Anglicans at the UN

Although it is reluctant to admit it, the Anglican Church no longer believes in hell. If there is no hell, no one needs to be saved from it so Anglican clergy have nothing to do: no mandate, no mission and, most worrying, no stipend! What is to be done?

Save the United Nations, that’s what:

A match made in heaven since the only organisation that is as lost as the United Nations is the Anglican Church – although since Anglicans don’t believe in hell, they can’t believe in its opposite, heaven, either.

Having rejected Canada, the UN is preparing for Aliens

Since Canada won’t join in with the ubiquitous excoriation of Israel that now seems to be a condition of sitting on the ludicrously named UN Security Council, Canada will not be allowed a seat. Not to worry, the UN is, instead, preparing for an invasion of aliens – an activity more in keeping with its view of pressing exigencies that Arab dictatorships are unlikely to object to:

We Earthlings are poorly prepared to respond should there be contact from aliens, according to the director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA).  “Statistically, extraterrestrial life is a possibility,” Malaysian astrophysicist, Mazlan Othman, told journalists in New York, where she is attending a General Assembly meeting on cooperation in the peaceful use of outer space.

Othman says solar systems of planets around stars are constantly being discovered and when considering the billions of stars in space, “we could find life,” though when discussing extraterrestrial life, it is “not always green aliens with large lovely eyes, but most likely bacteria.”

The UN is blissfully unaware that they are already among us: