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		<title>Ghost in the Machine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are ghosts in my dish washing machine. I was reading earlier this evening an essay about the evolution of religious thought. An evolutionary approach to religion posits that our systems of belief have changed over time as our brains and societies have developed. It is closely tied to the psychological approach, which holds that religious [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americansecularist.com&#038;blog=35272299&#038;post=954&#038;subd=americansecularist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buddha for President</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am unequivocally opposed to an established religion in a democracy. Furthermore, I do not believe that democracy is a product of religious belief; more specifically I do not believe that the American Constitution is based on Biblical precepts. Anyone who reads the document and has any understanding of history knows that it is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americansecularist.com&#038;blog=35272299&#038;post=937&#038;subd=americansecularist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Which Economy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;m waxing political the last couple of weeks, and neglecting my sworn duty to blog the entire New Testament this year; it is election season here in the US, after all, and it&#8217;s hard to escape the noise of it coming from every direction. I promise I&#8217;ll be back to my secular rants [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americansecularist.com&#038;blog=35272299&#038;post=915&#038;subd=americansecularist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Is The Evidence That Cutting Taxes For The Wealthy Creates Jobs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 04:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before my conservative friends get all in a frenzy, remember that this is not a liberal website, but a secular one. Secularism, as defined by the man who coined the term, is &#8221;a form of opinion which concerns itself only with questions, the issues of which can be tested by the experience of this life.&#8221; In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americansecularist.com&#038;blog=35272299&#038;post=899&#038;subd=americansecularist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I am a job creator: A manifesto for the entitled &#8211; Steven Pearlstein</title>
		<link>http://americansecularist.com/2012/10/02/i-am-a-job-creator-a-manifesto-for-the-entitled-steven-pearlstein/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Pearlstein, writing for the Washington Post, has really hit the nail on the head. While the rest of us are supposed to be grateful for a job that might pay the bills if we can get a bit of overtime, the rich think we&#8217;re just lazy sloths looking for handouts &#8211; the 47%. They, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americansecularist.com&#038;blog=35272299&#038;post=887&#038;subd=americansecularist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American Babel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 04:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a short post today about why I started thinking about the Tower of Babel to begin with. I was amused to find out that the name &#8216;Babylon&#8217; &#8211; &#8216;Babilli&#8217; in the language of the Akkadians, the builders of the city &#8211; means &#8216;Gate of God&#8217; &#8211; but to the Hebrews, it sounded almost exactly like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americansecularist.com&#038;blog=35272299&#038;post=871&#038;subd=americansecularist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let Us Make God in Our Image</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 07:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier in the week, while writing my Tower of Babel post, I stumbled across a number of images that I found quite interesting. It seems the story has captured the imagination of many artists over the centuries, each artist with his own interpretation of what the Tower may have looked like. Here&#8217;s an illustration from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americansecularist.com&#038;blog=35272299&#038;post=848&#038;subd=americansecularist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tower of Babel</title>
		<link>http://americansecularist.com/2012/09/24/tower-of-babel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 05:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read Genesis 11. I know I&#8217;m supposed to be blogging the New Testament, not the Old, but indulge me if you will. As a student of several languages and the acquisition of language in general, this Biblical story is obviously of interest to me. You don&#8217;t have to look at this Tower of Babel too [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americansecularist.com&#038;blog=35272299&#038;post=825&#038;subd=americansecularist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Is America&#8217;s Only Protestant Leader?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 07:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m feeling a little mischievous today, so I thought I might beat a horse / bang a drum / stir up a race in which I have no dog entered &#8211; or whatever colloquialism you might have for one of my favorite pastimes &#8211; getting people all fired up about something that I don&#8217;t really care [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americansecularist.com&#038;blog=35272299&#038;post=751&#038;subd=americansecularist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Pro-Lifers Should Be Anti-War</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m having a difficult time forgetting this CNN video of 4 year-old Rena. She was playing on the balcony of her family&#8217;s apartment in Aleppo, Syria, when a bullet &#8211; not a stray, but one fired at random by a sniper &#8211; smashed through the window and into her face, dislodging one of her teeth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=americansecularist.com&#038;blog=35272299&#038;post=776&#038;subd=americansecularist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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