Faith, Politics, and Power: Talia Lavin on the Christian Right's America

Listening to Michael Shermer Show. You mentioned being a cultural Christian That's an interesting phrase'cause um you know, when I and Hershey Alley came out uh a few months ago, maybe six months ago now as a As a Christian, she was one of the most famous atheists in the world.

Um and then she explained the reason she did this, well at least initially. um was that at least the Christians will stand up to the Islamic terrorists and extremists that, you know. Wanna destroy Western culture or whatever. And then she said, Well, there was also personal reasons for it. Anyway, Richard Dawkins, probably the world's most famous atheist, uh said, Well, I guess I'm a cultural Christian in the sense that You know, I was born and raised in a western country, Great Britain.

And uh so and and we were a Christian nation. And and so yeah, I guess I am Culturally that, so I guess I would have to say Born and raised in the In America, yeah, I guess I'm a cultural Christian. in some kind of loose sense.

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