{"id":9347,"date":"2014-08-06T10:18:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T10:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=9347"},"modified":"2014-08-06T11:44:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T11:44:47","slug":"conservatives-probably-respect-atheists-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/conservatives-probably-respect-atheists-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives respect atheists less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ajxa24r7vy8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This clip by S. E. Cupp is making the rounds. I often find Cupp to be glib, so it&#8217;s no surprise that I disagree with many of the details of what she is saying. In particular it struck me as strange to listen to her talk about how conservatives respect atheists. Atheists are held in low esteem by the American public as a whole, let alone by conservatives. The general social survey has a question, SPKATH, which states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are always some people whose ideas are considered bad or dangerous by other people. For instance, somebody who is\u00a0against churches and religion&#8230; a. If such a person wanted to make a speech in your (city\/town\/community) against churches and religion, should he be allowed to speak, or not?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are fractions who would allow this person to speak or not not in 1972-1990:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/charts.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9348\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/charts.png\" alt=\"charts\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/charts.png 600w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/charts-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are fractions who would allow this person to speak or not not in 2000-2012:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/charts2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9349\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/charts2.png\" alt=\"charts2\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/charts2.png 600w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/charts2-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liberals tend to be more accepting of atheists making a speech than conservatives. Interestingly even in the 2000s ~20 percent of self-identified extreme liberals would still not allow an atheist speak. As opposed to ~40 percent of self-identified extreme conservatives.<\/p>\n<p><b>Addendum:<\/b> To be clear about the intent behind this post, <b>I&#8217;m all about keeping it real.<\/b> I think it is acceptable to be an atheist on the Right. A substantial proportion of libertarians are atheists. Even among non-libertarian conservatives it&#8217;s an acceptable position. But this is really mostly relevant at the elite levels pundits and policy professionals. Atheists just aren&#8217;t popular at the grass roots. There aren&#8217;t that many conservative atheists or atheist conservatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This clip by S. E. Cupp is making the rounds. I often find Cupp to be glib, so it&#8217;s no surprise that I disagree with many of the details of what she is saying. In particular it struck me as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/conservatives-probably-respect-atheists-less\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347"}],"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=9347"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9354,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions\/9354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}