in Tucson.
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Sketches: It’s about time we can believe in aliens
Some religious folk are coming around.
They can be slow at times, but they aren’t as hopeless as you might think. Just look at two news stories last week.
The Vatican astronomer, the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, said believing in aliens isn’t contradictory to having faith in God.
Hollywood has made alien movies for about 100 years, and the Roman Catholic Church is just now addressing what almost every American kid for the last century has believed in and science has theorized about.
Of course we all know, the Roman Church censured Galileo in 1633 for proposing the Earth revolves around the Sun, and forced Galileo to recant. Galileo’s trial has become the epitome of religious ignorance and pigheadedness.
But look how far the Roman church has come in 400 years. It doesn’t say you can’t believe in evolution, and now you can believe in aliens.
Actually, I never understood why Bible-believing people would discount aliens. Some of the most interesting alien visits are described in the Bible. And the more that science learns about the universe, the more complex and mysterious God becomes.
The second religious story reported that 70 evangelical leaders signed a manifesto declaring they’ve had it with politicized religion. The manifesto declares when Christian beliefs become weapons for political parties, “Christians become the ‘useful idiots’ for one political party or another, and the Christian faith becomes an ideology.”
They did not say a person’s values should not guide a person’s political interests. However, they are saying Jesus said to go and make disciples of the gospel, not disciples of the Republican or Democratic party.
I can’t blame those 70 evangelical leaders for being swayed by the religious right years ago. I was too. Like a lot of people, I came out of the 1960s disillusioned, and when the religious right began rolling in the 1970s, I believed here was a movement that held promise for bringing truth, justice and compassion to politics.
By 1980, though, I had my doubts.
I met with a group of men for a weekly prayer meeting at which we took turns bringing short devotions. When my turn came, I pointed out that the Iranian revolution, the takeover of the American embassy and the holding of American hostages was similar to an event during Teddy Roosevelt’s term in the White House about 80 years earlier. Then an ambassador was taken hostage by a Moroccan rebel, about which Hollywood made a corrupted version, “Wind and the Lion.”
My point was that America doesn’t learn from its mistakes. A Christian nation, supposedly, America doesn’t take time to understand other cultures and usually is more worried about protecting its interests overseas than promoting goodwill and prosperity for all.
My prayer brothers, especially one who had been a missionary in Ethiopia, were offended. The missionary came to the defense of the Shah of Iran and American policy in the Middle East. Basically, what he said is what we’ve heard from a few recent administrations: In Iran, they’re evil, in America, we’re good.
That was my first indication the religious right was headed in the wrong direction. kingdom we belong to doesn’t have roots in this world.
You might say we are aliens, something the Catholic Church says just might exist.
When I read what Jesus said, I don’t find him telling me to seek ye first the kingdom of America, which is basically what those 70 evangelical leaders also have discovered Jesus didn’t say.
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