What a tool. It is not the job of science to prove things wrong. Scientists don't wake up in the morning, throw open the blinds, and say, "I wonder whose beliefs I'll prove wrong today!" The purpose of science is not to prove negatives. The purpose of science is to figure out a plausible explanation for natural phenomena and then prove those explanations right.

This smug tool isn't wise. This quote isn't inspirational or powerful. This is the same thing as a creationist proudly squawking, "Well you can't prove there isn't a God!" We're just so absolutely ignorant of Eastern cultures in the Western world that we can't even realize that speck of obviousness.

But the thing that steams me most about r/atheism's periodic Dalai Lama ass-kissing is that the Dalai Lama's publicity, every single bit of it, is not about making the world a better place or about spreading reason and enlightenment. It's about returning to power as the sovereign ruler of Tibet, where the poor would once again, as they have been for centuries before, become the chattel property of the Dalai Lama and the Lama class. He had a nation of slaves and China, in one of the few great acts they've ever done, took it from him and emancipated those slaves. Now we're so blinded by anti-communism and Eastern mysticism that we're letting the world's largest advocate for slavery and heir to a bullshit ideological throne of slaveholdership gallivant around like he's the wisest man on the fucking planet. Bullshit! Bullshit! Grade-A spiritualistic, nonsensical, irrational, dehumanizing, fucking bullshit!