Word: gods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space. A modest but perplexing dilemma would result from the discovery of intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe. The question then would be: Should Christians attempt to convert their celestial neighbors? Extraterrestrial evangelism might not be necessary, suggests Dr. Per Massing of the Boston University School of Theology. "If God has revealed himself to people on another planet," he says, "that revelation must be essentially in agreement with that which he revealed to us-given the assumption that the Christian faith in its essence is true...
Jesuit Theologian Paul Curtin of Boston College asserts that there is no authority for man's spiritual proselytizing outside the earth. "The only theology I know or can know," says Curtin, "is that of a revealed God in relationship to the children of Adam. If there are beings on another planet, then they must be the object of another Providence. They are not the children of Adam, and so they are not a part of our salvation history, which is that of a fallen and redeemed race...
...City. There are, of course, other compensations. Marcinkus does not have to publish any balance sheet, and neither does he have to face the hazards of an annual stockholders' meeting. He is ultimately answerable only to Pope Paul-who, at least until recently, has been answerable only to God...
Once I said always; once is enough, God knows, to establish relevance...
...several thousand years. You either accept it or you don't. But even if you don't you can still enjoy the world that Crumb has created. Minor details are remembered, and are important - "SCHUMAN THE HUMAN better known as 'Baldy' goes forth with his fine mind to FIND GOD! And believe me, he took along a lunch!" Backgrounds add depth to situations-"Whiteman," the stereotypical businessman, walks down a street that has a traffic sign reading "Keep a tight asshole"; a frontier sheriff, who looks amazingly like LBJ, carries a bomb labelled "H-Bomb" and "Approved by Good Housekeeping...