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In an interview, Poundstone commented that she, although an atheist, really liked this blind gospel singing group from Alabama.
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In her HBO special "Paula Poundstone goes to Harvard" she says that she "didn't believe in anything" about religion, and makes a few religious jokes.
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From her page at the Mother Jones site.
[Q]: I assume you are a Jewish liberal, like myself. Do you have any opinions about why Jews tend to be more liberal as a whole?
A: I am quite flattered that you view me as a liberal Jew like yourself. Although raised a conservative Methodist, I am, in fact, a liberal atheist. Many people mistake me for Irish.
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In an August 1999 appearance on the Hollywood Squares Paula was asked how long the flood lasted in the biblical story Noah's ark. She responded with a few funny answers and then proclaimed I don't know I am an atheist!
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Another new quote: a reader reports that (in June? 1999) "E! had a show about religion in Hollywood. Most of the actors and actresses interviewed were decidedly spriritual (in mostly non-conventional ways). There was one four-second clip, sandwiched between all the others without editorial comment, in which Paula Poundstone said, "I'm an atheist, so I don't really know where spirituality fits in for me . . . a devout atheist."