Reporting on religion for the major newspapers, two reporters had it with god. One is the LA Times reporter William Lobdell who published a book Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America-and Found Unexpected Peace. The other reporter it Stephen Bates who writes in the Guardian – How I became an agnostic:
“The thing that astounded me was the vituperation directed not at other faiths (a degree of Islamophobia came later) but at those who happened to disagree within the same faith communities.
You get evangelical publications denouncing “liberals” within the Church of England and claiming they are not really Christian, there are reactionary Catholic publications sneering similarly at modernists and attacking those who do not wish for a return of the Latin mass as somehow lesser beings. Attitudes which might otherwise seem quaint, dated or toxic are given free rein…”
(via The Reason Project)
- Further Reading:
- 10th Circuit – Court reporters are not ‘authors’ of what they transcribe
- Belief and Religion as Love and Marriage
- Office Etiquette Prohibition on Politics and Religion
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