
Captain Kirk, Transporters, and More Weird Questions!
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Transporter in Star Trek: The Next Generation
Jimmy Akin: Here's a scenario. Captain Kirk goes to confession and then beams down to the wacky planet. While there, he does not get baptized and has unmarried relations with green women. He does something like this numerous times throughout his tour of duty aboard the Enterprise. Does that mean that there would be multiple Captain Kirk's in heaven, purgatory, and hell? Jimmy Akin: If you had gone into a mother's womb and artificially twinned her child, you would she would then raise multiple twins. They would all have souls - even though there was only one original person they split off from.
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It's time for another set of weird questions posed by Cy Kellet of Catholic Answers to Jimmy Akin, including this time: The Nephilim and Og; asking obscure saints for intercession; Padre Pio and time travel prayer; Captain Kirk, transporters, and the sacraments; Agents of Shield, AI, and the soul; and more.
