Argh! Stop with the "Church" thing already!

Ross Douthat seems to have thrown his hat into the ring for the "Clueless Asshat of the Year" award with his latest troll entitled "The Liberal Gloat".  To quote
The liberal image of a non-churchgoing American is probably the “spiritual but not religious” seeker, or the bright young atheist reading Richard Dawkins. But the typical unchurched American is just as often an underemployed working-class man, whose secularism is less an intellectual choice than a symptom of his disconnection from community in general.
Which of course brings to mind those other "unchurched" Americans - you know, the Hindus, Sikhs, Moslems, Buddhists, Jews, etc. who - collectively - happen to, really, not be "underemployed working-class...(with a)... disconnection from community in general".
On the contrary, Hindus and Jews are (by far!) some of the wealthiest religious groups in the US (chart at the bottom), and Buddhists beat out Christians (not by much, but still!).
And seriously, d'you really want to argue that Hindus/Jews/Sikhs/... are, oh, "disconnected from community in general"? Seriously?

So yeah, Ross, when indulging in one of your prolonged fits of Navel gazing, please don't involve us, and if at all possible, STFU...

 

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