JustASC

My column this week is about the ADL’s new poll about religion, morality, and Hollywood:

…[R]eligion is under “attack”?

I guess it is if you spend a lot of time watching television, or going to the movies, or playing video games. It’s a violent, promiscuous, narcissistic world inside the cable box or on the big screen. And it would be a particularly bold and insidious attack if there were no way to escape it (the way that, say, theocracies enforce conformity).

But if you are talking about “religion, moral values, and Hollywood,” there is always an alternative. You can change the channel or turn off the television.

UPDATE: In the same column I hyperbolize:

No politician with ambitions beyond freeholder would dare acknowledge that he or she is an atheist.

But a colleague sent me a link to an article about Rep. Pete Stark, the 18-term Democratic congressman from California, who told a coalition of secular and atheist groups that he is “a Unitarian who does not believe in a Supreme Being.”

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