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Research Notes: Space Billionaires and the Theology of Abandonment

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A Z Mackay
Apr 23, 2025
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Why does billionaire Mars colony rhetoric sound so theological? Not metaphorically religious, but structurally, functionally religious. The language patterns kept triggering the same recognition: this sounds like salvation narrative. That impression needed testing against actual evidence, so started digging into what these billionaires are actually sayi…

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