Barbara Bradley Hagerty felt obligated to go find some rambunctious New Atheist for her series on religion on NPR, and guess who she scavenged up? Yeah, me. Just got off the phone. You'll have to listen for it sometime on Thursday morning to find out what I said.
I might get some more hate mail this week. Oh, boy!
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Barbara Bradley Hagerty has lately been polluting NPR with a series of superficial fluff pieces on religion — I've just groaned and turned the radio off when she comes on.
The story Barbara Bradley Hagerty cobbled together from interviews with atheists is now up. It's called "A Bitter Rift Divides Atheists", and it's very strange.
Oh, dog. Discussion of the conflict between science and religion. Francis Collins comes up first. Atheists are shrill. Human genome. Morality is a pointer to god. C.S. Lewis. Fine tuning. Atheists are arrogant.
I blame Barbara Bradley Hagerty — or at least, she is the face of religious inanity at NPR.