Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.
Asimov rejected God too.
I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I dont travel. I really dont, and if I did, I probably wouldnt visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I cant help but feel that the Jews didnt really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you cant really turn it back. (#92 ff.)