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"So, if we have a non-believer wearing his non-belief on his sleeve, then shouldn't all hosts wear their own belief systems on theirs?"
I don't actually have a problem with that--it's the exploited belief systems of the believing hosts who might try a call-out in response, or the guests who try and bring their own faith-bias up on such a show, that would suffer from exposure. In my opinion, the problem with an open confrontation with non-belief for believers is quite often the discovery that one's own house is "builded upon sand." People often don't "think about what they do think about" as the great film Inherit the Wind puts it. The "kiss of death" problem would not so much be a rant against "fundamentalism", so much as a challenge to mainstream belief and the culture of assuming that most people by and large are believers, that would become problematic. The question of just "what" people do believe, and the realization that even among Christians, historically, there has been dissent deemed "war-worthy" might be seen as too much.
(The "Christian Nation" myth about America absolutely depends upon the idea that there is only one kind of Christianity. As a nation that reveres the Puritan pilgrims, it helps that we historically ignore that Oliver Cromwell was a Puritan, and therefore sidestep exactly why England kind of wanted Puritans to be elsewhere. We also don't consider Roger Williams, the Quakers and how they failed to bare the head to kings, and also were all against war and slavery, and we ignore the fights between Catholics and Baptists and so on that made Jefferson write up a creed about religious freedom in Virginia. In other words, we aren't often enough exposed to the idea that religion in America is also about dissent, and also apostasy in America, and even unbelief.)
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