Posted on 01/20/2015 2:58:06 PM PST by NEWwoman
Thanks, this is very interesting.
Maybe that is why they never really let him talk much, just used him as a propaganda tool
I have met far more devout Christians in Russia then I do in the ordinary course of business in America.
They know what it’s like to live under a heartless and Godless gangster government, and they can tell you chapter and verse about the crimes of Stalin.
Being an early cosmonaut required real bravery.
Wow...this totally comes out of the blue to me. Whoda thunk??
If true...utterly fantastic.
If you’re gonna sit on top of what is essentially a great big bomb and go into orbit, you’d damn well BETTER believe in God. lol (especially back then when everything was an unknown)
Yuri Gagarin, first human in space, was a devout Christian, says his close friend
Maybe that is why they never really let him talk much, just used him as a propaganda tool
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To great effect. He was photogenic and charismatic. We can thank Gagarin and the Soviets for getting the US space program funded. JFK’s famous speech was a reaction to Gagarin’s success.
On the other hand our children who attend 'PUBLIC SCHOOL' in the USA can speak of the new GOD except his name is OBAMA!
So did being an early astronaut. Nobody knew what was going to happen when they lit off those early Mercury rockets.
It must have been great watching those early missions. The Space Shuttle was flying before I was born so space flight has been so mundane my entire life. But I always enjoyed reading about the space race. I loved that series on Apollo when it was on HBO and have seen Apollo 13 umpteen times.
The book reveals a touching letter Gagarin wrote to his family before the mission in which he pondered his own mortality, telling his wife not to “die of grief” if he never returned. “After all life is life and there is no guarantee for anybody that tomorrow a car might not end one’s life.”
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It’s a shame he died in a senseless accident a few years later.
They all understand what Obama is doing, and who he is.
What they cannot figure out is why we would elect someone like that, and why we let him take us down that road.
They’ve been there.
btw, after he was out of power, Khruschev supposedly “learned the gospel of John”, and spoke in terms of eternity
to his fellow (former) Politburo members.
All the early astronauts and cosmonauts were a different breed than the ones today. Very different.
“Being an early cosmonaut required real bravery.”
As a kid back then, we all hated the Russians, but I had a grudging respect for Gargarin. Very brave man!
As did, btw, Malenkov (Stalin’s first “successor”), who converted, used to weep and weep over the past (Stalin’s murders), and was eventually demoted even more,
because of his religious beliefs.
And we do too, arguably since 1865 and/or 1868, though it's only in recent years that the mask has really fallen off.
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He is memorialized in many ways.
All Russian launch vehicles roll out at 06:30 as this is when Gagarin rolled out. The Gagarin Museum at Baikonur is of course named after him and has a section devoted to him.
I think Gorbachev was a Christian, too. And Christianity has been in China for a long time and is growing rapidly there.
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