{"id":4086,"date":"2010-05-01T16:27:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T00:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=4086"},"modified":"2010-05-01T16:28:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T00:28:28","slug":"s-e-cupp-and-her-future-spiritual-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/s-e-cupp-and-her-future-spiritual-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"S. E. Cupp and her future spiritual journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/scupp-814968833-100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4087\" title=\"scupp-814968833-100\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/scupp-814968833-100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a>In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/author\/scupp\/\">The Daily Caller<\/a> has a blogger named <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/author\/scupp\/\">S. E. Cupp<\/a> who is an avowed atheist and conservative. That being said, I have gone on the record and stated that she&#8217;ll probably be Roman Catholic within 10 years. Not only does she &#8220;aspire&#8221; to be religious, but, her\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/tfk\/2010\/04\/cupp_unsupported.php\">new book defending Christianity from the liberal media makes a lot of flimsy assertions about evolutionary theory<\/a>. She defends Creationism on majoritarian grounds for example, which seems more an example of opportunism than principle.<\/p>\n<p>In a way I think S. E. Cupp is an example of cultural evolution. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ann_Coulter\">Ann Coulter&#8217;s<\/a> career trajectory has taken her to a position where even conservatives don&#8217;t take her seriously. Coulter is a conservative-firebrand-as-performance-artist. There are interesting similarities between Cupp and Coulter. Both are attractive and brainy women with a penchant for right-wing punditry, raised in New England but seasoned at Cornell University. But instead of building intellectual capital, and compounding a reputation for seriousness, I suspect that Cupp is going to maximize her earning power by reinforcing conservative banalities through rhetoric rather than engaging in genuine discursive analysis. Her touch is far softer than Coulter, but she has decades ahead of her to slowly push the boundaries. To see what I&#8217;m saying about lack of challenge, I commend you to watch her being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-ATz6MS9YPU\">interviewed by Brian Lamb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, The Daily Caller has a blogger named S. E. Cupp who is an avowed atheist and conservative. That being said, I have gone on the record and stated that she&#8217;ll probably be Roman Catholic within &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/s-e-cupp-and-her-future-spiritual-journey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[532],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4089,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions\/4089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}