I like Tyson, don’t get me wrong, but I see this a lot from evangelical atheists. (Mind you, Tyson will tell you he isn’t an atheist, just believes everything an atheist does). Fine, you enjoy studying astronomy, but am I supposed to be somehow awed into a semi-mystical worship of the natural world because of this? Which is certainly the implication. I consider myself a humanist, in the true sense of the word. I revel in the works that my own kind have achieved. A bunch of gasses never built pyramids. We are so much more than the sum of our parts. And among our greatest creations is religion. Not as a tool to control, but as a mirror in which to reflect ourselves.