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		<title>Have You Reserved Your Copy of Awake!?</title>
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In case you hadn&#8217;t heard, the upcoming issue of Awake!, the Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses&#8217; other magazine (the one named after an Assemblage 23 song instead of a Jimi Hendrix song) has a cover story about the &#8220;new&#8221; atheism, called Atheists on A Crusade. You should turn off your irony-meters before reading the first two sentences:
A new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2010/09/09/have-you-reserved-your-copy-of-awake/</link>
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		<title>The Pope&#8217;s Wrong Again, and I Have Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, on the occasion of World Youth Day, pope Benny gave a speech on the general theme of damage control:
Why aren&#8217;t kids interested in religion anymore? We used to be such friends, back when we controlled the governments and had thumbscrews, and before all that child-rape coverup stuff came out. Where&#8217;s everybody going?

Okay, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2010/09/08/the-popes-wrong-again-and-i-have-data/</link>
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		<title>Secular Bible Study: Ruth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month&#8217;s Secular Bible Study is about the book of Ruth.
Here are my notes in org mode, and in HTML.
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		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2010/09/04/secular-bible-study-ruth/</link>
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		<title>Hostages at Discovery Channel Building</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve passed a TV set in the past few hours, you may have heard that some nutjob walked into the Discovery Channel building in Silver Spring, MD with a gun and possibly a bomb, and took hostages.
Apparently this is his plan to stop human overpopulation, war, pollution, and species extinction. He wants Discovery to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2010/09/01/hostages-at-discovery-channel-building/</link>
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		<title>Casual Superstition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This news item caught my eye because it&#8217;s a &#8220;news of the weird&#8221; type of story:
NEW YORK — A New York City man who plunged 40 stories from the rooftop of an apartment building has survived after crashing onto a parked car.

But then there was this bit:
The car&#8217;s owner, Guy McCormack, of Old Bridge, N.J., [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2010/09/01/casual-superstition/</link>
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		<title>MLK Art Photos</title>
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I met up with R. on the Mall today to see the MLK art, an accordion-folded display that showed four pictures of Martin Luther King, each with a quotation.
A PA system at the base played King&#8217;s I Have a Dream speech on continuous loop.





See here for pictures of Glenn Beck&#8217;s teabagger rally, which was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2010/08/28/mlk-art-photos/</link>
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Some photos of the Glenn Beck teabagger rally on the Mall today.
A good sized crowd, I&#8217;ve got to say.

Somewhere back there, there&#8217;s a Glenn Beck talking about God, duty to God, the country&#8217;s allegiance to God, and God:


Captain Jingo with his ginormous crotch-mounted flag:

Fox News mom. I like how this one came out.

One of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2010/08/28/teabagger-rally-photos/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Ban Churches Next to Other Churches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It occurs to me that I haven&#8217;t weighed in on the hot topic du jour, the question of whether there should be mosque at Ground Zero.
The argument seems to be: it&#8217;s outrageous and offensive that members of a religion be allowed to erect a center of worship right next to where other members of their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2010/08/26/lets-ban-churches-next-to-other-churches/</link>
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		<title>Respecting Everyone&#8217;s Beliefs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a phrase that&#8217;s been annoying me lately. I don&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s a new thing, or something that&#8217;s been floating around for years but only recently came to my attention, but it&#8217;s been bugging me.
&#8220;We should respect everyone&#8217;s ideas.&#8221;
This is exactly wrong. There are plenty of ideas out there that don&#8217;t deserve respect: the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2010/08/23/respecting-everyones-beliefs/</link>
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		<title>A Couple of News Items</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, an editorial in the Moonie Times about why the Proposition 8 decision was a mistake.
Just to dash any hopes you might have had that it might be well thought out:
First of all, the Plaintiffs have made (deliberately) a glaring legal error which I was at first surprised Judge Walker could overlook with no fallout. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2010/08/16/a-couple-of-news-items/</link>
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