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At least, that is how things were made to appear. In truth, it was American Christians who were
being duped by their own government. The true struggle was not with a foreign empire. The real
conflict lay much closer to home. David McGowan, in his insightful, albeit irreverent, treatise on the
faked Moon landings has written the following.

There is a tremendous reluctance among the American people to let go of the notion that we sent
men to the Moon. There are a couple of reasons for that, one of them being that there is a
romanticized notion that those were great years - years when one was proud to be an American. And
in this day and age, people need that kind of romanticized nostalgia to cling to.

But that is not the main reason that people cling so tenaciously, often even angrily, to what is
essentially the adult version of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. What primarily
motivates them is fear. But it is not the lie itself that scares people; it is what that lie says about the
world around us and how it really functions. For if NASA was able to pull off such an outrageous
hoax before the entire world, and then keep that lie in place for four decades, what does that say
about the control of the information we receive? What does that say about the media, and the
scientific community, and the educational community, and all the other institutions we depend on
to tell us the truth? What does that say about the very nature of the world we live in?

That is what scares... people and prevents them from even considering the possibility that they could
have been so thoroughly duped. It’s not being lied to about the Moon landings that people have a
problem with, it is the realization that comes with that revelation: if they could lie about that, they
could lie about anything...
[Source: David McGowan, Wagging the Moondoggie]

Apollo 8 Postcard - First Day of Issue

Apollo 8 was a feel-good mission for the American people. Everything seemed right with the world
for a brief moment. In an hour when Madalyn Murray O’Hair had succeeded in banning Bible
reading in public schools; in a year when Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were both
assassinated; as America was embroiled in the war in Viet Nam, there was finally something
Americans, and especially American Christians, could take pride in.

The postcard above reveals that NASA was pushing all the right emotional buttons to manipulate
the people. There are the three smiling astronauts. They wear the patch of the American flag proudly
on their shoulders. Affixed to the postcard is the U.S. Postal Service’s official commemorative stamp
depicting the Earth rising over the surface of the Moon with the words “In the beginning God...” in