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		<title>Perfection</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2011/09/20/perfection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2011/09/20/perfection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of Perfection In Heaven has been crossing my path recently, most likely via a podcast (Atheists Talk (iTunes link) by Minnesota Atheists, Ask an Atheist, the Atheist Community of Austin&#8216;s Atheist Experience or Non-Prophets (iTunes link), or FFRF&#8216;s Freethought Radio). This is the proposition that (a) we are fallen, imperfect beings unworthy of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easter</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2011/04/23/easter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2011/04/23/easter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 04:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holiday spirit is in the air and I&#8217;ll be spending the day with friends, family, and more friends—the best way to do a holiday, in my opinion. But as the earth springs back to life (yes, it&#8217;s visible, even Where There Are No Seasons), I find myself gazing out of windows and breathing more deeply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feminism in Religion</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2011/04/15/feminism-in-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2011/04/15/feminism-in-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=2770</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post has an online discussion forum called On Faith. Periodically (once a week?), they submit a question/topic to a panel of writers from various religions. This week&#8217;s is What is religion’s role in gender discrimination? I highly recommend the answers. A Catholic priest quotes Pope John Paul II and asserts &#8220;that man and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agora</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/06/14/agora/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/06/14/agora/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=2339</guid>
		<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>Limitations of the First Amendment</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/02/limitations-of-the-first-amendment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/02/limitations-of-the-first-amendment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America reads (in pertinent part): Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. This has, historically, been interpreted to include other official acts by the government. Here, &#8220;Congress&#8221; is read (due to the context of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Young Americans Losing Their Religion.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/05/06/spark-young-americans-losing-their-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/05/06/spark-young-americans-losing-their-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 04:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1586</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This article on how the X and Y generations are leaving religion like lemmings turning back from the cliff is actually from xJane, but she&#8217;s chin-deep in finals, so asked me to pass this on to you all. Money quote: &#8220;Many of them are people who would otherwise be in church,&#8221; Putnam said. &#8220;They have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Gay Legal Rights Upheld</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/13/spark-gay-legal-rights-upheld/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/13/spark-gay-legal-rights-upheld/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nationwide, Christians who refuse to provide services on the basis of gender orientation are losing legal battles.]]></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>
		<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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		<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>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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		<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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		<title>Finally, Some Good News!</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/18/finally-some-good-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/18/finally-some-good-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, the Obama Administration signed onto the UN call for the decriminalization of homosexuality. In 77 countries, it is a crime to be attracted to members of the same sex, and in seven, merely being gay is punishable by death. This UN declaration has nothing to do with visiting rights or adoption or insurance for [...]]]></description>
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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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		<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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		<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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		<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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		<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>Spark: Pre-Celebrate Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/12/spark-pre-celebrate-valentines-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/12/spark-pre-celebrate-valentines-day/</guid>
		<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>Spark: Warren&#8217;s not just anti-gay</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/03/spark-warrens-not-just-anti-gay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/03/spark-warrens-not-just-anti-gay/#comments</comments>
		<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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