My friend Paul and I are having a debate about whether or not the Pope is in contact with aliens.
He's hitching his theory on a Sixteenth Century prophecy which describes every pope that was to come, right up to the Apocalypse.
Interestingly, I noted, the Prophecy of St Malachy (for so it is called) is really very good at describing all the popes up to 1590. In fact, it's scintillatingly accurate up to its point of publication. But its pinpoint correctitude goes down after that, which is a shame for a prophecy that was 'discovered' in 1595. I'd have thought a prophecy ought to have been much better at predicting the future than telling you... what's already happened.
Still, nonetheless, it seems there are people out there who've got it into their heads that the current Pope, Francis I, is chatting to extraterrestrials and hasn't told anyone about it.
I've got to be honest, I'm not sure an old man in a dress is going to give them the roundest picture of humanity.
Don't get me wrong - I've got nothing against the Pope. It's just that if this is really happening, then one side or the other must have made first contact. And how, exactly, would that have happened? If aliens were monitoring our broadcasts to figure out who our leader was, I'm not sure that they would have picked up the waving pensioner in the Italian art gallery. In fact, if they had access to social media, they probably ought to have kidnapped Justin Bieber.
And do they speak Latin, these fellas? How did they learn that? Who called whom? What did they say?
The other alternative is that the Pope called them, and that has far reaching implications for science and religion. Seems unlikely doesn't it?
Paul really likes this kind of global conspiracy thing. He likes to tie it all in to the eschatology of the Bible in an attempt to figure out how history unfolds. His eyes light up.
I'm just not so sure I can believe that the Pope's secretly on the phone to ET.
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