Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Admitted Atheists And UTI
UTI just got a nice blurb on today's cover story in Surge magazine, an alternative weekly from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. They used this comment from my post about the atheist who was attacked outside of a gym for having "Fuck the skull of Jesus" written on his car window.
It's actually a pretty positive article about atheism.
[link] Reported by The Sun News on May 4, the entire mention was merely a small blurb, one of the police beat nuggets that so many cub reporters cut their teeth on. However, the story gained a life of its own, soon appearing on more than 100 secular humanist/atheist blogs and websites around the world. And as much as people had a problem with the fact that a person was beaten up and robbed, they moreover had a problem with the language - and, some would say, subtle editorializing - in the article's headline and in the article itself.
A reader posting on Unscrewing the Inscrutable (www.brentrasmussen.com) put it thusly: "The expression 'admitted atheist' is unacceptable. He didn't confess to doing something wrong like an 'admitted pedophile.' No one uses the expression 'admitted Christian.' The article's use of 'admitted' is editorializing in the worst way."
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Does this mean UTI if Famous?
Maybe this means UTI is now famous? Good catch on the semantics.
Semi-famous
When first told my best friend that I was going to be co-blogging on UTI he knew Brent's site right away and indicated that Brent was already a bit of a blogebrity.
UTI was already famous! You know...if my best friend knew about it...seriously.
Boo-yah!
Boo-yah!