If God had wanted you to have ...

Perfect! This Letter to the Editor of the Seattle Times:

The all-seeing

Your Hubble servant

As a God-fearing fundamentalist Christian, I am outraged by NASA's blasphemous decision to fix the instrument of the Devil known as the Hubble Space Telescope ["NASA says repairs on Hubble are a go," News, Nov. 1].

And to the tune of $900 million, no less. Do they have any idea how many Bibles that money would buy?

If the good Lord had seen fit for us to study outer space, he would have given us the ability to build rocket ships and telescopes and computers and ... um ... er ...

Never mind.

— Dave Richards, Bainbridge Island