Neil DeGrasse Tyson gave a speech several years ago in which he included an anecdote about GWB. (Watch the video for the full effect of the dialed-up, almost Krugmanian level of snark.)
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The kicker is - get this - most stars have Arabic names, so Bush's whole point was wrong. Ha ha, what a maroon!
But nobody can find any reliable reference to this alleged speech, and it's very far from the way the President usually spoke about comparative religion. The President did give a speech in 2003 (after a space shuttle crash) in which he said “The same Creator who names the stars also knows the names of the seven souls we mourn today.” This had nothing to do with Arabs or Muslims or comparing religions.
Anyway, it's been six days since the controversy was widely reported. (The quote was the subject of a thread on /r/atheism in early 2013, where the NDT fans laughing at that idiot bush outweighed a couple of lonely comments wondering whether it might be better to scoff at Bush for things there is some evidence of, rather than things that exist only in NDT's head. However, it wasn't as widely publicized then.) Tyson isn't commenting, but the quote still appears on Tyson's personal sub-site on the Hayden Planetarium site.
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Quote:
Here’s what happens. George Bush, within a week of [the 9/11 terrorist attacks] gave us a speech attempting to distinguish we from they. And who are they? These were sort of the Muslim fundamentalists. And he wants to distinguish we from they. And how does he do it? He says, “Our God” — of course it’s actually the same God, but that’s a detail, let’s hold that minor fact aside for the moment. Allah of the Muslims is the same God as the God of the Old Testament. So, but let’s hold that aside. He says, “Our God is the God” — he’s loosely quoting Genesis, biblical Genesis — “Our God is the God who named the stars.” |
The kicker is - get this - most stars have Arabic names, so Bush's whole point was wrong. Ha ha, what a maroon!
But nobody can find any reliable reference to this alleged speech, and it's very far from the way the President usually spoke about comparative religion. The President did give a speech in 2003 (after a space shuttle crash) in which he said “The same Creator who names the stars also knows the names of the seven souls we mourn today.” This had nothing to do with Arabs or Muslims or comparing religions.
Anyway, it's been six days since the controversy was widely reported. (The quote was the subject of a thread on /r/atheism in early 2013, where the NDT fans laughing at that idiot bush outweighed a couple of lonely comments wondering whether it might be better to scoff at Bush for things there is some evidence of, rather than things that exist only in NDT's head. However, it wasn't as widely publicized then.) Tyson isn't commenting, but the quote still appears on Tyson's personal sub-site on the Hayden Planetarium site.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on George W. Bush
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