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A Message from the Moon

The first time that humans ever traveled to another world they did so over Christmas…

A Message from the Moon

The first time that humans ever traveled to another world they did so over Christmas… Christmas of 1968, to be exact. I hope you enjoy this special Christmas edition of Moving Back to America, which tells the story of the gutsiest audible ever called in human history.

Video above hosted at Rumble.

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43 replies on “A Message from the Moon”

Beautiful, beautiful piece Bill. I was seven years old when A8 went up. I remember it well and listened to the broadcast live. Men like these made my childhood magical.

I had a vinyl record by James Irwin where he talked about how God led him to the moon. How he encouraged that reading. How he found the Genesis rock sitting up on a small pillar like it was there meant to be seen.
I loved your look back to the triumphs of the people who stretched to make a difference.

I saw an interview a number of years ago where Jim Lovell related an amusing story. He and Frank Borman were planning to have a chuckle at rookie Bill Anders expense by not telling him what to expect at reentry ie being inside the fireball.
It turns out that reentry on returning from the moon is far more spectacular than reentry from low earth orbit, so Lovell and Borman were the ones who got the surprise.

The firmament?
But they’re astronauts, right?
Scientist, engineer, pilot, …deist….?
What if I’m not a bible-banging, hymn-hummin’, tambourine-whacking, psalm-singer?
Edgar Mitchell threw the BS flag..

Scientists shouldn’t believe in God? What does their line of work have to do with their faith? Some of the greatest scientists in history were believers.

Seems to me that science began by observation and logical, reasoning Christian men who understood the universe was created. That swept away all the nonsense like leaves falling created birds, flies grew from rotting meat, etc. Proof and repeatable experiments were the basis of science. Science is based on an ordered, created universe. But since Darwin and all muddied the waters with unproven imagination, science left the logic and reasoning. Science left God and strayed into fantasy again.

Exactly the right questions…
Believers or doers…?
There is a difference.
At what point does faith indicate action?
Where does reverence meet the road?

One way we can worship and venerate our God is to fully understand His creation and gift to us.
There are many kinds of religious people. Some of them are quite silly, some are just artistic and entertaining and some are introspective.
People spend hours watching movies, interviewing the directors, writers and others in the production. People study the paintings of long dead artists trying to fathom the message of the art.
A scientist cannot look at the greatest creation and try to understand its Maker?

Exactly so. Science is the quest to understand creation. Anti-Theism disguised as Atheism is a quest to exclude the possibility of a Creator in spite of science.

Science does not rule out God the Creator, with every discovery in science God gets bigger and more powerful. Not because He was ever less than He is but because our understanding of what He has made perforce enlarges upon our picture of Him.

It’s a lesser thing to say “He made a huge ball of fire that rises in the east and sets in the west” than it is to understand orbital dynamics and the thermonuclear engine that is the star we orbit. They’re the same thing, made by the same God, the latter simply being a matter of our increased understanding of what He has created.

It takes a simple, shallow, ignorant mind to think that all people of Faith are “… bible-banging, hymn-hummin’, tambourine-whacking, psalm-singers …” That sort of a statement is intentionally derisive and either willfully ignorant or witlessly stupid.

That such words would come from the mind of someone who has said and will not budge from statements like “The attack on the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001 was carried out by an American made missile not a highjacked airliner” and “Ashli Babbitt was a U.S. Government operative who was not killed but only acted out a role in the January 6th 2021 unrest in the U.S. Capitol” …

Is no surprise at all.

ACTS (TM):
Nigger please….
There’s a support group for you somewhere, I just know it…
Maybe the invisible boogeyman in the sky can help you with that…
What’s her number?

Thank you. Your ad hominem uncivil rudeness proves my point better than paragraphs of text from my own hand ever could. Way to go, I always appreciate it when you show your true colors and you never disappoint. It’s also fun to reply to you, which locks your comment so you can’t edit or delete it. Not that you’d have enough good sense to do that, but you might still grow a brain cell by surprise someday.

(yawn) Sure, I’m enjoying the hell out of you demonstrating your six year old’s mentality.

BTW, you know I’m not black, right? All your black slurs do is amuse me, I doubt that holds true for actual black people.

By all means, don’t let that stop you. You’re doing a great job painting yourself as an idiot so far be it from me to encourage an end to that.

As you were, twinkletoes. Carry on, and on, and on …

Yeah, you did, apparently you’re not bright enough to even realize the meaning of the words you use.

Now you’re just boring me.

(yawn)

Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. I said you’re boring and here you are saying the same back to me. Which is imitation and thank you.
Your childishness is a hoot though.

YYSSW kid.
I see you left right after this and never came back to darken the doorstep here again. Good riddance and don’t let the portal impact your posterior as you make your egress.

Thank you Bill, just what I needed after being once more culturally abused by the BBC (you’d think I’d have learned my lesson by now). .
A Merry Christmas to all at BW.Com. God Bless and here’s to a much better 2022.

Great story, Bill – I was 10 years old on Christmas Eve 1968 and watched that historic broadcast on TV. I’ll never forget that moment and will never tire of hearing the story.

Me too, same age at the time of the broadcast too. I was at my maternal Grandparents celebrating Christmas Eve and it was a really big deal to tune in to the message from the astronauts orbiting the moon. I’ve never forgotten it.

One of your absolute best, Bill.
Got a little dusty at times.
Thank you for the reminder that our futures are in our hands to make of it what we want.
God bless and Merry Christmas to all at BWdotcom!

Bill, my 8th grade science teacher used to pronounce Uranus the same way you did – “Yer-uh-Nus” to keep us from cackling like Beavis & Butthead. It didn’t work, just made us laugh even harder. Merry Christmas, everyone!

Thanks for this Bill. I can relate to the seat time very well at this time, as I am sitting at home tryimg to recover from major back surgery. First one went fine, but became infected about 3 weeks later. Had to get opened up again and cleaned out. Just got out of hospital after 8 days. That’s 8 days of laying flat on my back. No fun.

So thanks again and have a great Christmas

I remember Apollo 8 very very well, I listened to the Christmas Address on TV in San Juan PR. My mother decided that spending Christmas there was a good thing since Dad died in August of 67. I got my first two rides on real airplanes, the first a Pilgrim Airlines DHC-200 twin otter, then a trans-Crab DC-8. I was so thrilled that within the decade I would be a fully rated Commercial Pilot! I lost my mom in 1976 and my only brother in 2020. Over the years I have listened to the Christmas Address almost every year on Christmas Eve ever since. I was 13 then, I will turn 67 in Feb. The Christmas Address from the moon had a huge effect on what my life would be. I spent it flying airplanes and helicopters for a living. I retired last April.

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