Wishing we had a better solar system

I'm currently reading Dante's Divine Comedy, which was written 700 years ago and is a poem that chronicles the author's imaginary journey through heaven, hell, and purgatory. Since it was written in the late Middle Ages, people didn't know that the earth wasn't the center of the solar system, or that there was even land on the Western hemisphere. Because of this, in Dante's universe Hell is thought to be under the surface of the earth -- with worse sinners near the center and Satan at the bottom of it all. Purgatory is a giant mountain in the Western hemisphere and Heaven exists in various stages inside and outside the solar system.

I was thinking to myself that our solar system, while fairly interesting in its own rite with all of our planets, asteroids and what-not, could stand to be a bit cooler. Things would be a lot more interesting if other planets in our solar system were used as real estate for the lower parts of heaven. It would also be easier to do apologetics. (You don't think there's a God? Check out NASA Hubble Space telescope images that shows angels flying around the asteroid belt!)

This thought of mine was strengthened after reading C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy, in which the different planets of our solar system are inhabited by creatures that never experienced original sin, and each planet is lead by an archangel-type creature.

But maybe we do live in the coolest of all universes. Or maybe at one time before the space program existed our solar system did house heavenly beings, but as soon as NASA got outside of earth's orbit in the 1960s they all packed up shop and moved over to the next solar system, somewhere near Alpha or Proxima Centauri. God, in his goodness, probably didn't want those jerks Buzz Aldrin or Neil Armstrong to mess with people in their glorified state. Nor did he want them to be bothered with all those Russians on the international space station.

In order to sort this all out I'll have to re-watch Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, in which Capt. Kirk has a religious experience at the center of the galaxy.