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	<title>Mind on Fire &#187; Getting over Religion</title>
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		<title>This Blog is Not for You (Unless it is for You).</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/09/19/this-blog-is-not-for-you-unless-it-is-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/09/19/this-blog-is-not-for-you-unless-it-is-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Doubt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In spite of my various attempts to clarify my motives, people continue to ask why I have chosen to be so noisy and public as I exited the LDS Church. Most of these questions (and the occasional accusation that I&#8217;m insincere, or an attention whore) come from people who seem to be deeply connected to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Getting Personal.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/06/12/getting-personal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/06/12/getting-personal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting over Religion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1643</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have mixed feelings about the discussion that&#8217;s taking place at my maybe I&#8217;m being ex&#8217;d post, and I wanted to work out my unease out loud. Though I&#8217;m capable of it, I don&#8217;t like rational argument when discussing my personal religious experience. I&#8217;m not competitive. I don&#8217;t really have anything to prove. I prefer [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>On Ritual Throat-Slitting, Temples, Cultish Behavior, Sancity, and Criticism.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/06/12/on-throat-slitting-temples-cultish-behavior-sancity-and-criticism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/06/12/on-throat-slitting-temples-cultish-behavior-sancity-and-criticism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting over Religion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Several of you have directed my attention to what I believe may be the post that offended LDS muckety-mucks enough to invite me to a disciplinary council. It&#8217;s a video blog entry in which I show and comment on a brief excerpt of HBO&#8217;s Big Love depiction of the temple veil ceremony, I read from [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>I Think I Was Just Informed of My Pending Excommunication.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/06/10/i-think-i-was-just-informed-of-my-pending-excommunication/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/06/10/i-think-i-was-just-informed-of-my-pending-excommunication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting over Religion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the local Mormon Stake President came to the door, I was half-hoping it was Carolyn, wanting to share a glass of Layer Cake Shiraz (that she had recommended) while our wives were at paddling practice. The kids were wrapping up dinner and Isaac and I were sitting on the couches enjoying warm conversation and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>153</slash:comments>
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		<title>MoF Podcast &#8211; Episode 001: Interview with Brecken Chinn Swartz</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/26/mof-podcast-episode-001-interview-with-brecken-chinn-swartz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/26/mof-podcast-episode-001-interview-with-brecken-chinn-swartz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1533</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a long hiatus, I&#8217;m starting the podcast back up. There are a few changes, however: I&#8217;m abandoning the &#8220;Atheist&#8217;s Prayer&#8221; title, and rebooting this as simply the &#8220;Mind on Fire podcast.&#8221; The content will range widely, but will include stories I&#8217;ve written, interviews and conversations, and fun audio projects like the First of May [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Happy.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/21/happy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/21/happy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1525</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m happy. This is a very strange feeling for me and one that was foreign. But I&#8217;d been noticing it of late: things don&#8217;t piss me off, my short fuse has gotten longer, and I generally approach things with equanimity. And people. I like people now. It was hard for me to identify this fact [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mind on Fire First of May Celebration Project.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/18/mind-on-fire-first-of-may-celebration-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/18/mind-on-fire-first-of-may-celebration-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1511</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All right, folks, come hither and hearken unto my latest hare-brained scheme: Have any of you heard the Jonathan Coulton classic, First of May? If you haven&#8217;t, here it is (warning: there&#8217;s literally some fucking language in there). If you have, I know you&#8217;re all like &#8220;MST LISSEN NAO&#8221;, so here it is. See how [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</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>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/09/a-nation-of-citizens-who-are-bound-by-ideals-and-%e2%80%a6-values/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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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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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mind on Fire Vlog &#8211; Episode One: &#8220;I would suffer my life to be taken.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/31/mind-on-fire-vlog-episode-one-i-would-suffer-my-life-to-be-taken/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/31/mind-on-fire-vlog-episode-one-i-would-suffer-my-life-to-be-taken/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting over Religion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1482</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This episode is 94% Temple, 6% Beer. Mostly I talk about the throat-slitting penalty that was removed from the endowment ceremony in 1990, when I still had the (mis)fortune of experiencing it. I would love to hear your feedback. Update: Most of my attributions got edited out (I had to seriously shorten my ramblings, believe [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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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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		<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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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Spark: Survey says&#8230;In the US, Organized Religion Losing to Freelancers.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/10/spark-survey-saysin-the-us-organized-religion-losing-to-freelancers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/10/spark-survey-saysin-the-us-organized-religion-losing-to-freelancers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/10/spark-survey-saysin-the-us-organized-religion-losing-to-freelancers/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According this US News and World Report article, one of the biggest finds from the new American Religious Identification Survey is rise of the &#8220;nones&#8221; and the bleeding of traditional institutions&#8217; membership. More people are choosing to call themselves non-denominational, spiritual, or not religious at all. In terms of percentage of population, the biggest gains [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>LDS Temple Ceremony goes Prime Time.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/07/lds-temple-ceremony-goes-prime-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/07/lds-temple-ceremony-goes-prime-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently some aspect of the LDS temple ceremony will be portrayed on HBO&#8217;s Big Love (tonight?). Here&#8217;s a picture that was forwarded to me, apparently from TV Guide: Mormons are decrying this as sacrilegious and disrespectful, of course, but as one of thousands who was hoodwinked into going through the ceremony and socially coerced into [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>54</slash:comments>
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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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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Music Monday: Climb That Mountain High</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/02/music-monday-climb-that-mountain-high/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/02/music-monday-climb-that-mountain-high/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been listening to this recently and it&#8217;s kept me going as law school ties me up in its basement, feeding me only bread and water, and negotiating a ransom exchange with my family husband. I keep getting the feeling that the majority of my family would like me to settle down and start having [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<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>Because who doesn&#8217;t like Eddie Izzard?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/10/because-who-doesnt-like-eddie-izzard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/10/because-who-doesnt-like-eddie-izzard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s a rhetorical question by the way, so quiet, you. Zip it! The following makes a good drinking game: one swallow from a goblet of consecrated wine whenever you hear (or think you hear) about the Pope, a shot of bad gin for each time one of the Henry VIII&#8217;s wives is mentioned (you&#8217;ll have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Warren&#8217;s not just anti-gay</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/03/spark-warrens-not-just-anti-gay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But also anti-woman! A true uniter. See here for his creepy-ass discussion of why divorce is worse than your spouse abusing you (hint: because if you divorce, then God gets to abuse you! And whose abuse would you rather?) Ugh. via.]]></description>
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		<title>Sparks: Daylight Atheism</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/03/sparks-daylight-atheism/</link>
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		<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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