Catholics - Do you personally believe aliens exist?

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No, there is no official Church teaching on aliens as far as I know. Personally, I don’t take a side on whether aliens exist. I think it is a real possibility, but I don’t actively say they exist. The arrival of extraterrestrials will not shake me to the core in other words. I just hope they are friendly and don’t mind flabby bi-pedal humanoids.
 
I had a youth minister whose now a decon and was VERY into alien theory. Everything he said was in line with church doctrine.

Most priests I’ve known or other people just really don’t care. There’s too much to think about on this Earth alone.
 
Think it would be okay to be jealous of the aliens if they looked like us and had Superman powers? 😛☺️☺️
 
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I actually took a college astronomy class on extraterrestrial life. 😁 It was mainly looking at all the variables in the Drake equation to estimate the probability of extraterrestrial life.

I think it’s an interesting thing to think about, but not something I think about all the time. Obviously, it’s something we don’t really know. Our God is a creative God. So it wouldn’t surprise me if there were other life forms out there. But then, He might have made it all just for us.
 
No, I don’t.
MOstly because everyone who DOES believe in this, seem to think that they are always superior.
If they’re so great, why ave they not helped eradicate disease, hunger, war, AIds, cancer, ???

I have no interest in anything that doesn’t affect change for the good.
There’s plenty of work to be done on earth.
Get busy! 😉
 
No.
Because it aggravates people that I can disagree with a perfectly reasoned rationale.
 
Used to be a strong alien believer, but not anymore. Personally I think it’s all demonic.
 
Me too. Keep us looking in ‘outer’ space for salvation. Replaces religion with science.
 
I used to as well, but now I have my doubts. If they do exist, I don’t think they’ve visited us.
 
Me too. Keep us looking in ‘outer’ space for salvation. Replaces religion with science.
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More like replaces Catholicism with New Age religion. I mean, gosh, have you seen some of the articles ufo fanatics have written? Its like they are expecting to find a savior in the sky - and its definitely not Jesus.
 
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No, no official Catholic teaching.

Me, I don’t care much either way. Man was made in God’s image, Jesus came to Earth to save mankind, that’s enough for me. If aliens turn up I’ll let the theologians figure out the rest.
 
I Think God created other kinds of intelligent beings. Not just humans
 
Just don’t let them know that we taste like chicken and we will be fine.
 
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Catholics - Do you personally believe aliens exist?
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Catholics there’s no official teaching on this is there?
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Yes. Angels and demons:

John 18:33-38New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

33 So Pilate went back into the praetorium and summoned Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” 34 Jesus answered, “Do you say this on your own or have others told you about me?” 35 Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?” 36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants [would] be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not here.” 37 So Pilate said to him, “Then you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say I am a king.[a] For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.” 38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”

When he had said this, he again went out to the Jews and said to them, “I find no guilt in him.
 
I’m not a firm believer in aliens, but I would be surprised if there are none. With billions of planets in millions of galaxies in the universe, it seems short sighted to believe Earth is the only planet that would have life.
 
I wish that you’d be more specific.

I am almost certain that there is microscopic life out there. I’m pretty sure that they discovered microscopic fossils on Mars. The universe is so large and there are so many planets that meet the requirements for life, that I feel like probability would dictate that basic life exists out there.

If you’re specifically concerned with creatures at least as developed as human beings, then I’m not so sure. I’ve heard a number of arguments about this from individuals at different levels of expertise.

If there is life that has developed enough to reach us here on Earth, either they’re very caring and don’t want to openly interfere with us (Think the Prime Directive), or they just haven’t found us yet. We’re so far away from being able to travel that far, if someone’s out there, and they could reach us, what else would explain us not meeting the same fate as many Native Americans after European colonists started showing up?

Perhaps there’s life that is at the exact same point of development as humans, and we’re both equally incapable of reaching each other. If this is the case, then it really becomes moot.

On a humorous note; I suppose I have to believe in aliens–one used to work on my uncle’s ranch!

~Pax
 
Do you think there might be a planet, oh say, a hundred light years from here in another galaxy, where Eve did not eat the apple??
 
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