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To: BenLurkin

Which one is best aligned with Mecca?


11 posted on 11/18/2015 3:53:12 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: wally_bert

Religious practices for the astronaut is pretty interesting.

Fasting from Sunrise to Sunset, for instance, or how to kneel in zero gravity.

An article about Catholicism and astronauts..
http://nineteensixty-four.blogspot.com/2015/03/catholicism-in-space-houston-do-we-have.html?m=1

Muzzie issues, like facing Mecca while orbiting.

http://www.wired.com/2007/09/mecca-in-orbit/


14 posted on 11/18/2015 6:24:47 AM PST by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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