Is there a parallel universe out there that would be left dumbstruck by our shocking, alien ideas?

ATHEISTS (like Bertrand Russell) may have hated the Big Bang Theory, because it sounded rather too much like the first sentence of the Bible.

Some modern religious sceptics have tried to argue against there being only one universe with a definite beginning.

One argument submitted to counter the claims of regular science and theology is t he possibility of ‘multiverses’.

The multiverse theory might bring some degree of comfort, given some of the stories in last week’s Belfast Telegraph.

Reading of the RHI scandal, a celebrity donating money to oppose dog farming in Korea and Conservative MPs visiting Northern Ireland to promote abortion raises interesting possibilities.

Could there be Martians reading the equivalent of said paper in a parallel universe, where what we have been reading of is altered or inverted? Could a Christian Democrat party for Martians exist, where senior party members live in warm fellowship with each other and knives only come out at meal-times?

Perhaps the fellowship among the Martian party hierarchy extends towards their advisers. In turn, their advisers wisely use public money to prevent any risk of elderly Martians suffering from hypothermia or live chickens being prematurely cooked with their feathers on.

Perhaps ‘mainland’ Martian MPs in that universe use flying saucers to go to conferences on the far side of their planet. On arrival, they agitate to have humane slaughter of dogs on the far side of the planet increased. In that alternative universe, Martian celebrities donate money to protect the unborn (aka ‘Martian neighbours in the womb’) from slaughter.

Martians are aghast in disbelief at reports of a parallel universe existing where the inhabitants (‘humans’) kill millions of their unborn, believe that this defends the vulnerable and donate huge sums of money to save farm animals from slaughter.

Reports that humans freeze their elderly in cold homes and roast their chickens alive in sheds are surely too far-fetched to be believed?

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