[Probably wondering about Bible verses describing Satan as the 'prince of the powers of the Earth']
This may sound stupid but it's food for thought none the less.
If Satan is behind all temptation and works the ground of the earth then wouldn't temptation be non existent in space, since Satan is not in space but on earth?
So basically what I'm saying is did the people who went into space (Armstrong, Space station etc) ever feel tempted by anything ungodly?
If they didn't well then that proves temptation is from satan but if they did then I think that can be explained by inner demons... of which we all have.
Any thoughts?
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"If they didn't well then that proves temptation is from satan but if they did then I think that can be explained by inner demons... of which we all have. Any thoughts?"
My thoughts are that you are saying "If it's A, I'm right and if it's B, I'm not wrong".
I remember this. It was on Babylon 5, wasn't it? That there were devils on the Earth and that some of them were trying to escape in human hosts to get to space.
Yup. Definitely Babylon 5.
Yeah, that's what the space program's all about, testing whacko supernatural nonsense. This is not food for thought, this is what's leftover after devouring imaginary garbage, you're not far away from being a Scientilogist/Christian
No doubt somebody has lobbed one off on the ISS, just to see if it feels any different in zero gravity. Would that count as temptation to you?
Actually I imagine that anyone who has been in space for more than a day, and had a little privacy, would have done this much!
I'll be generous and assume you mean 'inner demons' in the purely psychological sense.
I'd like to tell a scaaaary ungodly story which allegedly happened during the last mission to the moon (Apollo 17) ;-)
After more than a week away from earth, and more than three days on the surface of the moon, one of the astronauts (Eugene Cernan) was having a conversation over radio with the wife of his colleague astronaut (Harrison Schmidt). Schmidt was still snoring loudly in deep sleep.
Cernan asked Schmidt's wife: "You know him best. Whats the best way to wake up this sleepyhead?"
She replied innocently: "Well ... I always give him a kiss!"
On which Cernan replied: "Do you know ... after one week in space, he really starts to look tasty! I'm tempted..."
Panic! Sexual perversion in outer space! Ungodly! Abominations!! Satans work far away from Earth!!!!
Sorry, my dear fundie russell182, you fail. You deserve nothing but ridicule.
I believe that russell182 has proposed the first ever experiment in the field of Creation Science specialty Astrodemonology. The greatest Creation Science experiment since the test of whether angels spin on the head of a pin when the pin is heated enough that it is melting. Godspeed, you crazy, crazy wankers!
“This may sound stupid but it's food for thought none the less.”
Racist jokes are food for thought. Tasteless and devoid of calories, but you can think on them.
“If Satan is behind all temptation”
Pretty sure God’s the one who designed boobs.
“and works the ground of the earth then wouldn't temptation be non existent in space, since Satan is not in space but on earth?”
What says Satan can’t hitch a ride on a spaceship? Every human environment in orbit is created on Earth, of Earth materials. As harrison Ford’s character said about romance, “It’s an Island. If you didn’t bring it with you, it’s not here.”
“So basically what I'm saying is did the people who went into space (Armstrong, Space station etc) ever feel tempted by anything ungodly?”
Like…what? How many commandments COULD they break in space?
“If they didn't well then that proves temptation is from satan but if they did then I think that can be explained by inner demons... of which we all have.”
I don’t think you really grasp what ‘proof’ means.
How would you measure temptation?
How would you IDENTIFY temptation in a space capsule?
“Any thoughts?”
Your thought experiment is a little self-congratulatory. And ineffective.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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