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From: cbostrum@watdaisy.UUCP (Calvin Bruce Ostrum)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: The Men Who Found God on the Moon
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Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 01:01:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 30 01:01:00 1983
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Someone here the other day told me that 5 of the astronauts who had
been on Apollo moon-landing missions had become Christians either during
or shortly after their space journeys. I knew it had happened to a few,
but 5 seems like an awful lot; this is about a third of the total, isnt it?

We both agreed that there must be some reason for this; the numbers
were too large to attribute to chance. I think that the immense situation
of stress that these men were placed in, along with the viewing of marvelous
sights they had never seen before, as well as the cultural indoctrination
they received, even subconsciously, handily accounts for their conversions.

The other person disagrees, claiming that these men were so intelligent
and trained to handle the situation to such an extant that such a conversion
could not occur unless they had "learned something" that most of us do not
presently know. What this is, the person would not or could not say. I have
to add that he is not religious, but these comments of his
are leading me to believe that he must be despite his claims.

What do people out there think of the "men who found God on the moon"?

		Calvin Ostrum, Dept Computer Science, University of Waterloo
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