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		<title>Creation</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2011/03/21/creation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once read (and have since forgotten where or from who—please feel free to correct this quotation or provide a citation if you have one), that Creating is not something that gods do, it is something that they are. Elsewhere, in reading feminist interpretations of the bible (specifically, the time in Eden), I discovered a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worship</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2011/03/16/worship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Charge of the Goddess (a popular pagan prayer/poem written in the form of the goddess telling her people how to worship her) contains the following line: behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals There is much to love in the Charge, which reads as an affirmation of life and love and [...]]]></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>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>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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<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 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>Music Monday: Still Alive</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/13/music-monday-still-alive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/13/music-monday-still-alive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve held off for as long as I could bear to, but it is now time to release this upon the MoF community. From the guy who brought us the classic office zombie song, Re: Your Brains and the classy May Day song, First of May, comes the geek classic Still Alive, the end-credits song [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the stupid things religion comes up with!</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/07/the-stupid-things-religion-comes-up-with/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/07/the-stupid-things-religion-comes-up-with/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, I&#8217;m really sympathetic of religion, having been there (sorta) myself and having many friends and relatives who are still there. But sometimes, there are just no words to describe the stupid depths to which religion drives people. First, we have the Anglican priest who believes that homosexuals should have warning labels (you know, like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the Pulpit Initiative—or, should churches maintain their tax exempt status?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/29/the-pulpit-initiative%e2%80%94or-should-churches-maintain-their-tax-exempt-status/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/29/the-pulpit-initiative%e2%80%94or-should-churches-maintain-their-tax-exempt-status/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Freedom Sunday has come and gone. I didn&#8217;t hear anything on the news this morning about whether or not major changes are in the works, but I&#8217;d like to hear from the MoF crowd about this. Should churches be tax exempt or free to use their spiritual influence to exert political influence (and pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theocracy</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/17/theocracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[*desperately trying to avoid typing &#8220;theoCRAZY!&#8221;* I missed this discussion at school, but have been seeing flyers for a forum on asylum law that state: HOW IMPORTANT IS YOUR FREEDOM OF RELIGION? [...] Come hear [asylum professionals] discuss asylum law and practice. In particular, they will discuss the plight of Christian converts in Iran and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Monday: Personal Jesus</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/01/music-monday-personal-jesus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of my all time favorite songs. Depeche Mode (the peach, with ice cream?) wrote a haunting offer to stand in for a missing element: [wp_youtube]KW3aEimWW10[/wp_youtube] Your own, personal, Jesus. A Jesus you don&#8217;t have to share with the rest of humanity. Someone who cares A wonderful indictment against an indifferent Jesus. Johnny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zombie Jesus</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/28/zombie-jesus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My cousin does a lot of babysitting. She recently babysat a kid who was trying to tell her about a friend&#8217;s imaginary friend, Genius, who was a reverse zombie: he died but then, instead of wanting to eat your brains, he wants us to eat his. It took my (Catholic) cousin a long time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Morning Video Lineup</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/03/sunday-morning-video-lineup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A vid take on MoF&#8217;s Sparks: First up, Stuart Shepard, who I&#8217;d not heard of before today but is apparently a member of Focus on the Family&#8217;s activism arm, is encouraging everyone to encourage his God to rain on Obama&#8217;s acceptance speech. Which seems to me to be incredibly petty: pray for peace? pray for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s (Secret) Prayer</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/27/obamas-secret-prayer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/27/obamas-secret-prayer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During Obama&#8217;s recent visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, according to tradition, he wrote a prayer on a piece of paper and left it there. However, since he is under media scrutiny right now, it was stolen by a young seminary student (who should have known better!). While I disagree completely with its theft, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Training</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/22/spark-training/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/22/spark-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry for all the sparks recently, but I couldn&#8217;t resist this one. Enjoy!]]></description>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t want to F the Ineffable.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/06/i-dont-want-to-f-the-ineffable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/06/i-dont-want-to-f-the-ineffable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I did some bad things during my stint as a Mormon missionary in Japan.  I&#8217;d like to repent of one of them right now. Some of my Japanese friends confided deep, personal spiritual experiences with me.  In several cases I coopted their experiences for my own ends, and using my words, contorted them so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Reflections on your beliefs</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/06/11/spark-reflections-on-your-beliefs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/06/11/spark-reflections-on-your-beliefs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I checked out this survey on a prompt from Pharyngula. I recommend that you do the same. We may indeed be giving the creator of the survey food for thought, but what I found was that it was a good, concrete way to think about my own beliefs, hang-ups, and tendencies. I think it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Fiction &amp; Religion</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/20/science-fiction-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/20/science-fiction-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 21:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, many of you will have heard that one of the Vatican&#8217;s astronomers has indicated that there might be life on other planets. Even that they might be without sin. Many of my favorite science fiction books involve the intersection of religion and space travel (Dune and Ender&#8217;s Game chief among them). But really, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Einstein: Religions are &#8220;childish superstition&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/14/einstein-religions-are-childish-superstition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/14/einstein-religions-are-childish-superstition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 05:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(It&#8217;s that time again – guest post from Zach time.) (Image from Bloomsbury Auctions) Lots of people are talking about a newly-surfaced letter by Einstein, which seems to clarify his ambiguous views on religion with the following strongly-worded statements: The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, [...]]]></description>
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