Fox News host Gretchen Carlson mistakes atheists for Satanists

[cbayer]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/07/gretchen-carlson-mistakes-atheists-for-satanists/



Fox News host Gretchen Carlson was raked over the online coals on Tuesday for apparently conflating atheism with Satanism, just before one of her guests did the same.

Tuesday morning, Carlson previewed a segment on the Satanist Temple’s proposed Oklahoma Statehouse statue by posting on Twitter, “Atheists unveil Satan statue for OK capitol: smiling kids with goat-faced demon!” She subsequently deleted the tweet, but not before Atheism Tweets captured it:


Later, Carlson refused to apologize for her mistake, writing, “Stop the hate tweets. I made a simple mistake. Thx. [sic] I’m not stupid or asking everyone to believe in my God. Thx.”

In the ensuing discussion, American Atheists president David Silverman argued to Carlson that the Temple had the right to put up their display.

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[JoePhilly]

1. That's because either you believe what she believes, or you are

going to Hell.

Those are the only categories she really recognizes.

[cbayer]

4. Still, it's a stretch between going to hell and being a satanist.

[enlightenment]

2. As a non-TV viewer,

I may have missed the explanation, so please forgive me . . . but I have to ask:

Does Fox clone their newsreaders? They all look the same. Vapid and slightly constipated.

[cbayer]

5. We get about 3 stations in English and one of them is FOX news.

So I have had the opportunity to watch some of it lately.

And, yes, they do look like clones - particularly the women.

It's a look that apparently appeals to their audience.

[okasha]

11. When I was stuck in the hospital

about a year and a half ago, Fox was the only national English-speaking channel available, so I managed to sit--or lie--through a couple 30-minute sections. I remember this particular airhead making particularly ignorant statements. After that it was the Monterrey channel till I got liberated.

[cbayer]

13. I know. Why Fox? Why not at least a more neutral station.

I can't watch it at all.

Thank goodness for Sirius radio.

[underpants]

3. It was an honest mistake

She made the mistake of tweeting without having a TelePrompTer telling her what to say.

Anyway she probably just thinks they are really just factions of the same group - people who live in Athens that like the feel of satin. I mean who doesn't like satin, am I right?

[cbayer]

6. I like satin! I guess that makes me a satinest.

Maybe she was talking about athletic satinists?

[underpants]

7. Yeah athletic satin (looks at camera) that makes sense doesn't it?!?

(Waits for affirmation from cohosts... crickets ...realizes she got booted off the morning couch for a newer blonde ... She's alone now .... So so very alone)

[Warren Stupidity]

8. I take statins and I'm an atheist!

Maybe that's what got her confused?

[cbayer]

9. But are you an athletic atheist on statins who likes satin to sit on?

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

10. Okay now I'm confused...

Are they like the satinistas in el Salvador

[cbayer]

12. Are the santas in El Salvador different than elsewhere?

Are they bandit santas?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

14. She may well be mostly right.

I suspect that atheists or agnostics who practice Satanism as a lifestyle choice significantly outnumber people who actually believe in the Devil and worship him.