[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

I've met and spoken briefly with Aldrin. He's one of the most clear headed engineers I've ever run across. No nonsense at all. That's why I was so offended by the way he was portrayed in From The Earth To The Moon. Tom Hanks couldn't resist at least one attack on a great person for simply daring to express his belief in God and Jesus Christ.

What was the attack?

[Phsstpok]

in recreating the events of Apollo 11 on the Moon they made Aldrin's Christianity out to be creepy, particularly his brining along a blessed communion kit. Armstrong was portrayed as noble and correct for having refused Aldrin's offer to join in. It was as if the Christian ritual were barbaric and inappropriate, defiling the "beauty" of the virgin Moon.

It was all about the looks and body language between the actors, but if you see the scene there's no doubt about what they were going for.

The episode was written by Hanks, among others.  That fact, along with his being the producer, is why I lay this at his feet.  I didn't think much of it at the time, dismissing it as normal Hollywood ignorance.  I absolutely love the mini-series (I have three friends who were in it, on top of loving the space program), but I began doing a little retrospective consideration of Hanks attitudes following his participation in the truly hateful DaVinci Code.  He seems to have an absolute loathing, almost pathological hatred, for all things Christian.