The Vatican has been huffing a little too much of its own incense. They are saying it’s ok to belive in aliens. You go girl!
This past week their cheif astronomer, the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes said that the “vastness of the universe means it’s possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.”
Funes said that ruling out the existence of aliens would be like “putting limits” on God’s creative freedom.
So it’s okay to believe in aliens but not faeries.
Its okay for this centuries old cult, who’s had a history of stopping scientific and intellectual progress, even imprisoning astronomers like Galileo, to suddenly embrace the possibility that E.T. might be a Jesus loving freak just like them.
Are they dipping their toe in the waters of modernity? Is this large religious body examining the possibility of looking beyond their scripture, maybe even embracing our own sexual diversity as a good thing?
Listener Grizzly put it best in our forum: “Are aliens what God created on that day when he was supposed to rest, but got bored and doodled around a bit in the margins?”
If you live in New Orleans and love to dress up in drag and look good, stay away from the Burger King. A six-foot, 180 lbs drag queen wearing a necklace that perfectly matcher her dress robbed a Burger King in “The City that Care Forgot” last week, by climbing out the takeout window.
Police speculate that the robber was a “genuine” drag queen and not some guy hiding behind a weird costume because his outfit was so well put together. Her necklace matched her dress.
Oh cabin fever, spring fever. As the city of Chicago gets invaded by thousands of leather men, rubber fetishists and human dogs you can’t help but speculate the origins of all this sexual diversity and intensity.
We think it has something to do with chilly weather.
As T.S. Eliot said in his legendary poem: “April is the cruelest month.” What he means by that phrase is that springtime is not only a time of reawakening, it’s a way to let the sexual being inside you flourish. That is great when you have someone or someplace to flourish with, but if you’re stuck in a bad place, you gotta let that heat out somehow.
We think places where people spend a lot of time indoors may have a factor in nurturing the freak inside. But that really doesn’t explain people in sunny warm California, so go figure.
I do, I do, I do believe in angels, devils, aliens and faeries, I believe in the Feast of Fools, I believe in crystal light because I believe in me!
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I knew eating at Burger King was rough, but not this rough!
Hilarious, loved the whole drag queen story. I told my mother about that and she was shocked. The whole “thou shalt believe in Aliens but deny the existence of homosexuality” is so dumb. My catholic friend was abashed about the whole thing. Another great show yall. Love youins! Matty
That Bjork video that Fausto mentioned is actually from a live compilation video from the band she was in called The Sugarcubes. it’s not a bootleg, but an officially released collection of live performances with interviews put inbetween the videos. It also has the drummer talking about planets, and the keyboard player talking about shopping in Icelandic grocery stores. It’s fun and silly and quites fascinating. Plus the performances are incredible. They were a great band. You can also see Bjork when she went through her short hair and unibrow phase (not so gud actully).
Wow where to start . . . so aliens are ok to believe in, I guess we’ll see Jedi churches really springing up now. Is it too much to hope that we will see the Pope replaced by Yoda and then watch him try to get a job at Burger King.
I think the Catholic Church is behind the drag queen Burger King robbery in New Orleans! Probably an attempt to deflect attention from their newly established acceptance of aliens. What a bunch of bullshit! Anything the Catholic Church indoctrinates anymore is a publicity hype that tries to anchor a dying faith into contemporary times. If I wanted to listen to an organization lead by a former Nazi I guess the Catholic Church still has some relevance.
Hey, for a quick second I thought it was Marc in the picture with the “alien Jeebus”. But no, it wasn’t him! Phew!
On another note, all the kinky sex stuff happens in Winnipeg because there’s nothing to do here but watch curling and fornicate. Yay!
I love the idea of the pope being replaced by Frank Oz’s voice, any character he does. Grover would be an excellent pope Alex!
Doesn’t the stud with the alien jesus look hot? I think so.
It’s like a little CI-tee. All those tiny electrons, moving back and forth like people.
The stud with the alien Jesus does look hot, but he has such a wretched look on his face. Wha’ happen?
He succumbed to sin and sin makes you ugly.
If that’s sin, then gimme some! he looks like he just exploded, in a good way.
I didn’t know the alien stud wasn’t Marc until I read the comments. BUt now I want to go get abducted…. Looks fun ^ ^
They were talking on Coast to Coast the other night about the whole Catholics accepting aliens thing and also said that the government has released some important documents about past alien encounters that had been covered up. They seem to think that all this is leading to a mass revelation that aliens have been walking among us and they are ready to show themselves. If this is true the church would have prior knowledge of this event and by holding to their guns that they did not believe in aliens would discredit their religion even more, so they are now accepting them so that when they do reveal themselves the Catholic church can ride the bandwagon.
Fausto, when I see you this weekend remind me to tell you my Bjork story. Yes, I have had a few brushes with greatness with the plumed one.
who wants validation from organized religion anyway?!?!