Jack Horkheimer is a great man for two (2) reasons:
1) He is the only person that has ever sat on a ring of Saturn. Observe:
2) When he looks up, he sees only stars. He doesn’t see his own hubris reflected back down on him. That’s because Jack Horkheimer is not an asshole, at least not during his 60 second spots on PBS.
Standing in stark contrast to Mr. Horkheimer are those who know the truth about what is beyond the stars. Please don’t take this to mean “Christians.” Well, take it to mean that, but also include all other religions (certainly Wiccans) and, most especially, atheists.
Let’s not delude ourselves, Atheism is a religion; it claims ultimate knowledge of the universe and of what happens to our mortal coil once we dot our eyes and rot.
I can forgive fools like this:
http://godisimaginary.com/
They are merely Christians in denial (most of their “proofs” deal strictly with the Bible and Christianity, as if Jesus encapsulated all religious thought). They still have a chance. One happy day they may realize that the true nature of existence is ineffable and unknowable. Hopefully that moment will come while they are taking a very satisfying dump.
Those who should know better yet have locked themselves into a small and petty hatred of “the people who don’t think like me” are the real charlatans. In fact, their assumptions are every bit as fallacious as the religions that they criticize.
For example, Richard Dawkins is an ass. He determines universal truth with the same shoddy tools used by theists, yet claims himself to be not as deluded. His proof, his mantra, is essentially this; science cannot prove the existence of God, therefore God does not exist. Last time I checked, science can only gauge things which are observable. God, by the very definition–omniscient, omnipotent, and beyond space and time–is unobservable by any method that we currently possess; God is an unknown quantity. To speak of such, whether in the affirmative or in the negative, is to claim the unknowable. Claiming knowledge about things unknowable makes you a pompous and witless ass.
Besides, who would you rather have a beer with?
[Richard Dawkins literally reading his own book from a pulpit.]
or…
[Jack Horkheimer contemplating the rings of Saturn.. or not.]
(Note: I make no claims as to the religious convictions of Jack Horkheimer. In fact, I make no claims as to my own religious convictions.)
