You would think that a dilemma like this would make people start to rethink the Earth-centric nature of most western religion. OK, maybe you wouldn't think that, but I would. Here's why:
The universe is massive beyond our comprehension. God surely knows this.
Humans have developed rudimentary space flight. Not only must God also know this, an omnipotent and omnipresent God has surely always known this. Thus, God must have always known that eventually humans would leave this rock and travel elsewhere in his universe.
Dealing with this problem in orbital flight is bad enough, but imagine what happens once you leave Earth's orbit. Mecca becomes a moving target. The Earth is rotating about its axis, it is orbiting around the sun, and the sun is in a cluster of stars moving in a variety of different ways around the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
God knows all this, because God created all this. And yet somehow I'm supposed to believe that God cares which spot on this tiny little planet someone faces when they pray?
On a surface level Western religions have accepted that the Earth is not the center of the universe, but none of them have even begun to grapple with the deeper implications of what that fact means.
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