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		<title>Lent</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2011/03/09/lent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;m going to observe lent this year. I remember hating Lent as a kid: I was forced to &#8220;give up&#8221; something I liked for reasons not well explained to me. That is, until I did the math and discovered that Sundays don&#8217;t count in Lent and Sundays are never days of fasting, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stem Cell Poem</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/10/20/stem-cell-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel compelled to continue the Streisand effect that the Life Legal Defense Foundation&#8217;s opposition to one Tyson Anderson&#8217;s poem has caused. Apparently, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine sponsored a contest soliciting poems about stem cell research. They did this last year (you can find the winners here) and again this year, in honor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agora</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/06/14/agora/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard about Agora from Jason over at the Wild Hunt. He first mentioned it in &#8217;08, where he extolled it as likely to be a Pagan-friendly work. Well, that was enough for me, so I waited for it to come out. And waited some more. Meanwhile, Jason was giving occasional tidbits: the movie was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spirituality for Skeptics.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/25/spirituality-for-skeptics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/25/spirituality-for-skeptics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=2106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi. My name is John, and I&#8217;m a spiritual atheist. Like &#8220;God,&#8221; the word &#8220;spirituality,&#8221; is a conveniently ambiguous term. That said, it&#8217;s not so vague as to be totally meaningless. I think it captures an area of concern better than any other term out there. I especially like Wikipedia&#8217;s definition: Spirituality can refer to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underground Atheism</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/10/27/underground-atheism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine just started a Free Thought group on Facebook. It&#8217;s secret, so it doesn&#8217;t show up on any of our pages. While I&#8217;m dismayed that he thinks it&#8217;s necessary to meet in secret (rather than meet in a room at the school, an undisclosed location in public is noted on the group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and […] values&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/09/a-nation-of-citizens-who-are-bound-by-ideals-and-%e2%80%a6-values/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is how our president defined our country yesterday. Explicitly denying that it was a &#8220;Christian nation&#8221; and explicitly stating that this fact is one of our &#8220;great strengths&#8221;. It&#8217;s nice to be reminded of this—and by someone so high in the administration! It is vogue for politicians to exclaim &#8220;God bless America!&#8221; Whether or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OMG, go watch Kings, now.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/07/omg-go-watch-kings-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/07/omg-go-watch-kings-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s got it all: atheism, spirituality, god, scifi, and good music!! Hulu&#8217;s got the first four eps up right now (and it doesn&#8217;t keep them forever), so go catch up. It&#8217;s too smart and too well written to stay on the air for long. It&#8217;s the story of Kings David and Saul transposed into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas &amp; England: Creationism &amp; Its Dangers</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/19/texas-england/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Texas is reviewing its science standards, specifically with the desire to remove them altogether. Skepchick has a great discussion of exactly what this means, but here&#8217;s the short version: Texas and California&#8217;s choices for scientific textbooks drives the availability of textbooks nationwide because of their massive marketshare the Texas State Board of Education (TSBE) has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Conservatives are More Likely to Consume Porn</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/03/spark-conservatives-are-more-likely-to-consume-porn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/03/spark-conservatives-are-more-likely-to-consume-porn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/03/spark-conservatives-are-more-likely-to-consume-porn/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Late to the party on this one, I know, sorry. It turns out that conservative (read: religious) states have the highest porn rates in the country. Probably because they&#8217;re not allowed to have deviant (read: fun) sex at home. Meanwhile, people living in enlightened areas of the country have other outlets for their sexual urges, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#Lent09</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/25/lent09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/25/lent09/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I told a professor here (who was running a forum on the Question of God) that my religious background is ex-Catholic but that I am an active blogger in the ex-Mormon part of the Bloggernacle; that my husband is humanist, my father-in-law is Buddhist, and my mother-in-law is First Nations/Pagan. I got an awesome look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sparks: Daylight Atheism</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/03/sparks-daylight-atheism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/03/sparks-daylight-atheism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m catching up on local news (read: blogs) while my cousin is in town (trying not to be too antisocial by spending all my free time blogging) and enjoyed particularly this most recent post at Daylight Atheism: No Holy Ground, a rational look at the conflict in the so-called &#8220;Holy Land&#8221; and how it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Are you really an atheist?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/29/are-you-really-an-atheist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[said the friend sitting next to me at Christmas Eve dinner, with a vague look of disgust on her face, like I&#8217;d just admitted to enjoying self-flagellation. I was in the company of a number of people who had escaped Western religion (all some form of Christianity) and landed firmly in Eastern religion (all some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sparks! (I&#8217;m Back)</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/21/sparks-im-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a few weeks when I first stopped being able to find time to blog, I kept windows open in Safari to the point that it was neigh on impossible to shut down my computer, for fear of losing all the wonderful and amazing links I was going to share! But then I got into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/11/27/thanksgiving-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving is a religious holiday. When the pilgrims first gathered to give thanks that they made it through their first few months in a wild new world, they weren&#8217;t thanking the natives for helping them, they were thanking their god for making the natives to help them. As a harvest festival, it has its roots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sparks: I Couldn&#8217;t Keep Them to Myself</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/11/17/sparks-i-couldnt-keep-them-to-myself/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/11/17/sparks-i-couldnt-keep-them-to-myself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s first YouTube-Side Chat. I&#8217;d love to get the audio in podcast, since I have more time to listen than to watch. I&#8217;m so glad that he&#8217;s doing this (I&#8217;ve been saying for some time that the Fireside Chats need to be brought back, to increase trust and transparency; in this case, also to increase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AWOL</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/11/12/awol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry I&#8217;ve not been posting recently, law school has finally caught up with me and consumed my life. I had to cancel the event that makes the holidays bearable for me (a goose-filled gamer fest) because I simply hadn&#8217;t the time to prepare and plan it. One of the prospective attendants told me that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biblical Fail</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/30/biblical-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to post this, since it&#8217;s lolreligion. By now, I&#8217;m sure everyone has heard that a particular Christian called others to join in prayer at the bronze bull on wall street to ask god to &#8220;shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the &#8216;Lion’s Market,&#8217; or God’s control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: It Seems Like the War on the War on Christmas Starts Earlier Every Year</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/23/spark-it-seems-like-the-war-on-the-war-on-christmas-starts-earlier-every-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And this year, it&#8217;s not even Hallowe&#8217;en first!]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Does Religion Empower Women?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/23/spark-does-religion-empower-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/23/spark-does-religion-empower-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WaPo&#8217;s On Faith asks its panelists Does religion empower women? This is one of the few On Faiths that I&#8217;ll probably read each response to. I&#8217;m looking forward to the Christian/Catholic answer, which I&#8217;ve found generally centers around &#8220;having kids is empowering!!1!&#8221; There is some wonderful evidence for non-child-based empowerment which I&#8217;ve yet to hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confronting Intolerance against Muslims in Politics.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/22/confronting-intolerance-against-muslims-in-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/22/confronting-intolerance-against-muslims-in-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colin Powell&#8217;s endorsement of Obama was important, but perhaps not as significant as his defense of American Muslims. This is where I break with the more dogmatic of my atheist sistren and brethren. While I believe that institutional religion is a net negative in its impact on society, religious labels shouldn&#8217;t be used as slurs [...]]]></description>
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