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		<title>An act of god?</title>
		<link>http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2011/06/06/an-act-of-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Steelman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acts of God . . . even the phrase, common in contracts and insurance policies, implies that natural disasters and accidents are caused by supernatural agency.  Ron Steelman thinks it's time for a change.
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		<title>Suicide bombers: The baffling Islamic cult of death</title>
		<link>http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2011/05/24/the-baffling-era-of-religious-massacre-suicides/</link>
		<comments>http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2011/05/24/the-baffling-era-of-religious-massacre-suicides/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 09:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Haught</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden achieved a remarkable feat: He mobilized the power of religion to spur devout young men to kill themselves in order to murder defenseless strangers. Grotesquely, the suicide-killers felt they were performing holy acts that would please God and assure them martyr rewards in paradise.
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		<title>It is time for the AFA to take responsibility for Fischer&#8217;s bigotry</title>
		<link>http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2011/04/18/it-is-time-for-the-afa-to-take-responsibility-for-fischers-bigotry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Right Wing Watch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three times in the last two months, the American Family Association has been forced to remove posts written by Brian Fischer in an effort to distance itself from his unmitigated bigotry.  Is the AFA responsible for what its spokesman says?<br /><br />Cast your vote in our poll, <a href="http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/?p=16819">here at Secular News Daily</a>.
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		<title>Religion, belief, and women&#8217;s rights: Mental acrobatics at the Jimmy Carter Center</title>
		<link>http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2011/04/08/religion-belief-and-womens-rights-mental-acrobatics-at-the-jimmy-carter-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Hamby</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do some of the most scholarly religious minds have to say about ending religious abuse of women worldwide?  William Hamby found out at the Human Rights Defenders Initiative Policy Forum on Religion, Belief, and Women's Rights.
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		<title>Send Pastor Terry Jones to Afghanistan to Burn a Quran</title>
		<link>http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2011/04/04/send-pastor-terry-jones-to-afghanistan-to-burn-a-quran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have the perfect solution for Pastor Terry Jones! Let's give him a ride to downtown Kabul in Afghanistan, and give him a Quran and a book of matches. Then we'll see just how committed to Christ and the Bible he really is!
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		<title>Separate but unequal: Ontario&#8217;s &#8220;Separate Schools&#8221; violate church-state separation</title>
		<link>http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2011/03/28/separate-but-unequal-ontarios-separate-schools-violate-church-state-separation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Neil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ontario, Canada's taxpayer-funded Roman Catholic "Separate School System" is a national embarrassment.
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		<title>King hearings: What if they were on Christian radicalism?</title>
		<link>http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2011/03/14/king-hearings-what-if-they-were-on-christian-radicalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newswire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suppose it were shown that extremist Christian groups were growing among the larger faiths of peace-loving Americans, and that they had succeeded in ­radicalizing adherents to violence.
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		<title>From Hawking&#8217;s “Grand Design” to Atkins&#8217; “On Being”, theological opinions abound</title>
		<link>http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2011/02/27/from-hawkings-grand-design-to-atkins-on-being-theological-opinions-abound/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Perrott</dc:creator>
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		<title>A human response to Christchurch quake</title>
		<link>http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2011/02/23/a-human-response-to-christchurch-quake-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Perrott</dc:creator>
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		<title>An atheist&#8217;s response to Rabbi Adam Jacobs</title>
		<link>http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2011/02/18/an-atheists-response-to-rabbi-adam-jacobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Hamby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Huffington Post recently published an “Open Letter to the Atheist Community” from the Rabbi Adam Jacobs, awash in the patronizing attitudes and misunderstandings common to god experts.  An atheist responds.
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