Fine Art Friday: Heavenly Insemination

Lest we forget, the Heavenly Insemination light-beam has another precedent in Christian iconography, the Annunciation and the Immaculate Conception. Notice that in two of these images, the beam hits Mary in the head. One is given to wonder what the real message behind these icons is- the meaning unknown to the hoi polloi.

Are we looking to a future where the masks are taken off and the true meaning behind all of the parable and symbolism of Christian tradition is revealed? All of a sudden we are looking at a much different landscape, where the Religious Right is in disrepute and major pushes are being given to more moderate preachers and movements.

Then there's this timely newsflash: is Vatican policy edging ever closer to the ancient astronaut paradigm?

God made pre-humans into people, Vatican newspaper says

By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While apes evolved naturally into pre-human creatures, it was the will and desire of God that turned them into humans, an article in the Vatican newspaper said.

"The formation of human beings necessitated a particular contribution by God, though it remains that their emergence was brought about by natural causes" of evolution, it said.

The article, published in the May 5-6 edition of L'Osservatore Romano, was written by Italian evolutionary biologist Fiorenzo Facchini.

The article said that, "when the biological conditions necessary for supporting a being capable of reflective thought were attained, the will of God, the creator, freely desired it, and man came to be."

The article posed the question: Does this mean that humans evolved from chimpanzees?

"No, it might be better to say that at some point God willed a spark of intelligence to light up in the mind of a nonhuman hominid and thus came into existence the human as a being, as a subject capable of thought and the ability to decide freely," it said.

So rather than picturing it as humans descending from the apes, it said, humans ascended or rose up from the animal kingdom to a higher level, thanks to the hand of God.

1 comment:

  1. My view on 'origins' so far:

    Earth was twice as small when dinosaurs roamed the earth, because then the gravity was twice as small as to support their weight. (youtube 'growing earth').
    Gradually the earth expanded and seperated the initial landmass (atlantis?).
    Then, some time later, aliens who are million years ahead technologically came to earth to spark the apes a new one. Referring to the Stargate SG-1 mythos where the greys made the nordic religion. the Gua'uld made the egyptian one. And people like Merlin where actually aliens.
    It's starting to make a whole lot of sense lately.

    Those we call aliens, or at least one particular group has created us, and therefore they can be seen as 'gods'. Also because they have such incredible (allegedly) technology.

    Well, we are all not done explaining yet, only half way through... :)

    But together we'll figure out the mysteries of Earth and the Universe and Everything