• the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    13 days ago

    What a fucking fall from grace. I used to (possibly wrongly) believe he was a very intelligent man but the more he opens his mouth the more convinced I get that he is an absolute moron.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
      6·
      13 days ago

      Yeah, like when he stopped talking about evolutionary biology and started talking about how awful islamic people are, right?

      …

      right?

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
          2·
          13 days ago

          I mean I got more, it’s just the first that came to mind.

          "As I discuss in my book “The blind watchmaker” and the much more popular “the god delusion” we need to defend our planet against a lack of understanding of the propagation of culture. As well as religion in general.

          spoiler

          My fellow Earthicans, as I discuss in my book “Earth in the Balance,” and the much more popular “Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth,” we need to defend our planet against pollution. As well as dark wizards.

          He didn’t get enough attention when he published the subtler book so he had to act out to get attention

            • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
              3·
              13 days ago

              to write a book about? sure. to “defend our planet againt”? that’s a bit of an overstatement

              • rapchee@lemmy.world
                3·
                13 days ago

                a lot of awful things happen just today (not to mention historically) because of religion, tbf to be more precise, due to religious justifications

                • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
                  12·
                  13 days ago

                  sure, and in 1958 they started killing all the sparrows in china and 15 million+ people starved to death. It’s not religion atheism that caused that one; turns out that people fuck up whatever they want to and blame it on whatever; it doesn’t mean the thing they are blaming caused the thing that happened

                  • Nalivai@lemmy.world
                    2·
                    13 days ago

                    They didn’t say all bad things happened because of religion. Your example has nothing to do with religion at all, it was pure human stupidity, but when religious people do pure evil with the only justification being “because my religion says so”, you can’t not attribute it to religion if you want to be honest.

              • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
                2·
                13 days ago

                yeah. all my religion wants people to do is eat good food and throw cookouts (preferably by the sea) where you invite the whole neighborhood AND THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART DON’T GIVE THEM FOOD POISONING we already had cults do food poisoning around here and i want to try something original.

                we could probably do better by going vegan but my diet really doesn’t work with that and it’s my cult and i’m gonna be selfish about one thing.

    • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      We need to stop imagining that being an expert in on practice or discipline means you have even the slightest utility outside your area of interest. We are constantly inviting “experts” to babble outside their area of expertise only to be shocked when they say something stupid.

    • Nalivai@lemmy.world
      3·
      13 days ago

      They correctly answered the easiest question in the universe, but because it wasn’t very popular thing to do we collectively decided that they’re smart af.

      • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        I stupidly believed Bill Maher was credible at one point.

        Unfortunatly that was more or less what got my attention. He said “jesus bad” and thats all my dumb adolescent brain needed to hear.