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Celebrating Apollo 11 Splashdown 50th Anniversary

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As a child, I was excited watching the Apollo 11 events. Of course, the details are fuzzy fifty years later, but I was excited to celebrate the anniversary. There are many details that the public did not know and I learned some of these just in the past few days. This helped me appreciate the events more fully, especially the skill of the crew and all the people involved that made it all happen. NASA  image modified through  FotoSketcher Can you believe some tinhorns (often flat-earthers) think that the whole thing was a fraud? Yeah, sure, as if all those thousands of people over all those years could keep the entire Apollo program a secret!  Idiots.  Many of these people (including astronauts) were Christians and creationists , by the way. As a child playing with my space toys during the flight, landing, and so on, I was impatient. There were many details involved that needed to be performed with minute precision; it wasn't like they could do the equivalent of throw a sad

Atheists Can't Protest Everything

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by Cowboy Bob Sorensen  When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? Buon giorno.  Generally speaking, in my experience, readings and so forth... Whenever I hear about atheists in the news, they're up to mischief. Crosses on roads in Utah to honor fallen troopers are protested Fighting the "National Day of Prayer" Ray Comfort's special edition of their sacred text, Origin of the Species , enrages them Street sign "Seven in Heaven Way" honoring fallen firefighters from September 11 is protested On that note, atheists are trying to block the September 11 World Trade Center cross from being used in the memorial Attempting to block the restoration of a huge cross in Illinois A California war memorial cross is forced away Protesting a Sunday morning meeting at Answers in Genesis Signs directly attac