[Right Wing Professor]

Interesting perspective. Of course, let me be the first to point out it's one man's opinion, and certainly not canonical.

[freedumb2003]

ping (it is News, not Religion at the moment)

[The Shootist]

Creationism dismissed as 'a kind of paganism' by Vatican's astronomer

Sweet.

[coladirienzi]

The "Vatican Astronomer". I had no idea they had such a position available. Is there an opening for a "Vatican Petroleum Engineer", maybe a "Vatican Geologist"?

Although not a Catholic, (obviously doctrinal purity is not a job requirement for these non-theological jobs), I would like to propose myself as the official "Vatican NFL Anaiyst", and I'll work for the NFL rookie minimum.

On second thought, maybe the Vatican just ought to stick to its "core" business.

[Uri’el-2012]

BELIEVING that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism,

the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday.

Brother Consolmagno, who works in a Vatican observatory in Arizona
and as curator of the Vatican meteorite collection in Italy, said a "destructive myth"
had developed in modern society that religion and science were competing ideologies.

I guess if Guy Consolmagno keeps his job as the Vatican astronomer,
then he is speaking for the Corporation, the Vatican.

b'shem Y'shua

[WOSG]

Fascinating view ... My Christian friend has a similar view, that the whole idea of religion and science being separate realms is wrong for both. Interestingly, that friend is also a creationist.

I too agree with it. Faith is informed by reason, and reason alone cannot understand the world without getting bootstrapped by faith....

[redgolum]

Catholic ping for you two (dangus and NYer).

If the guys is quoted correctly, and he really believes that creation ex nihilo (I hope I didn't misspell that) is paganism, then he is by definition an apostate. Augustine and Aquinas had very good explanations of that.

Not meaning to start a fight here, but something about this story stinks.

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

"BELIEVING that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday."

What an interesting statement that appears to be endorsed by the Vatican...

[therut]

I have seen this guy give a lecture. Something about his theology is out of wack. I'm not say the earth was created 6,000 years ago but, he does not seem to really believe in Jesus and God. He hims and haws about it.

[shuckmaster]

BELIEVING that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday.

We don't need no stinkin' astronomer to tell us what all reasonable people already know.

[AnnaZ]

He described creationism, whose supporters want it taught in schools alongside evolution, as a "kind of paganism" because it harked back to the days of "nature gods" who were responsible for natural events.

Brother Consolmagno argued that the Christian God was a supernatural one, a belief that had led the clergy in the past to become involved in science to seek natural reasons for phenomena such as thunder and lightning, which had been previously attributed to vengeful gods.

[snip]

"Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism - it's turning God into a nature god..."

This is possibly one of the most convolutedly retarded statements I have ever read.

"In the beginning, God created..." is NOT a tenet of paganism (but it IS the central theme of creationism).

And thunder and lightning? Chickenfeed compared to the flood, and falling frogs and swarming locusts. (Tho', occasionally when I've said something particularly unChristian-like, I have looked upwards in fear of a recompensatory bolt.)

= )

[LongsforReagan]

Wheres my picture of Jesus riding the brontosaurus?

[King Prout]

oh, my... we might need some beer and popcorn.

[BibChr]

Well, what an idiot.

Sure great not to be chained to some bloated, human-tradition-choked sect.

Dan
Biblical Christianity BLOG
Pyromaniacs

[grey_whiskers]

Interesting perspective. Of course, let me be the first to point out it's one man's opinion, and certainly not canonical.

That's more charitable than I had come to expect of you...

Cheers!

[XR7]

Jesus believed the Creation account of Genesis.
Good enough for me.

[gondramB]

>>Brother Consolmagno, who works in a Vatican observatory in Arizona and as curator of the Vatican meteorite collection in Italy<<

The last this guy came up didn't someone say he wasn't authorized to state church position and things he said we just his opinions?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Ouch.