A dishonest “Cosmos”.
A educated religious scholar looks at one piece from the Tyson television series and discovers that its portrayal of religion is wrong and no better than blatant propaganda.
This morning, I watched the cartoon in question and took some notes. Let’s walk through what it gets right and what it gets wrong.
I’m actually not going to draw from any exotic sources for this post. I’m going to try confine what I include here only to things that can be found on the first page of a Google search for Giordano Bruno. This will illustrate more clearly the rank intellectual dishonesty involved in this segment. The truth of the story was never more than five minutes away from host Neil DeGrasse Tyson and his writers, producers, and animators. They opted to tell half-truths and outright lies instead. [emphasis mine]
I am not surprised. I said that we should expect this. Tyson’s job is to be front man for the modern shibboleths of the leftwing academic society, and this series is going to pound them home, regardless of the facts.
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A educated religious scholar looks at one piece from the Tyson television series and discovers that its portrayal of religion is wrong and no better than blatant propaganda.
This morning, I watched the cartoon in question and took some notes. Let’s walk through what it gets right and what it gets wrong.
I’m actually not going to draw from any exotic sources for this post. I’m going to try confine what I include here only to things that can be found on the first page of a Google search for Giordano Bruno. This will illustrate more clearly the rank intellectual dishonesty involved in this segment. The truth of the story was never more than five minutes away from host Neil DeGrasse Tyson and his writers, producers, and animators. They opted to tell half-truths and outright lies instead. [emphasis mine]
I am not surprised. I said that we should expect this. Tyson’s job is to be front man for the modern shibboleths of the leftwing academic society, and this series is going to pound them home, regardless of the facts.
Readers!
Every February I run a fund-raising drive during my birthday month. This year I celebrate my 72nd birthday, and hope and plan to continue writing and posting on Behind the Black for as long as I am able.
I hope my readers will support this effort. As I did in my November fund-raising drive, I am offering autographed copies of my books for large donations. Donate $250 and you can have a choice of the hardback of either Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8 or Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space. Donate $200 and you can get an autographed paperback copy of either. IMPORTANT! If you donate enough to get a book, please email me separately to tell me which book you want and the address to mail it to.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
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What a shameful waste for the next generation who will view Cosmos… :(
We should’ve known there was something fishy about this iteration of “Cosmos” right from the start – Barack Obama HIMSELF introduced the opening episode! At the time I was just annoyed & refused to watch – I mean, come ON – does this guy have to be EVERYWHERE? He’s on every late-nite TV show, he’s on right before the Super Bowl & seemingly needs to have his face on camera at every big event. ENOUGH already! My thought at the time was, “What the does Obama have to do with this?” – well, now we know! Anything that would use pure propaganda & disparage Christianity would naturally be right up his alley. Mystery solved…
As the first 3 episodes was taping, i listened to a Live interview with Tyson. He spoke highly of Sagan but differed . I won’t go into what I know or ,even Argue with his statements. Yet , he Delivered a somewhat Scripted version as to the What Is Known.
In essence , “give me a Lot of Money , and I will say Anything you Want” . And , along This point, I, myself will Challenge Mr. Tyson to confront Me on “what is Actually Known” as to “what can be said” .
Let’s be real here. The only reason the author of the blog didn’t like the Bruno segment is because it described the Church burning Bruno for disagreeing with their teachings.
Yep, the Church never did that during the middle ages alright …
Bob Clark
Are you serious?
I do not think the owner of this blog is even Catholic.
But go on about you ideas. I would love to hear more about your views of the Catholic church.
So. You didn’t actually read the article then?
Actually the Catholic church did not. The church would just find them guilty and then hand them over to the government. The government had final say and did any executions or tortures.
The Spanish Inquisition was a wholly governmental deed.
In almost 200 years of the Catholic Inquisition less than 2000 people were found guilty and executed. None were Muslim or Jew. Only Catholics were questioned.
The Spanish inquisition did cover Muslims and Jews though and went on until 1834. And even included the Americas. They killed well over 2000 people.
Please don’t mix the 2 up.
You could compare any of it to the fall the Constantinople to the Turks. Where almost 4000 defenders died in the 50 day siege. Then after the city fell an untold (estimated in the thousands) number of citizens were executed and over 30,000 were sold into slavery.