{"id":756,"date":"2012-11-18T10:38:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T15:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=756"},"modified":"2012-11-18T10:38:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T15:38:23","slug":"new-york-times-op-ed-piece-by-ross-douthat-insults-majority-of-us-voters-including-secularists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2012\/11\/18\/new-york-times-op-ed-piece-by-ross-douthat-insults-majority-of-us-voters-including-secularists\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Op-Ed piece by Ross Douthat insults majority of US voters, including secularists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Will people like this loser for once admit responsibility for their defeat?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sour grapes. That is the abstract version of the tantrum<\/a> appearing in the New York Times today, throwing ignorant slurs at the voters Mr. Douthat doesn’t like. This is the part that pertains to secularists.<\/p>\n

Or consider the secular vote, which has been growing swiftly and tilts heavily toward Democrats. The liberal image of a non-churchgoing American is probably the \u201cspiritual but not religious\u201d seeker, or the bright young atheist reading Richard Dawkins. But the typical unchurched American is just as often an underemployed working-class man, whose secularism is less an intellectual choice than a symptom of his disconnection from community in general.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Shh. Don’t tell him, but those he dismisses as “unchurched” are a lot more likely to financially stable<\/a>. Likewise, almost 90% of those without a religious affiliation are not<\/a> “seekers”, as he seems to think.)<\/p>\n

As offensive as the article is, I, for one, welcome these insults. They will go a long way to ensure the coalition that defeated the religious right<\/a> will stay in place for the foreseeable future and accelerate the descent of the right wingers into oblivion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sour grapes. That is the abstract version of the tantrum appearing in the New York Times today, throwing ignorant slurs…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}