Atheists are “Future Muslims”
Debbie Schlussel recently responded to a torrent of angry emails she received for her appearance on CNN and her views on atheists.
In that response she refers to atheists as “hate-filled … future Muslim extremists”. Beyond the bizarre implication that we are all destined to go from non-religious to militantly and violently religious, her comments show her to be extremely religiously intolerant. But it’s probably just childing name-calling. She can’t really believe that around 14% of Americans are going to take up arms against their own country, can she?
Her hatred of of atheists seems to stem from lawsuits attacking led prayer in schools. It seems to me a rather minor point to get so upset about. I find it unlikely that anyone would lose their faith simply because a teacher failed to lead them in prayer.
What really bothers me, though, is that she seems to be totally OK with people being driven from their home town because they are atheists. That was what she was brought on CNN to talk about, and she spent her time badmouthing atheists.