the pope is gonna baptize space aliens

Alien gon be laik "Shits weak, been there touched that, aint nothin but more space"

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/18/popes-visit-martin-wainwright-diary

Aliens may have souls, and could choose to be baptised if humans ever met them, Guy Consolmagno, the pope's astronomer who is in Britain coincidentally, told the British Science Festival in Birmingham yesterday. The science fiction fan and respected scientific authority on meteorites and planetary behaviour, speculated about finding "God's children" in other parts of the universe. "Any entity, no matter how many tentacles it has, has a soul," he said. Would he baptise one? "Only if they asked."Consolmagno enjoys teasing intelligent design fans for "bad theology" but is happy to admit past Vatican mistakes. The church got it "spectacularly wrong" over Galileo's insistence that the Earth went round the sun, he said, although it took until 1992 for the ill-treatment to be publicly admitted by Pope John Paul II.

 

This is a fun thread.

If every entity has a soul, should have my cat baptized? She is getting on in years...I would enjoy her company on the other side, even though she bites.

 

i need to baptize my houseplants! and the spiders! :willy_nilly::willy_nilly::willy_nilly:

 

I just baptized my dirty dishes with hot, soapy water... scrubbed them clean of all their sins.

 

good man... they will be saved!

 

Puh-raise the lowered.

Sorry- went all southern baptist on ya...

 

Anyone who hasn't already should go read "The Star" by Arthur C Clarke. It can be found in The Hugo Winners v1 anthology.