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How Buzz Aldrin’s Surreal Communion On The Moon Was Hushed Up
As Neil Armstrong’s memorial takes place, it’s good to remember why Nasa kept Aldrin’s surreal lunar ceremony under wraps
Neil Armstrong will be remembered at Washington National Cathedral today. It’s a good moment to look at one eccentric Apollo story: the tale of Aldrin’s hushed-up communion on the moon.
Before Armstrong and Aldrin stepped out of the lunar module on July 20, 1969, Aldrin unstowed a small plastic container of wine and some bread. He had brought them to the moon from Webster Presbyterian church near Houston, where he was an elder. Aldrin had received permission from the Presbyterian church’s general assembly to administer it to himself. In his book Magnificent Desolation he shares the message he then radioed to Nasa: “I would like to request a few moments of silence … and to invite each person listening in, wherever and whomever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours, and to give thanks in his or her own way.”
He then ate and drank the elements. The surreal ceremony is described in an article by Aldrin in a 1970 copy of Guideposts magazine: “I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup. It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.”
He also read a section of the gospel of John. During it all, Armstrong, reportedly a deist, is said to have watched respectfully but without making any comment.
The story of the secret communion service only emerged after the mission. Aldrin had originally planned to share the event with the world over the radio. However, at the time Nasa was still reeling from a lawsuit filed by the firebrand atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair, resulting in the ceremony never being broadcast. The founder of American Atheists and self-titled “most hated woman in America” had taken on Nasa, as well as many other public organisation. Most famously, she successfully fought mandatory school prayer and bible recitation in US public schools.
The United States Constitution and God, guarantee and protect the right of religious freedom. Don’t like it? Move to where the notion is demonized and illegal. Until then; shuddup.
“The United States Costitution and God [or NOT], guarantee and protect the right of religious freedom [including freedom FROM anybody's religion]. Don’t like it? Move to where the notion is demonized and illegal. Until then: shuddup.”
Forget about communion, I want to know more about the Freemasonry flag flown up there before the USA flag. Or maybe that was a hoax within a hoax? Google DACE MCGOWAN “WAGGING THE MOONDOGGIE”
(NA was reportedly a high level Freemason and connected to the Catholics — see what Eric Jon Phelps reveals about all that jazz on youtube and vaticanassassins dotorg)
Freemasonry is condemned by the Catholic Church.
If Buzz Aldrin had been a Catholic, the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ would have been taken in Holy Communion, for the first time on the moon.
As an alleged Christian, perhaps this is why neither Aldrin, nor the “deist”Armstrong were prepared to swear on the Bible that they had actually been to the moon. Which they hadn’t. Nobody has been there. And there is no Rover on Mars either. If you watch “A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Moon”, you will see why I say that.
People should realise that for-profit corporations such as the US, which is the United States of America, and not the originally-established united States of America, ( see the difference? ), do not throw money away on hare-brained Missions to the Stars. They keep the money here on earth, and distribute it to shareholders, who then spend it on callgirls whiskey and cigars. The illusion is maintained in front of a supremely gullible public by invoking the assistance of certain Hollywood directors and the entire MI complex, who set aside areas in the prohibited-access regions of Groom Lake for recreations of lunar and/or Martian surfaces.
There must be very few people who are such massive fraudsters as NA, and yet who are given public funerals in major cathedrals.
Oh, wait a moment, maybe that’s not entirely true….
Thank you for continuing to support, however weakly, the antipsychotic medication industry.
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Kubrick held the cup he drank from
People should realise that for-profit corporations such as the US, which is the United States of America, and not the originally-established united States of America, ( see the difference? ), do not throw money away on hare-brained Missions to the Stars. They keep the money here on earth, and distribute it to shareholders, who then spend it on callgirls whiskey and cigars
Act of 1871 co-opted Constitution for Corp Version that Jordan maxwEL always rants about.