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		<title>Spirituality for Skeptics.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/25/spirituality-for-skeptics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<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>&#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>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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		<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>Hacking Our Social Systems.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/15/hacking-our-social-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From xkcd. (shared under a Creative Commons license) When I first migrated to the Mormon Matrix, it seemed to me a flawlessly elegant combination of history, science, and society. I immediately benefited from my conversion, upgrading my interpersonal skills, self-esteem, and sense of life purpose. It didn&#8217;t take long for me to start finding flaws [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating New Constellations.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/09/creating-new-constellations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our story begins at the Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles&#8217; Silverlake District. There are thousands of galleries in SoCal, but CatGirl and I love this one because it showcases some of our favorite artists, &#8220;low-brow&#8221; creators often featured in the likes of Juxtapoz (which William Gibson apparently reads to cure writer&#8217;s block). When we visited [...]]]></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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		<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>Spark: Does Religion Empower Women?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/23/spark-does-religion-empower-women/</link>
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		<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>In the Dark about AFTERdark</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/21/in-the-dark-about-afterdark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, we&#8217;ve got these posters up all over campus for an &#8220;event&#8221; tonight called &#8220;AFTERdark&#8221; and it&#8217;s pissing me off because I think this is a microcosm of the general bait-and-switch of religion. The campus event of the year AFTERdark the compelling drama of Joe White &#8220;a top 10 influencer of the century&#8221; -New Man [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: the Devil&#8217;s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/15/book-review-the-devils-delusion-atheism-and-its-scientific-pretensions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/15/book-review-the-devils-delusion-atheism-and-its-scientific-pretensions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was cross-posted from my account at GoodReads, where I gave it two stars (of five). I would like to note that I did not read the whole book—I got through the fifth chapter before it was due at the library (and I couldn&#8217;t renew it because someone else had a hold on it). I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Atheist Morality</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/13/spark-atheist-morality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a beautiful story from a favorite blogger, discussing why she gives money to beggars on the street. To religionists who say that morality may only come from the Divine, I give you this story. Love for fellow man need not be based in religion. This is a simple story that affected one person&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Atheist Moments on Colbert</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/20/spark-atheist-moments-on-colbert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here. Including what atheists yell during sex, canoeing on a lake of fire for all eternity, the dangers of topiary, why we should have more atheists in the military, atheist storm troopers, the separation of church and town, the Gospel of Cadbury, and the Dead Faith Scrolls. (the second Dawkins vid is a duplicate) If [...]]]></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>Spark: from the &#8220;heh&#8221; files</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/16/spark-from-the-heh-files/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;m not the only one to whom this has occurred before, but the Pope thinks secularists are too materialistic (unlike the Church, of course). Some great comments on this over at Pharyngula.]]></description>
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		<title>Gay Marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/11/gay-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/11/gay-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/11/gay-marriage/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a debate that addresses this at school today, which I shall attend. It is put on by the local chapter of the Federalist Society (the campus representative states that they are devoted to &#8220;honest &#038; careful interpretation of the constitution&#8221; and are &#8220;never timid about debating&#8221;). Sometimes I feel like I&#8217;m surrounded by them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Monday: Personal Jesus</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/01/music-monday-personal-jesus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/01/music-monday-personal-jesus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1212</guid>
		<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>Moral Relativism</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/28/moral-relativism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/28/moral-relativism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently doing a survey recommended to me by BoingBoing. One of the questions involved a poor person giving money to a charity vs. a rich person giving the same amount of money to a charity. It reminded me of the parable of the widow&#8217;s mite. Now, I have often been told, as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pepperdinian Christians</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/21/pepperdinian-christians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was my first day in the midst of the koolaid-drinking Pepperdinians. (Aside: I told my Apple-coworkers that I felt that the Pepperdinians were a little koolaid for me and one responded, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t you find that when you came here&#8230;?&#8221; I hadn&#8217;t, but I&#8217;ve been drinking the Apple koolaid for a while, so hadn&#8217;t noticed.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on Defining &#8220;Christian&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/07/on-defining-christian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/07/on-defining-christian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been listening to Atheists Talk (iTunes link), spurred in that direction by PZMyers, who was interviewed by them recently. And then I stuck around to hear their next show, in which they interviewed two Christians. While it was interesting to listen to them sputter when unable to answer questions, and relieving that the [...]]]></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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