Anyone Know This Mindless Twit?

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Permalink Reply by eric stone on June 24, 2012 at 11:15pm

No, but I know lots more who've gone the opposite way!

Permalink Reply by Steph S. on June 24, 2012 at 11:53pm
Well that is very strange.
Permalink Reply by Glen Rosenberg on June 25, 2012 at 12:03am

Having listened to her I think it likely she is a fraud-was always a believer.

Permalink Reply by Steph S. on June 25, 2012 at 12:22am
I had the same thought but I wasn't familiar with this blogger.
Permalink Reply by annet on June 25, 2012 at 12:28am

exactly what i was thinking

Permalink Reply by James M. Martin on June 25, 2012 at 8:00am

My conclusion, too, Glen.  And just possibly a Vatican plant.

Permalink Reply by Tina C. on June 27, 2012 at 7:10pm

I agree, and when ever someone "switches sides" in such a public fashion, I cannot help but think money is involved somehow.

Permalink Reply by George on June 25, 2012 at 12:27am

A "prominent" atheist blogger who hardly anyone has heard of.

Permalink Reply by James M. Martin on June 25, 2012 at 8:01am

Precisely!

Permalink Reply by annet on June 25, 2012 at 12:28am

Her blog is not good reading at all..

She strikes me as an opportunist attention troll that fakes whatever is expedient.  As eric noted, she is outnumbered by the exodus going in the other direction. 


some good comments on her here

Permalink Reply by David Layton on June 25, 2012 at 2:01am

Never heard of her. She is certainly not "prominent" in the atheist community. The religious-leaning media, like CNN (if you think CNN is neutral on religion, type Paula Zahn Now Atheist into a Google search and prepare to be angered), of course pounce on this "prominent" tag provided by the religious blog she posts to. I cannot track down any of her blogs from when she was supposedly an atheist, but judging by her conversion talk, I'd say that she never really was an atheist. She is just too fluent in Catholic-speak to be believable as someone who just stumbled upon Catholicism and thought it was nice. The religionists, especially the Catholics, are going nuts over this, in part because the majority of the traffic in the last couple of decades has been going the other way. Catholics are leaving the church in droves, with a large percentage of them choosing "no faith" (like Julia Sweeney at one time, they fear the "a" word). The religionists may want to believe that her "conversion" is a major blow to active secularists, but it will just pass in a couple of months. Our numbers will swell; theirs will dwindle.

Permalink Reply by James M. Martin on June 25, 2012 at 8:03am

Actually, in the CNN interview, she comes off as really lame.  She can't give any -logical- reasons why she was an atheist, much less why she changed.  Her transformation came off like a person giving up Lay's Potato Chips for the baked variety.  Really silly.  She came off as low I.Q. and just plan silly.

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