Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tweets jokes about Christians on Christmas Day

[bnm8907]

Lol for real. I was just stating my opinion about trolling about Christmas on Christmas, not about Christmas in a vacuum. I wasnt personally offended and even said he made good points. Then he goes off ranting and says i was being "hoe-motional" as if he didnt sound like someone dissed his spouse.

I actually like NGT, he's brilliant and generally charismatic

I agree with everything you said.

I actually don't hate @Napolean like everybody else, I think he makes some good points but, he trippin right now

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

I agree with everything you said.

I actually don't hate @Napolean like everybody else, I think he makes some good points but, he trippin right now

I dont hate him either really. Maybe he didnt sleep well or have breakfast or somethin

 

[the cac mamba]

this was the only one that was worth anything

that being said i wish this dude would run for some kinda office, id fukkin vote for him

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

I don't even fukk with Christmas at all but these tweets corny as fukk

 

[88m3]

I don't even fukk with Christmas at all but these tweets corny as fukk

when you attack one religion you attack them all

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

when you attack one religion you attack them all

Is this true, my jewish friend?

You know I don't fukk with your kind or Xtians

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

antagonize christians on christmas day for attention brehs.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Christianity has come a long way. There was a time when he could have been killed for those statements.

in some parts of the world today, he could be killed for making similar statements about other religions that have less chill in the them.

i think that a a better description would be that Christianity was forced to fall back a long way
due to the rise of science and no longer has the power to take a person's life for making those statements.

 

[Liu Kang]

People were actually outraged over this ?

EDIT : I think it was a humorous, not necessarily "funny" but definitely not offensive.

 

[thekingsmen]

So him mocking and speaking on true facts makes him side with Atheists? He said he isn't even Atheist.

 

[CHL]

So him mocking and speaking on true facts makes him side with Atheists? He said he isn't even Atheist.

Wrong. He has said he is agonstic, but he is effectively an agnostic atheist as are the rest of HL atheists.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/12/08/369356881/what-if-atheists-were-defined-by-their-actions

These different ways of defining categories of people — and in particular the category "atheist" — form the backdrop to an interesting episode of the Rationally Speaking podcast in which co-hosts Julia Galef and Massimo Pigliucci query astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on his resistance to identifying (or being identified) as an atheist.

For Tyson, eschewing the atheist label is not a matter of rejecting core atheist beliefs — he admits that he's not compelled by any arguments that have ever been put forth for the existence of God, and he accepts Pigliucci's suggestion that we're just as warranted in rejecting the existence of God as in rejecting the existence of unicorns. Rather, for Tyson the matter is one of behavior. The inferences that people make when classifying him as an atheist don't align well, he feels, with his frequent choice of Jesus Christ Superstar as musical accompaniment on family drives, or with his habit of standing for the "Hallelujah" chorus of Handel's Messiah. He has as much interest in meeting with other people to discuss their absence of belief in God as in meeting with non-golfers to talk about their absence of a passion for watching golf. In short, he doesn't take himself to exhibit the behaviors typically associated with being an atheist.

 

[thekingsmen]

Wrong. He has said he is agonstic, but he is effectively an agnostic atheist as are the rest of HL atheists.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/12/08/369356881/what-if-atheists-were-defined-by-their-actions

He is agnostic, not atheist. You can't be both. Please stop trying to create your own definition.In his own words....

 

[CHL]

He is agnostic, not atheist. You can't be both. Please stop trying to create your own definition.In his own words....

Okay, define "agnostic" then. Also define "atheist"

Because these were his views just a few weeks ago


"For Tyson, eschewing the atheist label is not a matter of rejecting core atheist beliefs — he admits that he's not compelled by any arguments that have ever been put forth for the existence of God, and he accepts Pigliucci's suggestion that we're just as warranted in rejecting the existence of God as in rejecting the existence of unicorns."

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

like worshiping the birth of your prophet?

Your "prophet " commanded you to celebrate his death & resurrection. Christ wasn't born on 12/25 and the origins of birthday celebration is just as pagan as 12/25 worship. Look up Saturnalia, Krampus, winter solstice etc.

 

[NERO]

It would be interesting to see him go in on Muslims on Ramadan but he probably wants to keep his head on his body. I would also like to see him go in on Jews on Yom Kippur but he probably wants to keep working in television media. Christians make an easy target these days so that is why they are getting that work. He knows he will get nothing but some hate mail from the KKK hypocrites along with some angry tweets from soccer moms. If I had his platform and wanted to push people to do a double take on Christianity, I would use the many contradictions between the old and new testaments as well as white imperialism as a starting point. The rest flows from there but this guy comes off as a mocker and probably drives people deeper into their backward ideas.