Sending Back The Telescope
Found a wonderfully written post at RFM / Recovery From Mormonism forum boards. ------------------ Subject: Sending Back The Telescope Date: Mar 09 00:04 Author: Bernelli Mail Address: Posted by request (from my personal blog)... The Heaven's Gate cult that committed suicide in San Diego in 1997 believed that a spaceship was traveling in the tail of the Hale-Bopp comet, and that they would be transferred to the craft by committing suicide when the comet was near Earth. Before the mass suicide, they purchased an expensive telescope in order to see the craft within the comet's tail. When they were unable to spot the spaceship, they sent the telescope back claiming that it was defective. In other words, their belief in the spaceship trumped all rational evaluation, they were willing to suspend all critical thinking skills in favor of their religious doctrine, and their faith was deemed more honest and true than any and all scientific evidence to the contrary. In a sense , this ...