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"Aliens Are Our Brothers" Says Vatican (Who Attacked Trump During Campaign)
Mental Floss ^ | 2015 | Ransom Riggs

Posted on 06/05/2017 9:20:57 AM PDT by Sontagged

We don't usually cover straight-up news as such here on the floss, but this particular item was so out there -- and so geeky at the same time -- I just couldn't let it fall through the cracks. For the first time ever, Vatican astronomers have admitted the possibility -- even the probability -- of intelligent life on other planets.

Vatican official Father Gabriel Funes, a respected astronomer in his own right, released an article titled, literally, Aliens Are My Brother, detailing various extraterrestrial scenarios as they relate to Christian theology.

He compares the potential multiplicity of life forms in the universe to that here on Earth, and goes on to speculate that such alien life forms could even be "free from Original Sin ... [remaining] in full friendship with their creator." (In short, expect to hear lots more conspiracy theories about how Jesus and the angels were aliens in the near future.)

But it's not just the Catholic Church that has aliens on the brain -- also this week, the British government released years' worth of newly-declassified documents pertaining to UFO sightings in British airspace. "The Ministry of Defence does not deny that there are strange things to see in the sky," one internal memo explains, "but it certainly has no evidence that alien spacecraft have landed on this planet." (Suuuure, guys.)

You can check out the newly-released records here, the most hilarious bits of which, in our opinion, are the vigorous and exceedingly formal tiffs between various dukes, lords and viscounts in the British House of Lords regarding UFOs, like this one:

lords.jpgViscount Long: My Lords, if the Noble Earl is suspicious that the Ministry of Defence is covering up in any way, I can assure him ... the sole interest of the MoD in UFO reports is to establish whether they reveal anything of defence interest.

Lord Wynne-Jones: My Lords, does the Answer given mean that since there has been a Conservative Government the UFOs have done a U-turn and departed?

The Earl of Kimberley: My Lords, as my noble friend said that 600 UFOs had been officially reported or acknowledged by the MoD in 1984, may I ask him how many of those sightings still remain unidentified?

Viscount Long: My Lords, we do not have the figures. They disappeared into the unknown before we got them.

Lord Hill-Norton: My Lords, may I ask the noble Viscount whether or not it is true that all of the sighting reports received by the MoD before 1962 were destroyed because they were deemed "to be of no interest"? And if it is true, who was it who decided that they were of no interest?"

Viscount Long: My Lords, my reply to the noble and gallant Lord -- I was wondering whether he was going to say the the Royal Navy had many times seen the Loch Ness monster -- is that since 1967 all UFO reports have been preserved.

Conspiracy/comedy gold!


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: aliensaredemons; popery; trump; vatican
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To: budj

But just so you know, “aliens” in my original article posted here are extraterrestrials, not illegal immigrants... (LOL)... and thanks again for the article on illegal immigrants.


21 posted on 06/05/2017 3:38:07 PM PDT by Sontagged (Lord Jesus: please expose, unveil and then frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised...)
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To: Sontagged

Thanks!


22 posted on 06/05/2017 3:42:03 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (NWO)
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To: Sontagged

Thanks!


23 posted on 06/05/2017 3:42:10 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (NWO)
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To: mosesdapoet

The article I originally linked is about extra terrestrials... but I see what you are saying here.

I should have made it more clear and it’s hysterical that the Pope’s stance on illegal immigration is about the same as their embracing of alien beings from another planet (along with their teachings...

Just posted this:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3558382/posts


24 posted on 06/05/2017 3:49:08 PM PDT by Sontagged (Lord Jesus: please expose, unveil and then frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised...)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; metmom

Au contraire.

I made these posts that specifically address your position on E.T. aliens, Mrs. Don-o.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3558388/posts?page=1

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3558382/posts


25 posted on 06/05/2017 4:33:35 PM PDT by Sontagged (Lord Jesus: please expose, unveil and then frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised...)
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To: Sontagged

26 posted on 06/05/2017 4:35:50 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Sontagged

While Francis fiddles the Vatican Burns
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3558237/posts
see reply 36


27 posted on 06/05/2017 6:35:16 PM PDT by mosesdapoet
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To: Sontagged

All I see in the two links you supplied, are
assertions without proof.


28 posted on 06/05/2017 6:37:31 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Do you believe in the words of apparitions of Mary?


29 posted on 06/05/2017 6:57:28 PM PDT by Sontagged (Lord Jesus: please expose, unveil and then frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised...)
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To: Sontagged

You’ll have to be more specific. Which words? Which apparitions?


30 posted on 06/05/2017 7:18:56 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Any.

Let me put it differently... do you believe the words of modern-day apparitions (in the last hundred years or so) of Mary are from the real Mary, mother of Jesus?


31 posted on 06/05/2017 9:51:54 PM PDT by Sontagged (Lord Jesus: please expose, unveil and then frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised...)
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To: Sontagged

In the last 100 years? Yes, one. Fatima.


32 posted on 06/06/2017 4:26:55 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; Elsie
Before I forget...

The way you can tell if a prophet, apparition, “angel”, alien, or an entity back from the dead like “Mary” is speaking for the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob is...

Their words will ALWAYS conform to and confirm the Bible.

This is because God, who "is the Word" cannot contradict Himself.

This is how we know that either Joseph Smith was a lunatic deceived by demons or not... (and we know he was deceived because his magic tablets or whatever contradicted the Word and tried to rewrite it as it “added a new covenant or agreement” to the New Covenant or new agreement or new contract or new testament of God.

On the face of it, there is no reason for “Mary” to come back from the dead to say anything. If her Son was indeed the Messiah, He did it all, He who is the Word made Flesh, said it all, and “it is Finished”, a finished work upon the Cross.

Outside of there being no extra-biblical need for Mary to come back from the dead to say anything to anyone about the Messiah or God the Father, what that demonic entity at Fatima said was this:

“Only I can help you. My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.”

(Read it here for yourself... http://fatima.org/story2.html)

What the demon at Fatima said is in direct conflict with the Word of God that was spoken out of the mouth of Jesus Christ Himself!

John 14:6, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

Why would Mary, a sinner who acknowledged as much, who waited for the Spirit to fall at Pentecost with the other disciples, in obedience to Jesus Christ, why would she have a need to come back and say something on top of the finished work of Christ?

There is only one answer.

She wouldn't.

It isn't Mary.

The real Mary is appalled at the deceived sheep of the Catholic Church who dare to make her into an idol, and angry (as is her Son) at the works of Satan, which He came to earth to destroy.

33 posted on 06/09/2017 5:45:10 PM PDT by Sontagged (Lord Jesus: please expose, unveil and then frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised...)
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To: Sontagged

If nobody should say anything on top of the finished work of Christ, there should have been no Christian books published after the conclusion of the Fourth Gospel. And this Religion Forum should fold, and we all just keep our mouths shut.

I know that’s not what you mean; nor am I putting words in your mouth. But that would be an unavoidable consequence of insisting that no one need say anything now, since Christ’s work is finished.

Mary’s words, in any case, are not divinely revealed doctrine. They are private revelation which does not demand the assent of faith. Any interpretation or implication that Mary replaces Jesus is obviously false.


34 posted on 06/09/2017 6:52:08 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Chaire, Kecharitomene.)
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

Yes; the recipe to make Savior Flesh from flour and water IS in here!

35 posted on 06/09/2017 7:28:14 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
There's no mention in the Bible about “aliens from other planets”.

SURE there is!

It's on the very same page that "Mother of GOD" is found!

36 posted on 06/09/2017 7:29:29 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Agreed, and no supernatural apparition that claims to be “the only way to God” or whatever, cannot be of God.


37 posted on 06/09/2017 7:32:50 PM PDT by Sontagged (Lord Jesus: please expose, unveil and then frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised...)
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To: Elsie

Woo Hoo!

Mockin’ for Jesus!

Show us how spiri’chul you are!


38 posted on 06/09/2017 7:36:29 PM PDT by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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To: Sontagged

39 posted on 06/09/2017 7:36:38 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
In the last 100 years? Yes, one. Fatima.

Then just WHY are you wasting your time with this Jesus fella??


The True Third Secret of Fatima?
 
John 15:15
 
 

 




The 15 promises

(Given to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche)

1 Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive powerful graces.
2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.
3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies
4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of people from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.
6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying Himself to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise Him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.
7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.
8. Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plentitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the Saints in Paradise.
9. I  shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.
11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.
12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
13. I  have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death
14. All who recite the Rosary are my children, and brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ.
15. Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.

 

"The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem,

no matter how difficult it is, wheter temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families...that cannot be solved by the Rosary.

There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary."

Sister Lucia dos Santos

40 posted on 06/09/2017 8:05:06 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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