Does Dan Rather practice any particular religion? Was he raised in any particular religion? I never found anything in his biography that mentioned his religious beliefs or disbelief one way or another.
I assume this was meant for GQ.
Anyway, I have to admit, my brief googling did not turn up anything. Did you read his autobiography? It sounds like you did, but it is pretty new.
He was born on Halloween so his soul was consecrated to Satan.
Okay, I couldn’t find any reference but if I were to guess based on his family background, I’d say Baptist.
He believes in an all-powerful being named Kenneth who beams messages of love and hope into his head on a special radio frequency.
Mine did, but just the one word, uncapitalized answer “jewish” here. Not the most credible of answers, but it’s a start. Maybe.
Yes, I found some places that claimed Rather is Jewish. But they seemed to be the kind of places that believe the Jews control all television and movies as a means of feeding their liberal propaganda to real Christian Americans.
Rather was actually vindicated on that one. They found the guy who attacked him. It was a mentally deranged man named William Tager who believed his mind was being controlled by television broadcasts. One day he happened to see Rather on the street and he attacked him. Tager escaped unidentified on that occasion. And the nation treated the incident like a joke.
Not so funny was when Tager tried to walk on to the set of the Today show with a gun eight years later. Cameraman Campbell Montgomery intercepted him and Tager killed Montgomery. A prison psychologist was interviewing Tager and Tager told him about his earlier encounter with Rather.
Tager, incidentally, was released from prison in 2010.
What do you mean “vindicated”? Did people think Rather was making it up?
I only found the one site with the one word so there wasn’t enough infor to ascribe any sort of agenda to the answer. Thanks for the background.
Maybe he’s simply a “none” or an “un” and this may be the start of a new trend.
Or maybe he believes that his personal faith has no business in reporting the news and leaves his personal life personal.
StG
What? Why? What’s he hiding?
I don’t think many people thought he made it up. But it was treated as if it was a joke rather than a serious assault.
Yes, his father was an executive at Procter and Gamble.
Which is why he wrote an autobiography.
I did not read his autobiography, but I would be willing to read it.
That’s certainly a possibility. However in own life experience whenever the subject would come up, most people have no qualms about saying YES I am a (fill in the blank) even if they are atheist, agnostic, Buddhist, Catholic, Baptist, Jewish, Muslim, whatever. While it’s true that many people are squeamish about actually discussing their belief (or lack thereof) in a Supreme Being, my own experience has been that most people don’t have a problem DECLARING A BELIEF OR DISBELIEF if the subject were to come up.