Many of us have spent years, perhaps decades, talking back to the TV news and the newspaper. It may seem like odd behavior, but is perhaps a natural response to the one-way communication (indoctrination) we have endured. Now we have the Internet, FreeRepublic and other weblogs. Some readers respond too quickly before reading an article to its completion, or figuring out who is who in an article. I suspect that is the case here with Rennes Templar.
Mark, I appreciate your contributions here and at NewsBusters.
The mass media doesn’t make people atheists. Indeed, atheism is never going to be more than a fringe point of view.
The vastly larger transformation, one well under way in the U.S. and close to completion in western Europe, is towards irreligiousness. An atheist still cares about religion, and in that sense validates religion, while the irreligious have no opinion and no interest. It’s at least as unlikely for the children of an irreligious couple to take on religion as it is for the child of two tone-deaf people to become piano prodigies — damn unlikely, in other words.
Thanks very much, CE; sincerely appreciated.
You are right. I thought Mark wrote the line. I had such a momentum on posting digs at libs I didn’t read it through enough. Good lesson for the future, thanks. RT