Neil Degrasse Tyson

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I believe that he is a great scientist and is really smart, however his attitudes towards atheism are very cowardly. In the video below he makes many cringe worthy statements. For example at around the 25 second mark he calls atheism a philosophy and claims that with it comes baggage. He also is extremely ignorant when it comes to the terms atheism and agnosticism.

I didn't think he was ignorant about the term, agnosticism.  He doesn't know if there is any kind of Supreme Being because of lack of evidence but he'll accept evidence if it ever turns up.

I think a lot of his comments about atheism were inspired by New Atheism where atheists who subscribe to the aims are pushing for social and political reforms. Some atheists have tried to turn atheism into an ideology etc.

I think it is time that we completely disassociate him from the atheism movement, because that is what he wants us to do. 

And so we should disassociate him from it because he's an agnostic.  It was very rude of people to insist he's an atheist when he's an agnostic.