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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Atheist or Agnostic?

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goddamnedfrank2/06/2013 10:12:32 pm PST

This is what cracks me up - the know it alls. It’s not enough for some people to profess what’s in their own hearts and minds, they have to second guess, correct and label other people’s self assessed statements of belief. I love these straight faced iron clad assertions that people like Degrasse-Tyson are lying, pretending or playing politics out of some fear rather than honestly presenting a well thought out position on an intensely personal subject. When self described agnostics cogitate on the question of the existence of the divine and come to a conclusion that’s based largely on their understanding of their own limitations, guess what, it has nothing to do with you. Nobody’s asking you to buy into that line of reasoning for yourself, but understand that it’s intrinsically disrespectful to cast aspersions on the person’s integrity and/or intelligence in order to question their own self identity - assuming that they’re basically chickenshit, afraid of the public or that they couldn’t possibly have thought about the question as much as you have.