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OK, so that's not how you remember the scene... that's fine, it's all perception... but it is how you think it was portrayed in the book which was used as the source for the series and that must have come from Aldrin... ?

Those two statements do not add up for me logically.

Is your point that they didn't do it but if they did it's not Tom Hanks' fault? Tom, is that you?

Seriously, as I said, I dismissed my original perception of the scene and attributed any perceived anti-Christian bias to Hollywood culture, not any individual. I reassessed that surrounding Hanks doing The DaVinci Code and my perception tipped over towards it being a deliberate slam. I would have to recreate the stuff that I did nearly a year ago to pull it all back together but I found other things that Tom Hanks has done and said that reinforced my perception. Same thing for Ron Howard. I think both of them have felt type cast as "good guys" in the classic WASP mold and that they have consciously been trying to do things to break away from those images.

In my mind it speaks less to their personal beliefs at work and more to their perceptions of what will play in Hollywierd and what they have to do to advance their careers. Of course that simply makes them whores who will sell out God to get ahead (assuming you believe in all that God stuff).

Maybe I'm not being clear.

Chaikin stated that Armstrong had a baffled expression on his face while Aldrin took communion.

Now, there's only one guy who could've seen Armstrong's face at that point. That guy is Buzz Aldrin.

Is your point that they didn't do it but if they did it's not Tom Hanks' fault?

Since the series was based on Chaikin's book, it seems to me that accurately recreating a scene from the book does not provide sufficient ground for condemning Hanks.