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rug

(82,333 posts)
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 07:18 PM Aug 2014

Fox News Is Really Freaked Out by Atheists

The network’s customer base is afraid, and nothing in the news business sells faster than fear.

By CJ Werleman

August 14, 2014 | In a recent online video for Crossfire, CNN political pundit and self-proclaimed atheist S.E. Cupp claimed conservative atheists are “better” than liberal atheists, and said she does not believe the “myth” that conservatism is “hostile” to atheism. “In fact, I’d go so far as to say conservatism is far more intellectually honest and respectful of atheism than liberalism has been,” she said.

Wait, what?

Cupp says she believes it is atheists who are disseminating “the idea that they are somehow disenfranchised or left out of the political process,” but that has not been her experience as a conservative.

Now, CNN is not Fox News, but she acts like she has never heard of the Republican Party’s media arm: Fox News.

http://www.alternet.org/media/fox-news-really-freaked-out-atheists

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Fox News Is Really Freaked Out by Atheists (Original Post) rug Aug 2014 OP
My late FIL was an atheist Rushbot teenagebambam Aug 2014 #1
Did you ever hear him explain why? rug Aug 2014 #2
Nope. teenagebambam Aug 2014 #4
As he says, they sell fear and making atheists into godless and cbayer Aug 2014 #3
There, their, and they're cleanhippie Aug 2014 #5

teenagebambam

(1,592 posts)
4. Nope.
Sat Aug 16, 2014, 08:28 AM
Aug 2014

He owned his own business, and it seemed to be tied up with what sorts and how much tax he had to pay...otherwise very socially moderate. We tried to avoid talk of politics because we were so diametrically opposed.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
3. As he says, they sell fear and making atheists into godless and
Sat Aug 16, 2014, 02:25 AM
Aug 2014

ruthless characters that want to destroy life as you know it is there game.

SE Cupp is a whole different story. If they want to be afraid, it is her they should be afraid of.

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