Posted on 08/05/2014 9:49:44 AM PDT by EveningStar
Conservative writer and CNN talking head S.E. Cupp recently put out a video describing how she has been welcomed among conservatives even though she is an atheist. This led Hot Air's Allahpundit to chime in with his own experiences, citing myself and National Review's Charles Cooke as other examples of atheists on the Right. And we're not the only ones. There's Heather Mac Donald and Walter Olson, and a whole website devoted to the issue. Among marquee names, there are a few famous agnostics/atheists like Charles Krauthammer and George Will.
When you start looking, we're everywhere.
I pretty much agree with Cupp about not feeling excluded. Heck, The Federalist even encourages me to comment on the Bible from an unbeliever's perspective. Yes, I get a fair number of readers who disagree with me, but as a general rule Christians tend to be annoyingly nice critics. Environmentalists will tell me they wish I would die; Christians tell me they're praying for me. I try to return the favor by not demonizing Christians, so to speak, in the way that the Richard Dawkins "New Atheist" crowd does.
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Unfortunately for this guy's thesis is there is a religious foundation for our freedom and Americansim.
It sounds as though he really has a problem with co-existing with this reality. Why can't he/they just be content to enjoy those freedoms, which hold that you don't have to be a Christian to benefit from our system?
One of the differences I’ve long noted between leftists and constitutionalists (”liberal” and “conservative” don’t mean much anymore) is that those on the left demand lock-step agreement on all issues and constitutionalsts tend to enjoy the areas where we agree and ignore those areas where we disagree. I know few people on the right who would disavow someone on the basis of religion alone. In this crowd, Jews, Catholics, Baptists and others seem to be more interested in what’s held in common than in seething over differences. Usually.
Count me as an annoyingly nice critic.
Tempatation.
I don’t mind atheists as long as they mind their own business and don’t promote it as if it were a religion.
What atheists have to offer the right? They are wrong about fewer things than Obama is?
"He" is a she.
Try reading the article. She makes some good points.
Try reading the article. She makes some good points.
It's Jake from State Farm!
Then Robert’s parents have played a cruel joke on her.
Yes, he wrote the piece based upon her comments.
My mistake.
Without belief in God there can be no rational basis for a belief in individual liberty.
This demonstrates atheistic conservatism to be logically incoherent.
I don’t care what you people say about an athiest. I’d have her calling out for God in six minutes. Not guilty!
Well said.
You have a god if you have a truth you seek to follow.. so are you really an atheist?
exactly right.
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