Stephen Miller, Donald Trumps Policy Advisor, Once Wrote That Atheists Were Inherently Selfish
February 14, 2017
by Hemant Mehta
Stephen Miller, the Chief Policy Advisor to Donald Trump, is the latest member of Trump’s inner circle to make the news for spreading lies and being a real-life meme waiting to be mocked. Over the weekend, he repeated the myth that massive voter fraud contributed to Trump’s popular vote loss in the election, a lie that Trump praised him for saying.
Miller’s history before the election isn’t any more flattering, something we’re discovering as more of his past articles come to light.
One of those articles, written when Miller was a student at Duke, criticized atheists as having no moral compass:
I’ll let the facts speak for themselves: New polling data shows religious Americans donate four times more than secular Americans, and those who attend church are a staggering 23 times more likely to volunteer.
Atheists may talk about humanism and justice, but when you don’t believe in a soul or the ultimate truth of goodness and morality, then why live your life except in whatever fashion most plainly and immediately benefits you?
No just society can survive which abandons God.
That came from an article in which Miller, a self-described “practicing Jew,” argued that there should be a “Christmas tree on the quad and a Nativity scene in the Bryan Center.”
He doesn’t cite his sources — surprise! — but it’s hardly an argument in favor of religion that people of faith are more likely to donate and volunteer (even when you exclude giving time or money to their churches). It’s not because they’re religious. It’s because church provides a wonderful vehicle for giving and volunteering. That’s not sarcasm — it’s one of the things churches do remarkably well.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/02/14/stephen-miller-donald-trumps-policy-advisor-once-wrote-that-atheists-were-inherently-selfish/