Archive for the ‘belief’ Category

Vatican Astronomer on Extra Terrestrials

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Boing
Boing
: “According the Independent Catholic News, the book, published
by the Catholic Truth Society, raises such questions as:

  • Is Jesus Christ’s redemption valid for intelligent
    beings throughout the universe?
  • or would other worlds have their own version of
    Jesus?…”

Philip K. Dick had a little bit of twisted fun with those two questions in
Rautavaara’s
Case
.

I Left My Heart at Nag Hammadi

Thursday, November 13th, 2003

Now, you might not search for phrases like hypostasis of the archons, but I do. And what do you know, it turned up an online version of the Nag Hammadi Library, one of the many inspirations for the delightful madness in Philip K. Dick’s Valis.