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		<title>Roswell, GA rejects city council prayer</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/03/12/roswell-ga-rejects-city-council-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A local win!  The city council of my adopted city&#8211;Roswell, GA&#8211;has strongly rejected a proposal to begin council meetings with prayer.  What&#8217;s more, council members report that the feedback of their constituents has been overwhelmingly against having prayer.  I could not be more pleased with our city council.  Actually, I could be more pleased, since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9th Circuit rejects Newdow</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/03/11/9th-circuit-rejects-newdow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the Constitutionality of the phrase &#8220;under God&#8221; in the Pledge of Allegiance and the motto &#8220;In God We Trust&#8221; on American currency.  This double body-blow denies two lawsuits spearheaded by Michael Newdow.  You can read the Court&#8217;s opinions here and here.
I have not had time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rape your daughters for the apocalypse</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/03/11/rape-your-daughters-for-the-apocalypse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1904</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A man in New Jersey is accused of raping and beating his five daughters over a 15-year period, fathering as many as six children through them as a result.  Did I mention these gals were homeschooled?
Why?  Because he had convinced himself there was no god and he could indulge himself with impunity.
Ah, who am I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-gay Senator is gay</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/03/10/anti-gay-senator-is-gay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know that sounds like a LOLCATS caption (it also sounds like one of those news-that&#8217;s-not-news items like &#8220;World&#8217;s Oldest Person Dies&#8221;), but apparently it&#8217;s true.  California State Senator Roy Ashburn is the latest anti-homosexual crusader who is himself a homosexual.  What is it with these people?  What&#8217;s worse than his political bigotry is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Violence continues in Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/03/09/voilence-continues-in-nigeria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[christianity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1897</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Agnostics continue to slaughter atheists in Nigeria.
Ah, who am I kidding?  It&#8217;s Muslims slaughtering Christians (and vice versa).  Nigeria&#8217;s Acting President&#8211;the ironically named  Goodluck Jonathan&#8211;has promised to quell the violence, but I suspect he&#8217;ll do no more than tamp it down temporarily.
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		<title>Podcast #83 &#8211; Secular Coalition at the White House</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/03/08/podcast-83-secular-coation-at-the-white-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1887</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[American Atheists president Ed Buckner reports on the recent meeting between representatives of the Secular Coalition for America with White House officials.
Plus: We meet the Hitch!  Allison joins us to talk about &#8220;The Only Subject Is Love,&#8221; a seminar we attended at Emory University featuring Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens, and filmmaker Deepa Mehta (who is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homeschooled = Evangelical?</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/03/07/homeschooled-evangelical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1894</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not opposed to homeschooling on general principle.  I think it&#8217;s possible for reasonably intelligent parents to provide their children a decent education at home.  Unfortunately, in the United States the word &#8220;homeschooler&#8221; has an incredibly strong correlation with &#8220;evangelical brainwasher.&#8221;  This recent news article reveals that the vast majority of American homeschoolers do so, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Reason Project is now Project Reason</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/03/06/the-reason-project-is-now-project-reason/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Sam Harris:
Same foundation, same people, (almost) the same name:
In order to avoid ongoing confusion between The Reason Project and The Reason Foundation (with which we are not affiliated), we are changing our name to Project Reason.
Please note our new URL: www.project-reason.org 
The Project Reason Advisory Board: Clifford S. Asness, Peter Atkins, Jerry Coyne, Richard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hitchens rewrites the 10C</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/03/05/hitchens-rewrites-the-10c/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<title>Podcast #82 &#8211; Creation</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/02/26/podcast-82-creation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Allison&#8217;s back&#8211;yay!  She joins us to discuss the new Charles Darwin bio-pic Creation, starring real-life husband-and-wife Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly as Charles and Emma Darwin.  Creation is based on the nonfiction book Annie&#8217;s Box (published in the US as Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution, and reissued in conjunction with the film as Creation) [...]]]></description>
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<itunes:duration>41:16</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Podcast #81 &#8211; Announcing Unity 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/02/19/podcast-81-announcing-unity-2013/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/02/19/podcast-81-announcing-unity-2013/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1872</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Downey (former president of Atheist Alliance International, now a &#8220;freethought free agent&#8221;) announces the formation of the Unity 2013 Event Committee.  What is Unity 2013?  Nobody knows just yet, but what we do know is that it&#8217;ll be big, it has the blessing of such notables as Daniel Dennett, and it&#8217;ll involve many (if [...]]]></description>
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<itunes:duration>43:52</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Podcast #80 &#8211; Simon Singh</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/02/08/podcast-80-simon-singh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We interview science journalist Simon Singh, co-author (with Dr. Edzard Ernst) of Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine (which both John and David highly recommend).  For more about Simon visit SimonSingh.net.  Please also visit LibelReform.org, a website devoted to changing the United Kingdom&#8217;s disgraceful libel laws (Simon is currently in the midst [...]]]></description>
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<itunes:duration>57:27</itunes:duration>
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		<title>See &#8220;Creation&#8221; with American Freethought</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/02/06/see-creation-with-american-freethought/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/02/06/see-creation-with-american-freethought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Charles Darwin bio-pic &#8220;Creation&#8221; (starring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly) opens in Atlanta on February 19th. The guys from the American Freethought Podcast (John C. Snider and David Driscoll) would like to invite you to join us on Saturday, February 20th, to see this film, with dinner and drinks at Royal Orchid Thai [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama disappoints at NPB</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/02/04/obama-disappoints-at-npb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1861</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s disappointing that President Obama would attend the National Prayer Breakfast at all.  The NPB is organized, you may already know, by &#8220;the Family&#8221;&#8211;a secretive and power-hungry cult that attracts congressmen (as well as international totalitarians and fascists) with their bizarre ideology that justifies any action as long as it&#8217;s committed by one of God&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #79 &#8211; E-meters for Haiti?</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/02/03/podcast-79-e-meters-for-haiti/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/02/03/podcast-79-e-meters-for-haiti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earthquake-devastated Haiti has become a magnet for kooky, misguided (but perhaps well-intentioned) religious groups.  Scientologist John Travolta (disguised, apparently, as L. Ron Hubbard&#8211;see photo at right) has personally flown his private 707 to Haiti, delivering food, medical supplies, and &#8220;volunteer ministers&#8221; who claim the ability to heal through therapeutic touch.  Meanwhile, a Christian group called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Islam Reading Project</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/01/31/my-islam-reading-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/01/31/my-islam-reading-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1850</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m about to start an Islam/Middle East themed reading project, and if anyone wants to join me, you are welcome.  My selection process is complex and meticulous: I&#8217;ve scanned my bookshelves and made a list of books on the topic that I own but have not yet read.
The first three out of the gate are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #78 &#8211; Pat Robertson Is an Evil Moron</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/01/26/podcast-78-pat-robertson-is-an-evil-moron/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/01/26/podcast-78-pat-robertson-is-an-evil-moron/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1843</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Or at least so says Christopher Hitchens, responding to Robertson&#8217;s claim that the devastating Haitian earthquake (which may have killed upwards of 200,000 innocent people) was the result of &#8220;a deal with the devil&#8221; made during the Haitian Revolution in 1791.  White House press secretary Robert Gibbs called Robertson&#8217;s remarks &#8220;utterly stupid.&#8221;  Barry Lynn of [...]]]></description>
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<itunes:duration>48:15</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Would you like your assault rifle with or without scripture?</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/01/19/would-you-like-your-assault-rifle-with-or-without-scripture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1841</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Man, just when I thought I&#8217;d seen it all, the fundamentalists come through with something new.  Trijicon, provider of combat rifle sights to the US military, has been encoding Bible verses in the serial numbers of their product!  For example, &#8220;JN8:12&#8243; at the end of a serial number refers to John 8:12.  May we recommend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #77 &#8211; Sports Losses and Southern Crosses</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/01/15/podcast-77-sports-losses-and-southern-crosses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[University of Texas quarterback Colt McCoy was sidelined with a shoulder injury early-on at college football&#8217;s 2010 Rose Bowl.  McCoy had to watch from the bench as Texas lost the National Championship to Alabama.  But that&#8217;s okay, &#8217;cause it&#8217;s all part of God&#8217;s Plan.
Tiger Woods&#8217; rumored infidelities have been all the rage with the tabloids, [...]]]></description>
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<itunes:duration>40:29</itunes:duration>
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		<title>Will someone please bitchslap Pat Robertson?</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/01/13/will-someone-please-bitchslap-pat-robertson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/01/13/will-someone-please-bitchslap-pat-robertson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you&#8217;ve probably heard, a massive earthquake has devastated Haiti.  While Haitian authorities and international agencies are still trying to come to grips with the size of the calamity, Pat Robertson is already assigning blame:

Way to shoot from the hip, Robertson.  Here&#8217;s an idea: the next time you think of saying something&#8230;don&#8217;t.
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		<title>Podcast #76 &#8211; Stuart Bechman (Pres. of Atheist Alliance International)</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/01/02/podcast-76-stuart-bechman-pres-of-atheist-alliance-international/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/01/02/podcast-76-stuart-bechman-pres-of-atheist-alliance-international/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year!  We kick off 2010 by interviewing Stuart Bechman, president of Atheist Alliance International (AtheistAlliance.org).  AAI is planning its first-ever Australian convention in Melbourne on March 12-14, 2010.  For details visit AtheistConvention.org.au&#8211;tickets are going fast!
Also discussed in this episode:
Crazy Christmas: Pope Ratzinger gets jumped by a wingnut at Christmas Mass, and another Muslim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woman jumps Pope during Xmas mass</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/12/29/woman-jumps-pope-during-xmas-mass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as the Pope deserves our outrage and contempt, I don&#8217;t think he deserves to be physically assaulted.  A crazy person jumped the barrier during a Christmas Eve mass and knocked Ratzinger to the ground.  He was unhurt, but an 87-year-old French Cardinal who was also knocked down broke his hip (which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Festivus for the rest of us!</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/12/23/festivus-for-the-rest-of-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s December 23rd, and that means&#8230;Festivus!

And now&#8230;for the Airing of Grievances!!!
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		<title>Wright v. Hitch, Part Deux</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/12/22/wright-v-hitch-part-deux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy Flibbertishibbit!  Robert Wright in diavlog with Christopher Hitchens twice in the same month!  Me like.

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		<title>Podcast #75 &#8211; Can Atheists Hold Office in NC?</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/12/21/podcast-75-can-atheists-hold-office-in-nc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cecil Bothwell has just been elected to the city council of Asheville, North Carolina.  He happens to be an atheist.  The North Carolina state constitution bars atheists from holding elected office.  (For what it&#8217;s worth, seven other states still have constitutional provisions that discriminate against non-believers.)  Is this a case of continuing institutionalized bigotry, or [...]]]></description>
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<itunes:duration>37:08</itunes:duration>
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		<title>An atheist city councilman, but&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil Bothwell is a new city councilman in Asheville, NC (a liberal enclave in an otherwise fairly conservative state).  Bothwell happens to be an atheist, but the North Carolina state constitution prohibits any officeholder &#8220;who shall deny the being of Almighty God.&#8221; Of course, anyone with a lick of sense knows that that provision is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Reps declare War on the War on Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/12/12/house-reps-declare-war-on-the-war-on-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/12/12/house-reps-declare-war-on-the-war-on-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[House Republicans have declared war on the War on Christmas.  House Resolution 951, sponsored by Henry Brown of&#8211;where else&#8211;South Carolina seeks to express &#8220;the sense of the House of Representatives that the symbols and traditions of Christmas should be protected for use by those who celebrate Christmas.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s the full text:
Whereas Christmas is a national [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wright v. Hitch</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/12/11/wright-v-hitch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally&#8211;two of my favorite pundits go head-to-head at bloggingheads.tv.  Check. It. Out.

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		<title>Phil Plait steps down from JREF</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/12/08/phil-plait-steps-down-from-jref/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy Haleakala!  After just over a year at the helm, Phil &#8220;Bad Astronomer&#8221; Plait is stepping down as president of the James Randi Educational Foundation to pursue an undisclosed TV project.  His worthy successor is Center for Inquiry&#8217;s D.J. Grothe.  Read JREF&#8217;s press release here, and Plait&#8217;s comments here.
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		<title>Podcast #74 &#8211; Margaret Downey</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/12/07/podcast-74-margaret-downey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We interview Margaret Downey, former Atheist Alliance International president and founder of the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia (FSGP.org), about her experiences coordinating the annual Tree of Knowledge in Chester County, Pennsylvania, which is intended to offer an alternative to the traditional Nativity scene displayed on public property.  For more about Margaret visit secular-celebrations.com.
We review [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swiss voters ban minarets</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/12/02/swiss-voters-ban-minarets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voters in Switzerland have passed a referendum&#8211;with a healthy margin&#8211;to ban the construction of new minarets in the country.  Switzerland currently has a grand total of FOUR minarets.
There are ways to oppose the encroachment of extremist Islam, but this isn&#8217;t one of them.
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		<title>Chris Matthews cuts loose on Bishop Thomas Tobin</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/11/25/chris-matthews-cuts-loose-on-bishop-thomas-tobin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/11/25/chris-matthews-cuts-loose-on-bishop-thomas-tobin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ooh snap!  MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews really lays into Rhode Island Bishop Thomas Tobin over his banning of Rep. Patrick Kennedy from Communion due to Kennedy&#8217;s support for abortion rights.  Matthews trowels it on pretty thick but I think he&#8217;s on the right side of this one.  I enjoyed this one.  It&#8217;s not every day one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #73 &#8211; War on Christmas Special</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/11/23/podcast-73-war-on-christmas-special/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, no War on Christmas per se, but&#8230; the festive season approaches, and it&#8217;s time for us to share our Top Five suggestions for holiday gifts for nonbelievers!  It&#8217;s your opportunity to warm the cockles of the family atheist and/or make pious relatives squirm as you share presents around the pagan tree.
David&#8217;s suggestions (in no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Christianity cause the economic meltdown?</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/11/16/did-christianity-cause-the-economic-meltdown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/11/16/did-christianity-cause-the-economic-meltdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1754</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out Hanna Rosin&#8217;s &#8220;Did Christianity Cause the Crash?&#8220;  It&#8217;s an interesting article in The Atlantic about the so-called &#8220;prosperity gospel&#8221; and how it&#8217;s focus on material gain and financial risk-taking may have led to America&#8217;s current economic troubles.
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		<title>WSJ: Political correctness skewing Ft Hood story</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/11/11/wsj-political-correctness-skewing-ft-hood-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<title>Loose Screws</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/11/11/loose-screws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review by John C. Snider © 2009
Aliens landed at Roswell.  The Apollo moon landings were faked.  HIV doesn&#8217;t cause AIDS.  And 9/11 was an inside job.
Americans love their conspiracy theories almost as much as they love their religion.  Once a crackpot idea grabs the public&#8217;s attention, no amount of data, science and common sense will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SC License Plates FAIL</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/11/11/sc-license-plates-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Associated Press
Published: November 10, 2009
A federal judge ruled that the state cannot issue license plates showing the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window along with the phrase “I Believe.” Judge Cameron M. Currie of Federal District Court said in her ruling that the license plates were unconstitutional because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goddess of the Market</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/11/09/goddess-of-the-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review by John C. Snider © 2009
Love her or loathe her, there&#8217;s no denying that Ayn Rand was a fascinating person.  Born in 1905 in Czarist Russia, Alisa Rosenbaum&#8217;s childhood was devastated by the upheaval of the revolution and the subsequent reversal of her family&#8217;s fortunes under the Communist regime.  Emigrating to the United States [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #72 &#8211; Jennifer Burns (Goddess of the Market)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We interview Jennifer Burns, assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia and author of the new biography Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.  It&#8217;s a timely book considering the recent resurgence of Rand&#8217;s works (especially her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged)  as a reaction to the country&#8217;s current [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fort Hood massacre: jihad or mental illness?</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/11/06/fort-hood-massacre-jihad-or-mental-illness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/11/06/fort-hood-massacre-jihad-or-mental-illness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now you&#8217;ve likely heard about the massacre yesterday at Fort Hood, Texas that left 13 dead and many more injured.  The shooter was Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist born in Virginia.  After initially reporting that Hasan had been killed on the scene, authorities now say he is alive and in stable condition, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eugenie Scott v Ray Comfort Pt. 2</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/11/05/eugenie-scott-v-ray-comfort-pt-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I reported a few days ago, evangelist and armchair evolution critic Ray Comfort has engaged in debate with Dr. Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education.  Their exchange has been posted at US News and World Report.  Here&#8217;s the second and final round.  First, Ray Comfort trots out more of the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re back on the iTunes Store</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/11/04/were-back-on-the-itunes-store/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After much ado, the American Freethought podcast is back in full force on the iTunes Store.  Apologies for the inconvenience.
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		<title>Hey Maine: WTF?</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/11/04/hey-maine-wtf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voters in Maine have repealed a state law legalizing same-sex marriage.  With 87% of precincts counted, 53% of Mainers want to keep marriage between one man and one woman.  This comes as Republicans won handily in gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, proving that conservative forces are not in as much disarray as many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #71 &#8211; Eye of Sauron Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/11/03/podcast-71-eye-of-sauron-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/11/03/podcast-71-eye-of-sauron-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We look at three recent TV programs that have attracted the attention of the Eye of Sauron, a.k.a. Catholic League president Bill Donohue, whose job it is to manufacture outrage anytime anyone makes fun of the Church or offers sharp criticism of it.  Sarah Silverman&#8217;s video &#8220;Sell the Vatican, Feed the World&#8221; appeared on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eugenie Scott v Ray Comfort</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/11/02/eugenie-scott-v-ray-comfort/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this corner&#8230;Ray &#8220;The Atheist&#8217;s Nightmare&#8221; Comfort, evangelical nutjob and world renowned banana theorist, defending his publication of a heavily abridged edition of On the Origin of Species&#8211;with a special introduction that smears Charles Darwin as a racist, misogynist and proto-Nazi.
And in this corner&#8230;Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does Bill Donohue wear under his burka?</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/31/what-does-bill-donohue-wear-under-his-burka/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/31/what-does-bill-donohue-wear-under-his-burka/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1633</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The only thing that makes me laugh more at Bill &#8220;Eye of Sauron&#8221; Donohue getting his rosary in a bunch is hearing him complain that &#8220;They only pick on the Catholics&#8211;they wouldn&#8217;t dare pick on the Muslims.&#8221;  Which begs the question: why does the Eye only complain when &#8220;they&#8221; pick on Catholics, but never says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another SC Republican hikes the Appalachian Trail</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/29/another-sc-republican-hike-the-appalachian-trail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/29/another-sc-republican-hike-the-appalachian-trail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roland corning]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1629</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gotta love those South Carolina Republicans.  They cheat on their wives&#8211;on government time, no less&#8211;all the while preaching about the sanctity of marriage.  Thank goodness the gays can&#8217;t marry.  Anyway, this time it was Roland Corning, assistant state attorney, who was caught in flagrante delicto in a cemetery at high noon with a stripper, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We need to talk about your flair</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/28/we-need-to-talk-about-your-flair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/28/we-need-to-talk-about-your-flair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[civil rights]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Trevor Keezer claims Home Depot fired him for wearing a button saying &#8220;One nation under God&#8221; on his work apron, a violation of the company&#8217;s prohibition against religious messages.  What may be problematic for the company is the Keezer claims he wore the button for over a year before management said anything.
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		<title>The Book of Genesis by R. Crumb</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/24/the-book-of-genesis-by-r-crumb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Review by John C. Snider © 2009
Underground comics and counterculture icon Robert Crumb is widely praised as a brilliant satirist and is one of the most recognized pop artists of the 20th century.  The seminal&#8211;and often misunderstood&#8211;creator of such characters as Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat and Devil Girl has also been called sick, perverted, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tangled Bank</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/24/the-tangled-bank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review by John C. Snider © 2009
I haven&#8217;t had a biology class since I was in high school in the late 1970s.  Despite two college degrees filled with math, engineering and chemistry, I never took any more biology; as a result, most of what I know about biology in general, and evolution in particular, I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q1 threatens gay marriage in Maine</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/21/q1-threatens-gay-marriage-in-maine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/21/q1-threatens-gay-marriage-in-maine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 is an off year for most voters, but citizens across the nation are keeping an eye on the November 3rd election in Maine, in which Mainers will decide whether or not to overturn a law passed  last spring by the legislature and signed by the governor that legalized gay marriage.  A &#8220;No&#8221; vote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Show on Earth, Chapter 13</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/20/the-greatest-show-on-earth-chapter-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter-by-chapter thoughts on Richard Dawkins&#8217; The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by John C. Snider © 2009
Chapter 13: There is grandeur in this view of life

Well, here we are: the big finish.  Dawkins chooses to close his book by taking the last half of the last paragraph of Charles Darwin&#8217;s magnum opus On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Show on Earth, Chapter 12</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/19/the-greatest-show-on-earth-chapter-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1607</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chapter-by-chapter thoughts on Richard Dawkins&#8217; The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by John C. Snider © 2009
Chapter 12: Arms races and &#8216;evolutionary theodicy&#8217;

More bad news for the Creationists.  Not only is the Creator apparently whimsical and inept&#8211;He is also heartless and cruel!
Dawkins provides several examples of needless suffering in nature that cannot be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Show on Earth, Chapter 11</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/19/the-greatest-show-on-earth-chapter-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1603</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chapter-by-chapter thoughts on Richard Dawkins&#8217; The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by John C. Snider © 2009
Chapter 11: History written all over us

Creationists will find it increasingly difficult to explain away the evidence presented in the later chapters of this book.  In Chapter 11, Dawkins shows how our bodies&#8211;and those of our animal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Show on Earth, Chapter 10</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/19/the-greatest-show-on-earth-chapter-10/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/19/the-greatest-show-on-earth-chapter-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1599</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chapter-by-chapter thoughts on Richard Dawkins&#8217; The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by John C. Snider © 2009
Chapter 10: The tree of cousinship

Homology.  The fact that, say, mammals all share the same basic body plan, and that each species is more or less a variation on a theme, could either be evidence of shared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Show on Earth, Chapter 9</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/18/the-greatest-show-on-earth-chapter-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1596</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chapter-by-chapter thoughts on Richard Dawkins&#8217; The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by John C. Snider © 2009
Chapter 9: The ark of the continents

Dawkins points out that geography has a profound impact on evolution: the landscape can either allow species to interact, or it can prevent them from interacting.  In the latter case&#8211;what Dawkins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Show on Earth, Chapter 8</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/18/the-greatest-show-on-earth-chapter-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1593</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chapter-by-chapter thoughts on Richard Dawkins&#8217; The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by John C. Snider © 2009
Chapter 8: You did it yourself in nine months

One of the most frequent objections to evolution voiced by Creationists is the sheer implausibility of a process that &#8220;accidentally&#8221; yielded, from a single-celled ancestor billions of years ago, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Show on Earth, Chapter 7</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/17/the-greatest-show-on-earth-chapter-7/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/17/the-greatest-show-on-earth-chapter-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chapter-by-chapter thoughts on Richard Dawkins&#8217; The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by John C. Snider © 2009
Chapter 7: Missing persons?  Missing no longer

I am not a biologist, nor am I an anatomist, much less a paleoanthropologist.  So when a scientist shows me a reconstructed skull and breathlessly talks about its similarities or differences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Show on Earth, Chapter 6</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/16/the-greatest-show-on-earth-chapter-6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/16/the-greatest-show-on-earth-chapter-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter-by-chapter thoughts on Richard Dawkins&#8217; The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by John C. Snider © 2009
Chapter 6: Missing link?  What do you mean, &#8216;missing&#8217;?

Okay, now the rubber hits the road.  As Dawkins points out, we would know evolution was true even if we never found a single fossil.  Nonetheless, given that there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rifqa Bary to return to Ohio&#8230;or Sri Lanka</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/16/rifqa-bary-to-return-to-ohio-or-sri-lanka/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may recall, from a couple of months ago, the case of Rifqa Bary, the 17-year-old Christian convert who ran away from her Muslim parents in Ohio to stay with the minister of a Florida megachurch, claiming her parents would murder her for being an apostate.  Her parents assure authorities she is in no danger, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Show on Earth, Chapter 5</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/15/the-greatest-show-on-earth-chapter-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter-by-chapter thoughts on Richard Dawkins&#8217; The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by John C. Snider © 2009
Chapter 5: Before our very eyes

This chapter is both a necessary step in covering the gamut of arguments in favor of evolution and the step that will least impress dyed-in-the-wool Creationists.  Dawkins does a good job of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HuffPo covers AAI 2009!</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/14/huffpo-covers-aai-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We like to rag on Huffington Post over their fetish for complementary and alternative medicine, but let&#8217;s give credit where credit&#8217;s due.  HuffPo&#8217;s Landon Ross was at the recent Atheist Alliance International convention in Burbank, CA.  He provides a good summary of the event, and offers some thoughts of his own on the plight of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Show on Earth, Chapter 4</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/14/the-greatest-show-on-earth-chapter-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter-by-chapter thoughts on Richard Dawkins&#8217; The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by John C. Snider © 2009
Chapter 4: Silence and slow time

Oooh, the colors!  The Greatest Show on Earth boasts four sections of full-color illustrations, which is very cool (and probably explains the book&#8217;s $30 cover price).  Anyway, the first section of illustrations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Deity and the Science Advisor</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/13/mr-deity-and-the-science-advisor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More great vids this morning.  My favorite online video series and my favorite curmudgeonly blogger&#8211;what&#8217;s not to love?

Oh, and in case you missed it, here&#8217;s another Mr. Deity ep in which an arch-skeptic we all know and love tries to fast-talk his way out of eternal hellfire.  Enjoy!

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		<title>Sell the Vatican&#8211;and then what?</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/13/sell-the-vatican-and-then-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We saw this Friday night on Real Time with Bill Maher.  I nearly fell off the couch, I laughed so hard.  But Sarah, once you sold the Vatican, what would you do with it?  What amazes me is that the Eye of Sauron has yet to comment on this!

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		<title>The Greatest Show on Earth, Chapter 3</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/12/the-greatest-show-on-earth-chapter-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter-by-chapter thoughts on Richard Dawkins&#8217; The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by John C. Snider © 2009
Chapter 3: The primrose path to macro-evolution

As I had hoped/suspected, Dawkins turns his attention from artificial selection to natural selection.  Unfortunately, I have a slight problem with the way he introduces it.  He starts by pointing out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heads up for our iTunes users</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/12/heads-up-for-our-itunes-users/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be removing the American Freethought podcast from the iTunes Store TEMPORARILY.   This is a last ditch effort to try to correct the fact that the iTunes Store hasn&#8217;t updated our podcast listing in 10 weeks.  Hopefully once the reboot on the iTunes Store is accomplished the glitch will go away.  If not I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #70 &#8211; Randy Olson</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/12/podcast-70-randy-olson-dont-be-such-a-scientist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We interview Randy Olson, marine biologist turned filmmaker, and author of the new book Don&#8217;t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style.  Randy is best known for the 2006 documentary Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus and his 2008 global warming comedy Sizzle.  Don&#8217;t Be Such a Scientist is part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Show on Earth, Chapter 2</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/11/the-greatest-show-on-earth-chapter-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter-by-chapter thoughts on Richard Dawkins&#8217; The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by John C. Snider © 2009
Chapter 2: Dogs, cows and cabbages
In Chapter 2 Dawkins tackles another of the common &#8220;criticisms&#8221; that evolution deniers like to whip out: that scientists can&#8217;t even agree on a concise definition of &#8220;species.&#8221;  This is true to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heads up, DC skeptics: HEAVY MENTAL</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/10/heads-up-dc-skeptics-heavy-mental/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you live in&#8211;or are going to be in&#8211;the Washington, DC area on Saturday, October 24th, here&#8217;s your opportunity to participate in a day-long event of science, magic and skepticism.  Center for Inquiry DC and National Capital Area Skeptics have teamed up to bring Jamy Ian Swiss, skeptic and world-renowned magician and mentalist, for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Show on Earth, Chapter 1</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/10/the-greatest-show-on-earth-chapter-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter-by-chapter thoughts on Richard Dawkins&#8217; The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by John C. Snider © 2009
I&#8217;m sitting down to read Richard Dawkins&#8217; latest book&#8211;The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (pub. by Free Press, Sep 2009, 470 pp hdcvr, $30)&#8211;and I thought I&#8217;d try something a little different.  Instead of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dawkins tix for Charlotte NC still available</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/09/dawkins-ix-for-charlotte-nc-still-available/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/09/dawkins-ix-for-charlotte-nc-still-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may recall, Richard Dawkins will be speaking this Wednesday, October 14th, at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, as part of an arrangement with Charlotte Pop Fest.  A few tickets are still available for an exclusive meet-and-greet with Prof. Dawkins before his lecture.  Also, if you missed CPF, you can still buy the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVR Alert: Dawkins vs. O&#8217;Reilly tonight</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/09/dvr-alert-dawkins-vs-oreilly-tonight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Set your DVRs for FOX News tonight (Friday, October 9th) 8PM or 11PM Eastern&#8211;Richard Dawkins will appear on The O&#8217;Reilly Factor.  Should be fun.
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		<title>GA college &#8220;exorcist&#8221; removed from school post</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/08/ga-college-exorcist-removed-from-school-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nathan Mallory, the junior at north Georgia&#8217;s Berry College who performed an &#8220;exorcism&#8221; on a fellow student (and later bragged about it), has been removed from his position as a resident hall adviser by the school.  The young woman on whom he performed this exorcism has reportedly transferred to another college.  I&#8217;m sure this isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Be Such a Scientist</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/07/dont-be-such-a-scientist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review by John C. Snider © 2009
Science is controversial, whether we like it or not.  The nature of science is churn: old ideas are replaced by newer, better ideas; everything &#8220;known&#8221; is contingent, accepted only as long as new data doesn&#8217;t contradict it.  Still, science is a human process, and therefore imperfect.  Factions dig in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neumanns get light sentence for murder of daughter</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/07/neumanns-get-light-sentence-for-murder-of-daughter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/07/neumanns-get-light-sentence-for-murder-of-daughter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I have to admit I did not see this one coming; although, in hindsight maybe I should have.   Dale and Leilani Neumann, the Wisconsin couple who decided they&#8217;re rather pray over their diabetic daughter rather than pay for medical treatment, were sentenced yesterday.
They received a sentence of one month in prison per year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Georgia craziness</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/07/north-georgia-craziness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1493</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of incidents close to home have come to my attention.  Most recently, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on an incident at Berry College (in the north Georgia city of Rome), where junior Nathan Mallory claimed to have exorcised a fellow student during a worship session in Mallory&#8217;s dorm room.
The Berry College newspaper The Carrier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eternal Life: A New Vision</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/05/eternal-life-a-new-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1464</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Review by John C. Snider © 2009
When I read John Shelby Spong&#8217;s Jesus for the Non-Religious, I declared him an honorary atheist.  Here was a retired Episcopal bishop, free of any obligation to a flock, secure in the fact that he could speak his mind without fear of professional reprisal, saying that there was no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #69 &#8211; (Almost) Live from AAI 2009, Pt. 2</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/04/podcast-69-almost-live-from-aai-2009-pt-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David gives us his second and final report from the Atheist Alliance International 2009 Convention, October 2-4 in Los Angeles (Burbank, actually), CA.  Another great line-up of speakers, including Lawrence Krauss, Carolyn Porco, Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins.  Plus: Find out which city will be host to AAI 2010!
Announcements &#8211; We encourage you to leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #68 &#8211; (Almost) Live from AAI 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/03/podcast-68-almost-live-from-aai-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1475</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David reports on Day One of the Atheist Alliance International 2009 Convention, October 2-4 in Los Angeles (Burbank, actually), CA.  It&#8217;s an A-list of celebrity speakers.  And there&#8217;s a minor controversy over the awarding of this year&#8217;s Richard Dawkins Award to comedian Bill Maher.  Bill&#8217;s on the same page with most atheists on the problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #67 &#8211; Jeff Sharlet (The Family)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1455</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We interview Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.  The Family is both an investigation into the organization that has influenced presidents from Eisenhower to Obama, and a history of American fundamentalism from colonial times to the present.  If you don&#8217;t read any other book this year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVR Alert: Dawkins and Collins on Colbert</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/30/dvr-alert-dawkins-and-collins-on-colbert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While it would have been super-cool to have Richard Dawkins and Francis Collins on The Colbert Report at the same time, we&#8217;ll have to settle for them one-at-a-time.  Dawkins (author of the new book The Greatest Show on Earth) will be on tonight at 11:30PM Eastern, while Francis &#8220;Three Waterfalls&#8221; Collins (the new head of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Blasphemy Day, God Damn It!</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/30/its-blasphemy-day-god-damn-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1452</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s International Blasphemy Day.  The Center for Inquiry has led the charge to make September 30th &#8220;a day to promote free speech and to stand up in a show of solidarity for the freedom to challenge, criticize, and satirize religion without fear of murder, litigation, or reprisal.&#8221;  Sounds good to me.  In America we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #66 &#8211; Freethought in Mexico</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/28/podcast-66-freethought-in-mexico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1446</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We interview Danny Zepeda, a skeptical blogger living in Morelia, a city in central Mexico.  He talks about the state of freethought South of the Border, the prevalence of superstition and alt-medicine quackery in Mexican society, and the challenges of raising children to be critical thinkers.  Visit Danny&#8217;s Spanish-language blog Un Papá Escéptico (A Skeptical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin film gets US distributor</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/26/darwin-film-gets-us-distributor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When reports came out a few days ago blaming Creationist fervor in America for the failure of Darwin bio-pic Creation to get a US distributor, I was skeptical of the claim; further, I was sure it wouldn&#8217;t be long before a distribution deal was announced.  If America loves anything, it&#8217;s controversy.
So, imagine my (un)surprise to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charlotte Pop Fest happening now!</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/25/charlotte-pop-fest-happening-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Charlotte Pop Fest is underway right now, September 24-26!  Proceeds from this non-profit fest will benefit the Richard Dawkins Foundation.  If you&#8217;re within striking distance of Charlotte, NC and want to attend, there&#8217;s more info at CharlottePopFest.com.
Not surprisingly, CPF has stirred up a bit of controversy, mostly thanks to news reporters who smell a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gran Torino, MD</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/24/gran-torino-md/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;ve figured out how they could pull off a sequel to the recent film Gran Torino: as the new movie opens, Clint Eastwood&#8217;s  über-curmudgeon Walt Kowalski lies in intensive care, riddled with bullet holes but not dead.  Grimacing, he opens his eyes.  Standing at his bedside is a horde of his Hmong neighbors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marilyn Loeffel&#8217;s Wrong Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/23/marilyn-loeffels-wrong-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How bass-ackwards can any one person get things?  To find out, one need only read the latest column by Marilyn Loeffel in the Memphis, Tennessee Commercial Appeal.  Loeffel is the &#8220;former chairman of the Shelby (Tennessee) County Commission and former president of FLARE, a pro-family advocacy group.&#8221;  Loeffel is surely fighting for Sarah Palin&#8217;s spot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy (2nd) Birthday to Us!</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/23/happy-2nd-birthday-to-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today American Freethought is two years old.
On September 23, 2007 the URL &#8220;AmericanFreethought.com&#8221; was registered, and on the next day the first entry went online.
Over the course our second year, we&#8217;ve managed to post something on the blog almost every day.  We&#8217;ve released 37 podcast episodes and interviewed such luminaries as Eugenie C. Scott of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #65 &#8211; Live at Dragon*Con</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/22/podcast-65-live-at-dragoncon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a recording of our live show, presented September 5th on the Dragon*Con Skeptics Track.  Among the topics discussed:

Homeopathic beer (with a tip o&#8217; the hat to That Mitchell and Webb Look)
The CieAura Patch of Woo
Are skepticism and science fiction fandom compatible?
Holey Scripture (with a tip o&#8217; the hat to TheBrickTestament.com)
Media FAIL: A humorous look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freethought Film Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/21/freethought-film-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, how cool is this?  The Freethought Film Festival Foundation (FFFF) is a newly-launched non-profit organization based in&#8211;where else?&#8211;Florida (the only state that begins with an &#8220;F&#8221;).  They&#8217;re shooting for November 2010 in Tampa.  If you&#8217;re a budding filmmaker, or just a lover of freethought who wants to show some support, check &#8216;em out at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter, Sharia Law and You</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/20/twitter-sharia-law-and-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by John C. Snider © 2009
Is Muammar Gaddafi monitoring your tweets?  Here&#8217;s the bizarre link between the social networking explosion and the inscrutable Islamic nation of Libya.
A short tutorial on URL shortening
If you use the internet much, chances are you&#8217;re familiar with &#8220;URL shortening.&#8221;  In case you&#8217;re not, URL shortening is a free service that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re now on Think Atheist, too!</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/20/were-now-on-think-atheist-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1399</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you can&#8217;t get enough of social networking, American Freethought now has a presence with the Think Atheist community!  Like the wonderful Atheist Nexus, Think Atheist is &#8220;a community social networking &#38; news site focused on bringing free thinkers together &#38; breaking the misconceptions about atheism.&#8221;  Boy howdy.
Join the Think Atheist American Freethought group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution, Lucky Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/19/evolution-lucky-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We stumbled across this yesterday, quite by accident, while doing our grocery shopping.  It&#8217;s Evolution Wine, a blend of nine white varietals produced by Sokol Blosser Winery in Oregon.  Too bad it wasn&#8217;t around for Darwin Day back in February, but this vintage wasn&#8217;t released until September 9th.  Still, it&#8217;s the perfect choice for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Family</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/18/the-family/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review by John C. Snider © 2009
It is possibly the most influential organization you&#8217;ve never heard of.   They observe a fanatical devotion to the person of Jesus Christ, yet they are unrestrained by quaint notions of rule-based morality.  They are invited with open arms into the halls of power in Washington, DC.  Their members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin film not dead in US</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/17/darwin-film-not-dead-in-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=1372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I reported a few days ago, the new Charles Darwin bio-pic Creation has yet to find a distributor for the US market.  Producer Jeremy Thomas was quoted as blaming anti-evolution sentiments in America for the problem.
I didn&#8217;t buy it.  Lots and lots of extraordinarily controversial, religiously offensive movies get distributed every year.  The suspicion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #64 &#8211; Dragon*Con Wrap-Up</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/15/podcast-64-dragoncon-wrap-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll post the live episode we recorded on September 5th as soon as it&#8217;s available; meanwhile, we look back at our experience at Dragon*Con in general and the Skeptics Track in particular.  Kudos to:

Derek &#38; Swoopy of Skepticality for all their hard work in making the Skeptics Track and the Podcasting Track so successful.
Mark Distler [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerry Falwell on Science Fiction?</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/14/jerry-falwell-on-science-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by John C. Snider © 2009
Consider the following quote from the late Rev. Jerry Falwell (1933-2007), sent to me a few years ago by a friend who edits a local freethought newsletter:
&#8220;The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly attributed to the extensive reading of so-called &#8217;science fiction&#8217; by our young people. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norman Borlaug (1914-2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/14/norman-borlaug-1914-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Possibly the most important person you&#8217;ve never heard of died over the weekend: Norman Borlaug.  Here&#8217;s a short tribute video posted by Danny Zepeda (Un Papa Esceptico), featuring Borlaug fans Penn &#38; Teller.

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		<title>Why can&#8217;t Darwin film find a US distributor?</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/12/why-cant-darwin-film-find-a-us-distributor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that the new film Creation (starring husband-and-wife actors Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly as Charles Darwin and wife Emma Darwin) has failed to find a distributor in the United States.  The film deals with Darwin&#8217;s life after his &#8217;round-the-world voyage on the Beagle and his personal struggle to come [...]]]></description>
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