we’ve only explored little parts of the ocean too

pretty sure we have better maps of the moon than of the ocean

yeah but obviously the ocean isn’t heaven, it’s *down*. the ocean MIGHT be hell

In medieval theology, the Moon was believed to be the highest part of the terrestrial sphere, because it was both marred and subject to change, unlike the unchanging featureless points of light which comprised the planets and stars. In Out of the Silent Planet, which borrows several medieval cosmological tropes and updates them for the present day, Lewis explicitly posits that the Moon is the prison of Satan.

Clearly, the Moon is Hell. Based on this fact, we can extrapolate another: having visited Hell to free the souls of the righteous during the Harrowing of Hell, Jesus was the first astronaut.

If we are curious about why the Moon appeared uninhabited when Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed there, we can easily conclude that this is most likely because 1) universalism is true, therefore 2) the Harrowing of Hell emptied the Moon for good, and 3) Lucifer was redeemed just as foretold by the Yazidis and their allegedly heterodox understanding of Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel being obviously cognate to both the traditional Christian Satan, and to Thulcandra, the Oyarsa of Earth in Lewis’s cosmology.

I really like that you’re bringing in Yazidi theology.

The key to good speculative theology is to be completely arbitrary about the sources you use, and to refuse to justify your decisions.