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9.18.07 @ 12:01AM

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James Bowman writing about In the Shadow of the Moon quotes astronaut Dave Scott as saying that in science fiction stories about the moon landing "I don't think any of them imagined the whole world
watching on TV."

Perhaps not, but science fiction author Murray Leinster imagined the possibility of planetary and stellar exploration as a prime time live media advertising extravaganza in his 1954 novel Operation: Outer Space.

Full text here.
-- Harry M. Kriz

TARE-ING INTO MISSIONARIES
Re: Mark Tooley's Goodbye to American Christendom:

That should be "wheat and tares" not "wheat and tears."

Tare: "a noxious weed, probably the darnel." Reference: dictionary.com

The term "tares" is used seven times in Matthew, Chapter 13 (KJV). Example (verse 25): But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

Good article.

BTW, I have no regard for the opinions of the left-wingers who compose "Sojourners."
-- David Shoup
Fort Gordon, Georgia

One question to Mark Tooley: Was there ever a Christendom in America, with luminaries such as Thomas Jefferson and Bill Clinton fornicating, as did many of the famous pastors such as Jim Baker and Jimmy Swaggart? The only conservatism that the so-called American Christians stick to is worship of white skin color, marrying within one's race in the name of Christianity and trying to abide racial purity...beyond that there is no conservatism in America.

Personally I would like to see American missionaries banned from developing countries, particularly the white American missionaries.
-- Chell

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