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Lack Of Faith In Astrology: Bart Bok
Astrology is a Joke… and so is Bart Bok

Bart J. Bok was an esteemed teacher of astronomy at Harvard and the University of Arizona until his death in 1983. However, despite the fact that he taught astronomy he had an unexplainable hatred for astrology, even going so far as to preach on the "evils of astrology for well over four decades. Bok also goes on to imply that people who believe in astrology are weak minded and are just "looking for firm guideposts in the confused world of the present", and even goes on to say that those people take astrology on as a religion. Bok's claims that people who "have experienced astrology" and "know astrology to be true", view astrology as a religion. This is one of the most ridiculous claims I have
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To believe that even a large minority of people believe in astrology enough to make it their religion is completely idiotic. While I'm sure that there are a few people out there that might take astrology to the extreme, that fraction of the human race is so insignificant that its not even worth bringing into this debate. Certain people believe very strongly in George Lucas' "Star Wars" films and idolize them, but that doesn't mean that we should put a ban on the upcoming "Star Wars: Episode 3" film because some loose cannon out their will undoubtedly do something drastic because the movie will be the final chapter in what he has convinced himself is a way of …show more content…
To believe that you can determine the future because of how the moons, the stars, Venus, Pluto, Saturn, etc are randomly aligned at a certain time is completely ludicrous. And the fact that that people feel so strongly about the issue that they will, in fairly large numbers, bombard a scientific magazine with tons of letters simply because somebody writes an article questioning the authenticity of the subject is insane. However, as passionately as these people feel about the subject I definately wouldn't call how they feel to be "religious" as Mr. Bok seemingly

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