The Vatican says aliens are God’s children too… but is there an exception to that statement?

I imagine when one of those elusive, mysterious, saucer-shaped UFO’s touchdown on Earth it will be in the Pope’s backyard.

The arrival would be followed by the all too familiar music that the scientists used in Close Encounters of the Third Kind – but the electrical, be-bop tunes would be replaced with harps, violins and pretzel looking Vienna horns.

Recently the Vatican’s chief astronomer announced that one’s belief in aliens does not challenge’s ones faith in God – because aliens are creations of God.

The astronomer stated that by denying the existence of aliens would be “putting limits” on God’s artistic creationism.

I was pretty surprised by this story. Not only did this story give meaning to my closeted obsession with Star Trek and Star Wars – but also it forced me to think about how far the tolerance level of the Catholic Church could go.

What if aliens turned out to embody every trait that the conservative portion of the Catholic Church detests? What if aliens turn out to be gay, lesbian, bi sexual, or transgender?

Would these visitors from the great beyond still be officially considered ‘children of God’?

I really, really doubt it.

Human beings don’t even get that same kind of appreciation from the Vatican – so what makes anyone think aliens would be treated any differently?

What I don’t understand is how the Church can validate a group of people – or beings, that have not even been proven to exist but at the same time blatantly ignoring the people living in their world all because of their sexual preference.

It sounds really strange that the Vatican can give the O.K. to a possible green, gooey, egg shaped something or other, but to the people who you know and are living in your world, and and who you have full knowledge of their existence – barely get a second look.

But on the bright side at least Spoke, the Ewoks, the Wookies, the Klingons and Jabba the Hut have a place in the natural continuum of life. That is unless they turn out to be – y’know…
—Eming Piansay