Whatzit?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Rufus, How far back would your theory reach about "aliens beaming down," and which religions would you include in your assertion? Just Catholics?

[Roy]

Episcopal are different beasts that other Protestants; having "sampled" several flavors over the decades, they all have their distinct flavors and peculiarities, enough so that I shun them all.

The Church of England is not Protestant. They have nothing to do with Martin Luther. They're separate from the Catholic church because Henry VIII wanted a church under state control.

[webenda]

As for whether or not its human policy, I have yet to have it confirmed that aliens beamed down to the Vatican; however, given events over history there, it's also not to be discounted as being possible.

The Annunciation with Saint Emidus, which was painted in 1486 by Italian artist Carlo Crivelli, shows the Virgin Mary shortly before she realizes that she will give birth to Jesus the saviour. A beam of light coming from a round opening in the sky to Mary’s head is said by most mainstream art critics and historians to be the halo of the Lord projecting down to Mary.

Rufus might have a different explanation for the circular Whatzit in the sky.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus, How far back would your theory reach about "aliens beaming down," and which religions would you include in your assertion? Just Catholics?

I do not recall singling out any religion; most seem to have some fascination with the sky, objects residing therein, their motions, etc.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I asked Rufus how far back his alien visitation "hypothesis" would reach. Here are some specifics I would mention, now that Wayne has mentioned that painting:
Isis ?
Osiris ?
Akhenaten (Amenhotep iv) and his "disc" worship?
Muhammad and his Angel Gabriel?
Moses and his non-burning burning bush?
Abraham?
Sodom & Gomorrah?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Episcopal are different beasts that other Protestants; having "sampled" several flavors over the decades, they all have their distinct flavors and peculiarities, enough so that I shun them all.

The Church of England is not Protestant. They have nothing to do with Martin Luther. They're separate from the Catholic church because Henry VIII wanted a church under state control.

I know their history all too well, but I'll lump them in with Protestants anyway under the heading of political separatists (no wonder why separation of church and state is a good idea...)......and all of the wars and deaths that that spawned in the name of God.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus might have a different explanation for the circular Whatzit in the sky.

Dimensional rift between realities........where all sorts of lovely possibilities might reside.

[Roy]

Episcopal are different beasts that other Protestants; having "sampled" several flavors over the decades, they all have their distinct flavors and peculiarities, enough so that I shun them all.

The Church of England is not Protestant. They have nothing to do with Martin Luther. They're separate from the Catholic church because Henry VIII wanted a church under state control.

I know their history all too well, but I'll lump them in with Protestants anyway under the heading of political separatists (no wonder why separation of church and state is a good idea...)......and all of the wars and deaths that that spawned in the name of God.

There have been wars between the Catholics and the Church of England?

[webenda]

The Church of England is not Protestant. They have nothing to do with Martin Luther. They're separate from the Catholic church because Henry VIII wanted a church under state control.

The nuns told me that all other churches were Protestant, i.e. protesters against the only True Church, the Catholic Church.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Episcopal are different beasts that other Protestants; having "sampled" several flavors over the decades, they all have their distinct flavors and peculiarities, enough so that I shun them all.

The Church of England is not Protestant. They have nothing to do with Martin Luther. They're separate from the Catholic church because Henry VIII wanted a church under state control.

I know their history all too well, but I'll lump them in with Protestants anyway under the heading of political separatists (no wonder why separation of church and state is a good idea...)......and all of the wars and deaths that that spawned in the name of God.

There have been wars between the Catholics and the Church of England?

You are connect two things that are not - the 2nd clause of my statement was a generality. I toss all of them in the dust bin for taking a perfecting good religion and spawning something that exemplifies all of the failures of humanity

[Roy]

The Church of England is not Protestant. They have nothing to do with Martin Luther. They're separate from the Catholic church because Henry VIII wanted a church under state control.

The nuns told me that all other churches were Protestant, i.e. protesters against the only True Church, the Catholic Church.

Nuns suffer habitual thinking.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Clever , Roy.

[Roy]

I know their history all too well, but I'll lump them in with Protestants anyway under the heading of political separatists (no wonder why separation of church and state is a good idea...)......and all of the wars and deaths that that spawned in the name of God.

There have been wars between the Catholics and the Church of England?

You are connect two things that are not - the 2nd clause of my statement was a generality. I toss all of them in the dust bin for taking a perfecting good religion and spawning something that exemplifies all of the failures of humanity

I'm totally lost. Which one is/was the "perfecting good religion", again?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Nneeeeexxxxt….

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Barrel lashed to side of wagon heading westward........