She's baaaack Katherine Kersten's column in Sunday's Strib

[dflprincess]

Per Katie: "Hostility to religion bodes ill for society ithout belief in a higher truth, people may give way to base impulses" and hearing that coming from a Republican I can only say :wtf:

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/47071262.html?elr=KArksc8P:Pc:U0ckkD:aEyKUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr
By KATHERINE KERSTEN, Star Tribune

As a society, we tolerate pastors, priests, rabbis and other religious folks, so long as they confine their message to a vanilla "God is love" theme and bless babies, brides and caskets.

But when religious leaders speak out on the issues of the day -- especially using morally tinged language -- the elite gatekeepers of public opinion in the media, government and academia warn shrilly that a new Dark Age is upon us.

More and more, we see outright hostility to religion -- particularly to Christianity. Consider the wild popularity of a recent spate of best-sellers by "New Atheist" superstars, including Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion" and Christopher Hitchens' "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything."

Far from being dispassionate critics of faith, the New Atheists are zealous crusaders for their own creed: materialism. They are passionately committed to the idea that the universe is a random accident, that transcendent truth is a myth, and that man's life has no inherent purpose or meaning.

Yes materialism is all the fault of the "New Atheists" - never mind those churches that preach the "prosperity Gospel" or the greed is good attitude the Republicans have been selling the last 30 years.

Don't forget to check out the comments

[Eric J in MN]

1. 'Human beings are prone to selfishness, lust, vindictiveness and cruelty.'

So we need religion, she argues.

Where is the proof that religious people are better at resisting any of those things than atheists?

[dflprincess]

2. You'll note that she doesn't mention Pawlenty

who claims to be a Christian but is content to throw the neediest Minnesotans under the bus in the name of his political career.

[trotsky]

3. Uh, yeah, didn't the Strib fire her?

Guess the new right-wing ownership realized she truly was on their side.

[CatholicEdHead]

4. She and Nick Coleman just write on weekends

probably some type of freelance contractor status.

[mascarax]

7. Sundays only for "She" and Nick Coleman

What's interesting is that if there is any effect on sales, they can't attribute to one or the other because they *both* have a Sunday column now.

Not sure why this happened either...thought the split, especially with Coleman, was bitter.

[glinda]

6. That is what I had thought also. Read it somewhere.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I saw that she had a column

but I couldn't bring myself to read it. I thought (hoped) she was gone for good.