Losing our Religion
S. E. Cupp is a conservative political columnist and cultural critic. She wrote a book a few years ago (2010), a compendium of anecdotes. It’s entitled Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media’s Attack on Christianity. In the book, she documents scores of examples of bias against Christianity in the media, both national and local.
She discusses the attitude that Hollywood elites have toward Christianity and the bias against Christians’ view of homosexuality. In the chapter on evolution, she shows how the media presents evolution as a fact but does not allow proponents of intelligent design the same reporting. If liberal politicians behave immorally, the media turns its collective head while if “conservative” politicians act immorally, the media will accuse them of acting hypocritically.
You do not have to be exposed to the news very long to see that Ms. Cupp’s book is just the tip of the iceberg. What is interesting, however, about the book is that Ms. Cupp is a self-proclaimed atheist.
That makes her book remarkable. But not, perhaps, for the reason you might think. I appreciate it that an atheist is defending a Christian’s right to believe and speak what he/she wants to believe and speak and to practice our religion freely and be presented honestly in the news reports.
Over and over again, Ms. Cupp argues for “truth,” “fairness,” and “equal treatment” in her book. Yet, as an atheist she has no foundation on which to argue for “truth, fairness, and equal treatment!” Her “flower” is “fairness,” but she has cut it off from its roots (theism).
The point is that if there is no God, then there is no objective truth. If there is no Jesus Christ, who can argue for what is fair? Jesus came to die for all mankind and that cornerstone doctrine of Christianity argues that all men are equal in the sight of God; indeed, all are equal sinners in the sight of God.
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Thus, I found it very ironic that Ms. Cupp is arguing for equal treatment for Christians when, in a non-theistic world, the media is actually living out what they actually believe. I could not take seriously someone who believes in aliens. The liberal media can not either. They believe in “survival of the fittest” and if liberal theology is more fit, it will survive. The liberal media is living out their values. Ms. Cupp, unfortunately, is piggy-backing off of Christians’ values. In fact, on the last page of the book, she writes, “As an atheist I like to think that Judaeo-Christian values form the points of my moral compass” (pg. 235).
In her conclusion, when she discusses “what can be done,” she writes: “And soon, it will mean the demise of Christian values altogether” (pg. 233). If there is no God, there are no “Christian values” and who cares, anyway? If there is no God there are no objective values.
Finally, relative to Ms. Cupp’s book, in the next to the last paragraph, she writes: “But when the president [Obama] acknowledges or celebrates American atheism, he is acknowledging and celebrating nobody and nothing. It doesn’t mean anything to applaud atheism, because atheism isn’t a creed or a value system, it’s the absence of one” (pg. 235; emph. in orig.).
So, Ms. Cupp’s atheism (which is “nothing”) is the foundation of her “Judaeo-Christian values”? Quite frankly, her position is no more reasonable (albeit more moral) than the liberal media.
Morals argue for the existence of a moral law giver, a moral standard.
–Paul Holland
