Lets be reasonable.
Yes, let's. Can we reasonably conclude that you have abandoned your discussion of the lunar regolith without addressing the open refutations? Can we reasonably conclude that you know your argument on that point cannot prevail? Can we reasonably conclude that your abandonment of it without resolution indicates an unwillingness to be honest in debate?
And if we really want to confuse things up. And which no has brought up, Von Braun became very religious near the end of his life and joined an Evangelical Episcopalian Anglican congregation.
Did they use the King James version?
You're still stuck with the problem that Ps 19:1 doesn't mean what you say it does, and never did at any time or in any language. You pounded your fist on the table and insisted that von Braun's
Lutheran (not Evangelical) background compelled him to read the scripture literally. But the only reading of Ps 19:1 that gives your argument effect is the bastard paraphrase of it that you inflicted on us last night, which might as well have taken a machete to the original Hebrew. You don't actually read Hebrew, do you? You can't make your argument work without a comically inept paraphrasing of Ps. 19:1, and at this point I'm pretty sure you realize that.
And suddenly after you've been dragged kicking and screaming to what the actual Lutheran exegesis is, and flagrantly avoiding where it directly contradicts what
you say Lutherans claim about this verse, now the argument shifts. "Oh, did I say Lutheran? I really mean Evangelical." Once again we find you frantically trying to cover up your errors instead of admitting them and incorporating the consequences into your line of reasoning. How pathetically dishonest you are. And no, von Braun did not join an "Evangelical Episcopalian Anglican" congregation, as if that word salad meant anything. First of all, "Anglican" and "Episcopalian" are at once redundant and contradictory. Episcopalians are the manifestation of the Anglican Communion in the U.S. You don't say both "Episcopalian" and "Anglican." If you say "Episcopalian" it implies membership in the Anglican communion. If you say "Anglican" it generally doesn't single out Americans, and is generally only preferred outside the U.S. Second, although nowadays (since the late 1990s) there is an evangelical faction of Episcopalians, there was no such thing prior to 1977.
No. First von Braun joined an Evangelical church in Texas. Texas-style Evangelicalism has about as much to do with Anglican worship as cow manure does with
crème brûlée. Later, he became an Episcopalian -- an ordinary Episcopalian. Two separate churches. Two radically different
kinds of church. I'm surprised I have to explain this to a self-proclaimed religious-studies student. Finally, von Braun viewed his accomplishments in pushing mankind deeper into space as an affirmation of his faith. Is someone who says that likely to be someone who adopts literally the arcane, centuries-old interpretation of the verse he puts on his tombstone, or rather the metaphorical poetic interpretation of it preferred by everyone who reads the Bible since the ancient Greeks?
