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		<title>Tembatsu</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2011/04/09/tembatsu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2011/04/09/tembatsu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the 9.1 earthquake and subsequent tsunami, my Facebook was abuzz with people publicly praying and soliciting prayers for Japan. There were also those who posted links to the Red Cross or exhorted their friends to text REDCROSS to 90999, but they were markedly fewer. It didn&#8217;t take long for people to start interpreting these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the Reason for the Season</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/12/21/the-reason-for-the-season/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/12/21/the-reason-for-the-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always hated the phrase &#8220;Jesus is the reason for the season&#8221; though I couldn&#8217;t put my finger on just why until I got out of Catholicism. My parents were firm believers in the War on Christmas (which, as Jon Stewart once said, &#8220;Seems to start earlier every year&#8221;), a sentiment that seems to me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where is my god?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/07/22/where-is-my-god/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/07/22/where-is-my-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was at an Italian restaurant with some friends recently when we started talking to some locals (the place had shut down, so it was just us all and the owners; we were all playing guitar, piano, and dancing—Europe is awesome!). One had a stone that looked almost like turquoise. When I asked about it, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1492</guid>
		<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>Texas &amp; England: Creationism &amp; Its Dangers</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/19/texas-england/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/19/texas-england/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<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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		<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>Sexual Identity &amp; Faith: Growing Up Gay in a Christian Family</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/25/sexual-identity-faith-growing-up-gay-in-a-christian-family/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/25/sexual-identity-faith-growing-up-gay-in-a-christian-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/25/sexual-identity-faith-growing-up-gay-in-a-christian-family/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is another lecture that was put on at my school, this time by the ACLU, in response to Prop 8. The California Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments about the Constitutionality of Prop 8 a week from tomorrow. In preparation for that, the local ACLU chapter invited to gay people who grew up in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#Lent09</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/25/lent09/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/25/lent09/#comments</comments>
		<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>Spark: Pre-Celebrate Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/12/spark-pre-celebrate-valentines-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/12/spark-pre-celebrate-valentines-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And watch this vid. An MoF favorite singer and an MoF favorite cause: Regina Spektor and No On H8. Do this before V day and enjoy your partnership on Valentine&#8217;s Day guilt-free (and full of hope). Let&#8217;s dedicate this Valentine&#8217;s Day to love.]]></description>
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		<title>Blog for Choice 2009: My Top Pro-Choice Hopes</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/22/blog-for-choice-2009-my-top-pro-choice-hopes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/22/blog-for-choice-2009-my-top-pro-choice-hopes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Blog for Choice Day and I encourage everyone to visit the blogroll of bloggers taking part and to visit their blogs, if only for this one post. Also, feel free to revisit my posts from &#8217;07 and &#8217;08. This year&#8217;s topic is &#8220;What is your top pro-choice hope for President Obama and/or the new [...]]]></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>Mary in Catholicism: Close to my heart (Spark)</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/30/mary-in-catholicism-close-to-my-heart-spark/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/30/mary-in-catholicism-close-to-my-heart-spark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/30/mary-in-catholicism-close-to-my-heart-spark/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two recent news stories impressed upon me the fact that I will always be some kind of Catholic. Even if it&#8217;s ex-Catholic. My first step in rejecting religion was exploring my own. This started as what I later knew to be feminist critique of Catholicism. The more I learned, the more it seemed clear to [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/29/are-you-really-an-atheist/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/21/sparks-im-back/#comments</comments>
		<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>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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1309</guid>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1306</guid>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/30/biblical-fail/</guid>
		<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>Prop 4: the Political Gets Personal</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/28/prop-4-the-political-gets-personal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/28/prop-4-the-political-gets-personal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1295</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If passed, this law will have nothing to do with me: I am not a teenage girl, I am unlikely to get one pregnant, and I don&#8217;t have any children. When I was the age during which I might have been affected by a law like this, I did not live in California. But this [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/23/spark/</guid>
		<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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