6 SEPTEMBER 1969, Page 4

God on the moon

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS

Mrs Madalyn Murray O'Hair, a well- known American atheist, has filed a suit in the Austin District Court to prevent astro- nauts on duty from practising religion on the moon.

Mrs Madalyn Murray O'Hair Couldn't abide the thought of prayer. Men on the moon must go to quad, Said she, if they offered a prayer to God. For if men go praying all round the moon, There's a terrible, terrible risk that soon The habit may even spread down here, Says Mrs Madalyn Murray O'Hair. Says Mrs O'Hair, 'And strike me pink When once Free Thinkers are free to think.'