[And, btw: What's wrong with being "contemptuous of Christianity"??? The bible is a book of lies, the resurrection story was stolen from the Ancient North Africans (Egypt). The Pope started the Atlantic Slave Trade. Catholicism is a fascist church-state. Christianity and Catholicism are cults, not religions. They brain-wash people into indoctrination of lies and propaganda designed to teach them the opposite of literal truth. Cults are evil. ]
Not for nothing Stalinist Russia was " officially atheist ".
These shallow atheist humbugs are responsible for " The End of Science " ( read the book ) - another " god that failed ".
Today the corrupt VOICE of SCIENCE has about as much credibility as an old late night Kevin Trudeau infomercial . Let it talk about global warming or flu vaccines - Science has lost prestige among the masses. I am speaking of SCIENCE here as a HUMAN institution not an abstract infallible method .
Like so many Democratic politicians the shills of Science ( like Neil De Grasse Tyson) are bought and sold by Corporate America and its military industrial complex.