How would you name Planet Nine?
July 14, 2017 at 11:34 am
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2017 at 11:36 am by Fake Messiah.)
It is said that there is an 9th planet looming somewhere in the distance of our solar system and astronomers are looking for it, both pros and amateurs.
So let's say you discover it, because then you get to name it, which name would you give it?
I think I would name it Jesus. I would do it in order to interest Christians more in astronomy and science and if there were moons discovered around it they could be named for apostles, because that would even more fuel their interest. Books would be written about it because Christians would be interested to know more about this planet and at the same time books would teach them a lot about astronomy and science in general. Knowing their mentality they would create all sorts of legends about it, like some would think you go there after you die; some would get the impression that Jesus lives there now; some would perhaps dream of having a pilgrimage there and so on. So perhaps there would be a boom of space exploration.
What do you think?
So let's say you discover it, because then you get to name it, which name would you give it?
I think I would name it Jesus. I would do it in order to interest Christians more in astronomy and science and if there were moons discovered around it they could be named for apostles, because that would even more fuel their interest. Books would be written about it because Christians would be interested to know more about this planet and at the same time books would teach them a lot about astronomy and science in general. Knowing their mentality they would create all sorts of legends about it, like some would think you go there after you die; some would get the impression that Jesus lives there now; some would perhaps dream of having a pilgrimage there and so on. So perhaps there would be a boom of space exploration.
What do you think?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
