This Carl Sagan quote is truer and more evidentially so at this time than it has ever been !! 🤔🤯
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true weve been bamboozled by the carl pagans of the world bunch of materialist morons
What did Sagan do to incur such disrespect?
He was an atheist who vehemently opposed intelligent design and almost wished for extraterrestrial life and the insignificance of humanity without any actual evidence that either was necessarily the case.
I don't think he should be disrespected, but neither should he be given particular credence. It depends on the topic he's speaking about.
No he shouldn't be. In the end he made his choices and had his reasons. Also, Jesus said to love our enemies. And I believe that can be extended to one's legacy. Our faiths should be able to stand up to scrutiny and Sagan's perspective should be taken as a challenge to one's ideas. Doesn't necessarily mean he's right. But it's better to bolster one's position with logic, knowledge and reason than refusal of other ideas.
Of course. I don't much like him because I find the positions he took were a bit egotistical and don't stand up to scrutiny, but I feel that way about most modern intellectuals. It has nothing inherently to do with the fact he was an atheist, although many atheists have these tendencies.
I don't necessarily agree that 'love thine enemy' should be applied to people's legacies, however. Should we accord respect to enemies of God? We can consider his ideas in order to soundly refute them, certainly, but I don't think putting him on a pedestal or smearing him is the right call. He was just a regular guy, same as us. My review of him remains the same whether he is alive or dead.
"Billions and billions" over and over.