RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson
August 24, 2015 at 9:39 am
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2015 at 9:40 am by Celestine.)
(August 14, 2015 at 12:59 am)Shuffle Wrote: I wanted to know your guys' thoughts on Neil, because I have a very different view of him than many other atheists might have.
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 think it is time that we completely disassociate him from the atheism movement, because that is what he wants us to do.
He is not ignorant in that he knows many people think of when they think of the word atheist, many theists especially the more fundamental ones view atheists as a stereotype, a bunch of hate mongers etc, probably in no small part thanks to people like Richard Dawkins who is more akin to mormonism than atheism, before him atheists never went door to door asking people why they believe what they do, I didn't like the mormons doing it while I was a christian, and I don't like the mormons doing it while I'm an atheist, don't know why he thought it was a good idea, what is a good idea though is trying to get passed that stereotype in order to allow your target audience to be more open minded.
As for my opinions on Mr. Tyson they have dropped considerably ever since the second season of Cosmos.
