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	<title>Friendly Atheist by @hemantmehta</title>
	<link>http://friendlyatheist.com</link>
	<description>Atheism with Positivity</description>
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		<title>An Atheist&#8217;s Version of Immortality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest XKCD offers a beautiful explanation of why most atheists don&#8217;t fear death &#8212; we know that it&#8217;s possible for us to make a difference even after we die.  We can leave behind legacies and memories, of course, but we can also leave behind physical parts of ourselves to people who need them:

I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friendlyatheist.com/2009/11/07/an-atheists-version-of-immortality/</link>
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		<title>Vote for the Bad Faith Award 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bad Faith Award is given out by New Humanist magazine and it goes to &#8220;the person who has made the year&#8217;s most outstanding contribution to talking unadulterated (and often destructive) nonsense about matters of religion.&#8221;
Last year, the winner was Sarah Palin.
This year&#8217;s nominees are certainly worthy&#8230; to say the least.

Adnan Oktar, aka Harun Yahya
Anjem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friendlyatheist.com/2009/11/07/vote-for-the-bad-faith-award-2009/</link>
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		<title>Fingerprints are the Mark of the Beast, Says Kindergarten Teacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all heard stories about how some Christians pharmacists cite &#8220;conscience clauses&#8221; to withhold birth control or morning-after pills from women because those things go against their faith.  (Of course, they should be fired for not doing their job.)
But this notion of religious fundamentalists thinking the rules don&#8217;t apply to them stretches beyond the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friendlyatheist.com/2009/11/07/fingerprints-are-the-mark-of-the-beast-says-kindergarten-teacher/</link>
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		<title>If Only He Were Driving an Atheist Bus&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LeRoy Matthews led people in prayer on Tuesday night.  And now, he&#8217;s in trouble,
The reason?  He led the prayer while driving a Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority bus&#8230; And he wouldn&#8217;t let passengers out until the prayer was over.

In the complaint, the passenger told MARTA officials the bus was traveling northbound when it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friendlyatheist.com/2009/11/07/if-only-he-were-driving-an-atheist-bus/</link>
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		<title>The BibleThumper iPhone App</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of Bible-related iPhone applications out there, but this one is slightly different.
Shake up your phone and a new Bible verse appears.  
An amusing, possibly-graphic, potentially-obscene, and/or violent Bible verse.  
Good times.

The designer of the app, Francis Dierick, took this project personally.  In an email, he writes:

Selecting those quotes was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friendlyatheist.com/2009/11/07/the-biblethumper-iphone-app/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;In God We Trust&#8221; Lawsuit Dismissed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you sitting down?
You may want to be sitting down for this.
It looks like your money will continue to have &#8220;In God We Trust&#8221; written on it.  
The lawsuit filed by atheist Carlos Kidd against President Obama and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve to remove the motto from the currency was dismissed by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friendlyatheist.com/2009/11/06/in-god-we-trust-lawsuit-dismissed/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Jealous of My Soul-Buyer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Jim Henderson, a.k.a. &#8220;He Who Bought My Soul on eBay,&#8221; is going to be featured on an episode of This American Life this weekend!
The subject: Bait and Switch.

This week the theme is Bait and Switch and of course they thought about Christians.
So they found Off The Map because we are in the business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friendlyatheist.com/2009/11/06/im-jealous-of-my-soul-buyer/</link>
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		<title>What Really Happened at That Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago Meeting?  (Part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunsara Taylor has responded (in three parts) to the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago&#8217;s letter that I posted earlier today. 
First, we have her personal response, titled &#8220;Why I Was Dis-Invited, Why I Did Not Just Shut Up And Go Away, and Why It Still Matters&#8220;:

&#8230; All of this is informed by my worldview as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friendlyatheist.com/2009/11/06/what-really-happened-at-that-ethical-humanist-society-of-chicago-meeting-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Sick and Twisted Belief: A Letter from Hell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is by Jesse Galef
&#8211;
I just started my day with a dose of outrage.  The notion of hell exists in many religions and denominations.  If a person believed it to be torture and that his friends or family members would suffer eternally unless they converted, it makes sense for them to evangelize.
What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friendlyatheist.com/2009/11/06/sick-and-twisted-belief-a-letter-from-hell/</link>
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		<title>Ask Richard: An Annoying Religious Sign on My Commute to Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Hi Richard,
This is something that i&#8217;ve been wracking my brain about lately.  I live in Lynchburg, Virginia (yes, THAT Lynchburg) and there&#8217;s this one house on this one street that happens to be on my route to work.  This guy has his own personal little church sign board you can put lettering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friendlyatheist.com/2009/11/06/ask-richard-an-annoying-religious-sign-on-my-commute-to-work/</link>
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