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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tweets jokes about Christians on Christmas Day
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I'm always on point with it.
Dudes may disagree, but I at least can't ever say I wasn't informed about anything I commented on.
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True enough Christians/Christmas is an easy target, but I think the blatant consumerism associated with the holiday is what makes it so. People are justifiably upset, but truth of the matter is most people who celebrate Christmas aren't paying reverence to the birth of baby Jesus whom they believe died for their sins, they are celebrating a tradition moreso than worshipping a religious icon. I personally took more offense to Neil mocking my traditions, it had nothing to do with religion, as I know to take my Christian upbringing with a grain of salt.
There are no discounts on flat screen televisions or Tickle Me Elmos associated with Jewish or Muslim holidays and if there were, these groups would take strong offense to it. Mocking of ones faith is taken serious by those that take their faith seriously. American Christians don't take their faith as seriously as they take their religion. Matter of fact, we don't take any of our Hallmark-ushered holidays serious not just the faith-based ones. We all know you get your big screen for the Superbowl on MLK day, the best furniture deals are on President's Day, used cars is 4th of July, and they keep us numb off chocolate from Valentine's to Halloween with Easter somewhere in between.
One thing I will say about deGrasse and its something I've been watching with him for a while, it's the lack of humanity he seems to have. I don't know him personally and he may be a very philanthropic individual, but he comes off as disconnected from humanity. I would expect someone as smart as him to be able to look for the positive in any situation that would fukking advance human kind, but I never get that impression from him. He ain't the only genius out there that don't believe in God, but you always see Bill Gates or others use this time of year to bring joy to the lives of others, in particular children and not bring people down.
They believe in Scientism, not science. Their beliefs range in depopulation, racism, white supremacy and wars. They act like they are opposite( example: Republicans to Democrats) but actually the same as those Right Wing Religious Fanatics. Their beliefs carry no real solutions to world problems except for getting rid of religion.
That is all.
................................................WHAT THE fukk
Have you lost your mind?
atheism has nothing to do with your views on science. Its merely if you believe in god(s) or not
1. I don't believe in depopulation
2. I'm not a racist
3. I don't support white supremacy
4. I support just wards
no real solutions? How about abandoning dogmatism?
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Because Christianity happens to be the most prevalent religion in our country and also happens to be the source of most anti-science rhetoric and legislation. Don't pretend you don't know for the sake of sound innocent.
The moment you realize Jesus was not born on December the 25th is the moment you'll realize why nobody takes Christmas seriously and how much time you wasted on this post.
I honestly find this Christmas shyt hilarious. A few weeks ago we were all up in arms about Exodus because it doesn't represent history.
But we give total leeway to an event, a date, that has a completely fictitious and stolen history.
At least keep it consistent. Do you want honesty and historical accuracy in your day to day life or are you cool with bending the truth to feel good?
But we give total leeway to an event, a date, that has a completely fictitious and stolen history.
At least keep it consistent. Do you want honesty and historical accuracy in your day to day life or are you cool with bending the truth to feel good?
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No I Haven't lost my mind look at all the leadership that has come out of your movement. Everyone that has claimed to be a leader of your movement is bringing Scientism. Here is the definition http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scientism.
Atheists bring no science behind them except for what they think science should be. Hence why I brought up in another thread about "Nothing Exists" because that what you believe. Everything you listed in response is a contradiction to who you are on this forum. People have made threads on your exact qoutes from these responses. So save it.
Atheists will one day regret consistently repeating this mantra
sure nothing else but a disbelief in "god" is required to be an atheist
but as a social creature that disbelief will come with a cornucopia of social dispositions and many are values we should proudly associated with:
Skepticism
Humanism
Democracy
Justice
Freedom of thought
and Yes, seminally: a respect for the scientific process.
To consistently shrink to this position in order to defend atheism from being ascribed negative qualities is to fall for the jedi mind trick, and to remove from the public imagination, the relatabe and affable diversity of implications that atheism comes with, and to leave a dark corner from which charlatans will rise and redefine atheism for you.
