CIS wrote:More tweets and religious hate:

Mac_Guffin wrote:This is the moment where I started suspecting Miley was becoming cooler:
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Mac_Guffin wrote:Yeah, but that was during a time when leather pants were status quo.

Remember, Kurt covered a Bowie song.

Mac_Guffin wrote:Yeah, but on a deeper level, it was a rejection of the status quo. Which is something Miley's doing here and with the atheist stuff.

I don't see that at all. Miley's going into territory only The Beatles, if you count them, are going into. She's a pop artist loved by the status quo, but she's doing these things to challenge it... Doing it from within, which is much more effective. You're not going to get people to realize their bullshit by singing protest songs and pithy punk rants. It's expected. What's not expected is a pop artist challenging what's accepted.

Mac_Guffin wrote:Yeah, but on a deeper level, it was a rejection of the status quo. Which is something Miley's doing here and with the atheist stuff.

I don't see that at all. Miley's going into territory only The Beatles, if you count them, are going into. She's a pop artist loved by the status quo, but she's doing these things to challenge it... Doing it from within, which is much more effective. You're not going to get people to realize their bullshit by singing protest songs and pithy punk rants. It's expected. What's not expected is a pop artist challenging what's accepted.

Nebogipfel wrote:I'm going to go against the grain here....

"Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements– the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life– weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars

That's a great quote. Should have stopped there.

and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode.So forget Jesus; the stars died so that you could live."

That's just silly. I'm pretty sure Krauss doesn't actually think that stars feel emotions such as kindness, or that particular stars decided to blow themselves up in order to create the human race. So why say such a thing?

It's just asking for a quote mine.

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Animavore wrote:He said it because he was talking in front of an buch of atheists at a convention and wanted to crack a joke at the theists expense.

Ah. Context is everything.

One of the most poetic facts I know about the universe is that essentially every atom in your body was once inside a star that exploded. Moreover, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than did those in your right. We are all, literally, star children, and our bodies made of stardust.

While lithium is important for some people, far more important to the rest of us are all the heavier nuclei like carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, and so on. These were not made in the Big Bang. The only place they can be made is in the fiery cores of stars. And the only way they could get into your body today is if these stars were kind enough to have exploded, spewing their products into the cosmos so they could one day coalesce in and around a small blue planet located near the star we call the Sun. Over the course of the history of our galaxy, about 200 million stars have exploded. These myriad stars sacrificed themselves, if you wish, so that one day you could be born. I suppose that qualifies them as much as anything else for the role of saviors.

Reuters wrote:Miley Cyrus quotes Einstein during Twitter feud over religion

Miley Cyrus and Twitter just can't seem to get along.

The 19-year-old got heat earlier this week after tweeting a photo that contained this quote from physicist Lawrence Krauss: "You are all stardust. You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded, because the elements (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, all the things that matter for evolution) weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in stars. So forget Jesus. Stars died so you can live."

Cyrus' Christian followers didn't take to kindly to the tweet and replied with their two cents, including telling the young starlet to go to hell.

THWOTH wrote:Billy-Ray won't be happy. If it impacts on her sales no doubt there will be a public expression of regret and renewed affirmation.