Buzz Aldrin's taking of communion on the Moon: “In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages which contained the bread and the wine. I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine slowly curled and gracefully came up the side of the cup. Then I read the Scripture, ‘I am the vine, you are the branches. Whosoever abides in me will bring forth much fruit. Apart from me you can do nothing.’ I had intended to read my communion passage back to earth, but at the last minute [they] had requested that I not do this. NASA was already embroiled in a legal battle with Madelyn Murray O’Hare, the celebrated opponent of religion, over the Apollo 8 crew reading from Genesis while orbiting the moon at Christmas. I agreed reluctantly. …I ate the tiny Host and swallowed the wine. I gave thanks for the intelligence and spirit that had brought two young pilots to the Sea of Tranquility. It was interesting for me to think: the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the very first food eaten there, were the communion elements.”
In fact if there was any worship taking place it was almost certainly to the god Mammon, and perhaps to Jeff Bezos himself given the heroic welcome he received on his return to earth after his free floating 'small step for Jeff, and huge leap for Amazon' that he undertook.
I think its time for the tin-foil geeks in their basements to develop a new conspiracy theory that this entire show was a Hollywood backlot production and that the bodies floating around in the huge phallic monstrosity did in fact have invisible wires attached to their 'space suits'.
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