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Aliens Have Souls

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Seth Fischer

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“He admits to being a science fiction fan, which got him into astronomy, and says he would be willing to baptise an alien, but “only if they asked.””

Brother Guy Consolmagno, the Pope’s astronomer, has officially announced  that aliens, if they exist, have souls and are God’s children.

Wait, the Pope has an astronomer?

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Seth Fischer
Seth Fischer’s writing has twice been listed as notable in The Best American Essays and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize by several publications, including Guernica. He was the founding Sunday editor at The Rumpus and is the current nonfiction editor at The Nervous Breakdown. He is a Dornsife PhD Fellow at USC and been awarded fellowships and residencies by Ucross, Lambda Literary, Jentel, Ragdale, and elsewhere, and he teaches at the UCLA-Extension Writer’s Program and Antioch University, where he received his MFA.

2 responses

  1. Manweed Avatar
    Manweed

    The article says “astronomer,” not “astrologer.” So.

  2. Seth Fischer Avatar
    Seth Fischer

    Shit. You have a point, and it has been duly corrected. Still odd, if not quite as odd.

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