Thread: Vatican: It's OK for Catholics to Believe in Aliens
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Old 05-18-2008   #42 (permalink)
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Default Re: Vatican: It's OK for Catholics to Believe in Aliens
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Originally Posted by kevmartin View Post
... to me this encapsulates the essence of the religion debate. You can't really claim to be religious or have any relationship with a 'God'(whatever that may mean to you) without faith - belief without evidence. The only alternative (my personal flavour of understanding of things) is to choose what you believe to be the most likely explanation of things.
Which is putting faith in your understanding of things and/or ability to choose right?

You can't really separate faith from anything we do or believe, religious or otherwise.
Eric
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