Astrology. The religion of the sky. This “religion of the sky” was created thousands and thousands of years ago in ancient civilizations such as the Egyptian Empire and the Indus River Valley (modern day Pakistan). The “religion of the sky,” or astrology, was created to predict the fate of princes and kingdoms. It was not until Johannes Kepler in the 17th century, that the world shifted from the study of the pseudo-science of astrology, into the study of scientific astronomy. Oddly enough, in the 21st century, the pseudo-science of astrology still holds an uncanny amount of followers and believers. It amazes me how quick people are to announce their zodiac sign, nevertheless have no basic understanding of the stars and cosmos.
How do people believe that the alignment of the stars at the moment of their birth predicts their future? They were born in a hospital and therefore could not see the stars nor the light that they produced. The doctor who delivered them had more of a gravitational-pull than the planets in the sky. Astrology can easily be disproven by the study of two twins. Twins are born minutes apart on the same exact day; therefore, they have the same zodiac sign, yet each twin can be substantially different. One twin could be struck by lightning at the age of ten, while the other lives to a ripe old age. If astrology was true, shouldn’t both twins have similar traits and similar fates?
Astrology could even be argued to be “racist” and can discriminate people of different zodiac signs. Astrology and racism share many of the same ideologies. The one similarity between the two is in both cases a person is judged by factors beyond their control. Just as people have no control over their skin color or appearance, they have no control over when they were born. If it is racist and stereotypical to assume that African-Americans are lazy, Arabs are terrorists, and Asians are smart, then in retrospect, why is it acceptable to assume that Cancers are emotional, Geminis are optimistic non-conformists, and Aries are born leaders?
Besides, due to the wobble effect of the earth, astrology has been wrong for 2,000 years. Hate to break it to you…
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