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		<title>Adopt  me, please</title>
		<link>http://atheistetiquette.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/adopt-me-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the Catholic League is starting an &#8220;Adopt An Atheist&#8221; program, wherein Christians are encouraged to &#8220;adopt&#8221; atheists and enage in &#8220;working with them to uncover their inner self. They may be resistant at first, but eventually they may come to understand that they were Christian all along.&#8221; I&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheistetiquette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684199&amp;post=1138&amp;subd=atheistetiquette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;War&#8221; is over, if you want it</title>
		<link>http://atheistetiquette.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/war-is-over-if-you-want-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I work in customer service (tech support for an Internet-related service), and for what it&#8217;s worth, we&#8217;ve never been given any official instructions or guidance about the whole &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; vs. &#8220;happy holidays&#8221; thing. We&#8217;re allowed to say whatever we think is appropriate (and most likely to get the customer to fill out a survey [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheistetiquette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684199&amp;post=1135&amp;subd=atheistetiquette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday non-Sermon: A fine &#8220;Wine&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve linked to videos of this song before, but this is a new animation of Tim Minchin&#8216;s modern atheist holiday classic, &#8220;White Wine In The Sun&#8221;  (via PZ)The animation is a bit overly literal for my taste &#8212; reminiscent of the early &#8217;80s music videos where e very scene was a direct illustration of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheistetiquette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684199&amp;post=1129&amp;subd=atheistetiquette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Sermon: Tardis edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really should have written this a few weeks ago, given the subject matter, but let&#8217;s just pretend I have a time machine and that this is still December: Something that occurs to me is that being an atheist is kind of like being a grownup at Christmastime. We have this shared knowledge that&#8217;s not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheistetiquette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684199&amp;post=1119&amp;subd=atheistetiquette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Sermon: The discovery of lying</title>
		<link>http://atheistetiquette.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/sunday-sermon-the-discovery-of-lying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still really busy with studying for tech certifications (closing in on the last MCSA module, now I just need to schedule the exams), so I&#8217;m afraid I just haven&#8217;t been thinking much about the whole atheism thing (I&#8217;m neglecting my main blog as well). But I&#8217;ve been sitting on this nice video of Ricky Gervais [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheistetiquette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684199&amp;post=1114&amp;subd=atheistetiquette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Sermon: Trends with benefits</title>
		<link>http://atheistetiquette.wordpress.com/2010/12/19/sunday-sermon-trends-with-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the bogus arguments offered in favor of religion is the old &#8220;if it makes people happy &#8230;&#8221; line. They cite studies showing that religious people are happier or more content or find life more fulfilling or some such thing, and then suggest that this is somehow an argument in favor of the truth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheistetiquette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684199&amp;post=1108&amp;subd=atheistetiquette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Tis the season, again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brachinus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s that time of the year again, when Christians start imagining themselves to be oppressed because their hegemony isn&#8217;t absolutely complete, and atheists find themselves wondering if it&#8217;s OK to have a coniferous tree in the house and some lights on the roof, and lots of folks are in a bit of a bind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheistetiquette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684199&amp;post=1100&amp;subd=atheistetiquette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, it&#8217;s Thanksgiving, traditionally a day of giving thanks to God and the semi-official beginning of the holiday season (and therefore of people whining about calling it the &#8220;holiday&#8221; season and all that crap &#8212; I may have more on that later). So what&#8217;s an atheist to do? I say, be thankful. It&#8217;s not like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheistetiquette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684199&amp;post=1091&amp;subd=atheistetiquette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Sermon: Gene therapy</title>
		<link>http://atheistetiquette.wordpress.com/2010/11/14/sunday-sermon-gene-therapy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brachinus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m delighted to learn that one of my favorite writers, the Washington Post&#8217;s Gene Weingarten (best known for his Pulitzer-winning &#8220;Pearls Before Breakfast&#8221; experiment as well as a great, must-read piece on children&#8217;s party clown The Great Zucchini), is an atheist, and today&#8217;s column is devoted to the recent Pew study showing atheists know more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheistetiquette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684199&amp;post=1086&amp;subd=atheistetiquette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Theists I Admire(d): Uncle Howard</title>
		<link>http://atheistetiquette.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/theists-i-admired-uncle-howard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago I lost my Uncle Howard and his wife, my Aunt Mary (they&#8217;re on the right in this family photo from 19mmhmm), who died within a few days of each other, both in their &#8217;90s and suffering from various ailments Uncle Howard was my &#8220;funny uncle,&#8221; the one who always had a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheistetiquette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7684199&amp;post=1083&amp;subd=atheistetiquette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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