The_Walrus wrote:
emax10000 wrote:
at the very least do not attack religion and religious beliefs in that Richard Dawkins, DeGrasse Tyson, Bill Maher type of assault.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is pretty much as far from Dawkins or Maher as you can get, and even those two are only really opposed to fundamentalism and extremism.
I believe Tyson's pretty much gone out of his way to label himself an agnostic, despite a large portion of his fanbase adamantly wanting to label him an atheist. Tyson's pretty sensible about the whole thing, but Dawkins has just become insane in the last few years. I have no qualms with atheism in general, it's a valid ideology and there's been a lot of extremely intelligent writers and philosophers in said field (of which Dawkins was once), but Dawkins is an extremist in his own right who had come to redefine the concept of arrogance and seems just a few mildly racist and sexist Twitter posts away from proposing that we round up all the theists into detainment camps. I know a lot of atheists who don't even stand behind him anymore.
As far as Bill Maher, I'm not altogether familiar with his own views...I only rarely ever watched 'Politically Incorrect' back in the day, but I
did see him in 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death', if that's worth anything.