Words are inadequate

Well, since you asked:

It's actually Rayleigh scattering that causes the daytime sky to look blue. The short wavelengths (blue light) are scattered to a greater degree than long wavelengths (red) as they strike particles in the atmosphere. More scattering occurs when the light passes through more atmosphere. Hence at sunrise and sunset, when the light comes in tangent to the Earth and passes through a greater airmass, your blue light has been scattered away, and everything looks red. The scattered blue light makes the daytime sky look blue.

From the full Moon's perspective, the edges of the Earth are the regions experiencing sunrise or sunset. Hence, it's that same red light that eventually strikes the Moon and reflects back to the night side of the Earth. The refraction through the Earth's atmosphere is what causes the red light to hit the Moon at all, rather than missing it completely.

So our wacky theories ARE consistent. Course you know that, but it gave me an excuse to blab for a bit.