[katana]

She dated Borman in high school, said he never came off as religous.

Better to pray quietly in a closet alone than to beat one's chest in the Temple. I think I read that somewhere.

Broadcasting Genesis to all of Planet Earth? That was just plain terrific. Merry Christmas!

[ground_fog]

“I’m a committed Christian,” he said. “I was before I left, but the view of the Earth from over the lunar horizon was certainly significant for me. But by the same token I love the view of the Bighorns on a cold morning. I think God’s work is everywhere, not just in space.”

https://billingsgazette.com/news/local/50-years-later-apollo-8-commander-talks-the-cold-war-faith-divisiveness-and-american-greatness/article_40d28210-a02c-5f04-9a4a-2292c9735a19.html

[Regulator]

I would have to wonder about anyone who wasn’t profoundly affected by being in space and seeing the universe in all its immensity.

If you recall, ‘68 was rather an awful year. Riots, Tet, Paris barricades, HHH running for President...the story is that one of the other astronauts told Borman that “you saved ‘68”.

That was probably the least of it. What he did was very clearly communicated to the rest of mankind that we are part of something far greater then we can ever imagine, and we shouldn’t forget that.