TV’s Favorite Family Dumps Religion
…raditional religion under siege in popular culture? Are the new atheists, abetted by comedians like Bill Maher and Julia Sweeney, providing cultural running room for atheists and strong agnostics; those who aver, ‘I don’t know and neither do you’? (Sweeney’s Letting Go of God is currently on Showtime.) But back to Modern Family, and this episode’s second act, in which Manny (Rico Rodriguez), Jay’s stepson, weighs in on Jay’s nature spirituality. O…
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