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 ever heard. To say that would be the same as saying that some scientists believe that biology is a religion because they believe it to be true, or that Michael Jordan, Scott Hamilton, and Kurt Angle believe that their Olympic Gold Medals are......
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