Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tweets jokes about Christians on Christmas Day

[sirkeelma]

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson decided to spend part of Christmas Day riling up Christians.

The "Cosmos" host cracked wise about the biggest holiday of the year in a series of tweets.

Here are some of his tweets

Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.

Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig

Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA).

On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642

QUESTION: ThIs year, what do all the world's Muslims and Jews call December 25th? ANSWER: Thursday

Neil trolling Christians hard.

[Raymone]

Well, Neil is full of shit because Newton was born on January 4th, 1643.

[Batzman]

Did he get hacked or something? I thought he doesn't care for religious debates.

[sirkeelma]

Well, Neil is full of shit because Newton was born on January 4th, 1643.

Newton was born during a 150-year-period where England used a different calendar from the rest of Europe. While the rest of the continent adopted the Gregorian calendar that we use today, the English persisted in using the less accurate Julian calendar which lagged ten days behind because of a faulty method of accounting for leap years. As a result, while Newton was born on December 25, 1642 in England, his birthday was January 4, 1643 everywhere else.

[ace23]

Did he get hacked or something? I thought he doesn't care for religious debates.

Lol

[MadeFromDust]

Neil deGrasse Tyson's brain doesn't exist. He can't see his brain. He can't touch his brain. He can't smell his brain. He can't hear his brain. Therefore, he doesn't have a brain!

[ItsMillerTime]

Neil deGrasse Tyson's brain doesn't exist. He can't see his brain. He can't touch his brain. He can't smell his brain. He can't hear his brain. Therefore, he doesn't have a brain!

Terrible analogy.

[L.Kizzle]

Who writes his material, Carlos Mencia?

[SCdac]

making fun of christianity has gotten old. mostly because it's easy and everybody does it. doing it on christmas is just tacky imo. (and I love tyson's work btw)

[Trollsmasher]

another uncivilized negro

ship him back to Africa

[knickballer]

making fun of christianity has gotten old. mostly because it's easy and everybody does it. doing it on christmas is just tacky imo. (and I love tyson's work btw)

This. I would be more impressed if he did the same with Islam because he'd face death threats and major uproar from liberals and extremists alike. With Christianity no one cares and everyone makes fun of them.

[~primetime~]

The only tweet that seems like it could be offensive is the pagan one... The others seem very harmless imo

Really he's just trying to enlighten us with truths like he says, not troll religion, I don't think NDT is the type that cares to "troll" religion

[CavaliersFTW]

Did he get hacked or something? I thought he doesn't care for religious debates.

He doesn't care for religion.

[CavaliersFTW]

Neil deGrasse Tyson's brain doesn't exist. He can't see his brain. He can't touch his brain. He can't smell his brain. He can't hear his brain. Therefore, he doesn't have a brain!

His brain is material and it or anyone else's is easy to detect/prove to exist. Though yours might be a little more difficult to detect.

[SCdac]

eh, christmas is part of american culture... people should just accept that and get over it rather than slamming it or trivializing it... and this is coming from a jew... yea materialism and consumerism is whack (in reference to one of his tweets), we all agree, but there's nothing wrong with gift giving imo. shitting on the holiday on christmas day reminds me of people using veteran's day to air out the grievances about american wars. like, really??