If this was a story about a christian blogger becoming atheist, it would get no attention whatsoever.
Because it's a story about an atheist blogger becoming a christian, even major news networks are covering it. And who was this "famous blogger"? This is the first time I've ever heard of her. And apparently, she's so popular that the only way to find a link to her blog using google when blocking instances of stories about her conversion is to specifically put both her name and the name of the blog in.
It's just plain absurd. If it were, say, Richard Dawkins, or Morgan Freeman, then I'd understand the coverage. This is the sort of "news" that justifies a one-paragraph "interesting bit of news" sort of thing, not entire articles. And I can tell you right now, if the situation were reversed, and the blogger were converting to atheism, if it were covered at all, the story would be cast in a negative light... at least, that's how it would be over there in American media.
There's a reason why polls in America show that people would be more willing to vote for a muslim for president than for an atheist, and it's by no fault of the atheist or of atheism in general.
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