I think a major reason why they chose him is because of what he's been through in his childhood in apartheid South Africa, and how that gives him perspective on whats happening in America right now. His mom is black and his dad is white, in a time where his very existence was illegal.
Also, you don't have to be an atheist to be critical of religious extremism. Jon isn't.
Biggest issues right now in America:
1) Income Inequality - check
2) Climate Change - check (assumed)
3) Racial Unrest - check
4) LGBT Rights - check
5) 2016 election - As an immigrant, he'll have an outsider's perspective, which I think will be gold.
Also, you don't have to be an atheist to be critical of religious extremism. Jon isn't.
Biggest issues right now in America:
1) Income Inequality - check
2) Climate Change - check (assumed)
3) Racial Unrest - check
4) LGBT Rights - check
5) 2016 election - As an immigrant, he'll have an outsider's perspective, which I think will be gold.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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