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	<title>A Heathen&#039;s Day &#187; Politics</title>
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		<title>Free Your Mind in 2012</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2012/01/free-your-mind-in-2012.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Heathen I find it as annoying to have people worrying about my “immortal soul” as I do having them think I worship rocks and trees. Worse is the idea that by practicing my First Amendment rights to freedom of belief I am destroying America by promoting and participating in a “Pagan culture” of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Salem Witch Trials Revisted</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/10/the-salem-witch-trials-revisted.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rise of religious fundamentalism in the United States, combined with an anti-intellectual bias, have combined to raise the specter of the witch-hunt. It is well to be aware of the lessons of history that we avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. A look at the Salem witch-trials provide a salutary lesson for us all.]]></description>
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		<title>Bryan Fischer &#8211; Niðing of the Week</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/09/bryan-fischer-ni%c3%b0ing-of-the-week.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/09/bryan-fischer-ni%c3%b0ing-of-the-week.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bryan Fischer, conservative leader who is anti-human decency, is going to be speaking at the yearly Values Voter Summit and will likely spew a quantity of hate that would have left Hitler jealous.]]></description>
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		<title>The Persecuted Christian Meme and Religious Toleration</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/09/the-persecuted-christian-meme-and-religious-toleration.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/09/the-persecuted-christian-meme-and-religious-toleration.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1532</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Religious divisions are rife in the United States, a country founded on the idea of religious tolerance and more than ever inter-faith efforts are needed to smooth these divisions against a rising tide of xenophobia, fear, and hate.]]></description>
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		<title>Islamophobia and an American Heathen</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/08/islamophobia-and-an-american-heathen.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/08/islamophobia-and-an-american-heathen.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new post, Islamophobia and an American Heathen, is up at Pagan + Politics. You can also find a recent post on this subject by me at PoliticusUSA, here]]></description>
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		<title>Bend Over and Kiss Your Golden Idol Goodbye</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/08/bend-over-and-kiss-your-golden-idol-goodbye.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/08/bend-over-and-kiss-your-golden-idol-goodbye.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1517</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since Akhenaten’s failed experiment with monotheism in the fourteenth century B.C.E. monotheism has waged war on mankind. It was not enough for Akhenaten to simply install a cult devoted to one god, or even as one god as the only god. He had to demolish the other gods and their worship.]]></description>
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		<title>Some Thoughts on a Heathen Political Landscape</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/07/some-thoughts-on-a-heathen-political-landscape.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/07/some-thoughts-on-a-heathen-political-landscape.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Should a Heathen politician act like a Christian when entering politics? It might garner more votes, seeming to be like everyone else, but the focus on honor, on realism over dogmatism, or as I’ve always put it, “good old fashioned Scandinavian pragmatism” the political landscape might be a refreshing place.]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Mikey Weinstein of Military Religious Freedom Foundation</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/interview-with-mikey-weinstein-of-military-religious-freedom-foundation.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/interview-with-mikey-weinstein-of-military-religious-freedom-foundation.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fundamentalist will say “To hell and fuck the Constitution and case law because that’s just flawed man’s law and I will subordinate that to my Weaponized Gospel of Jesus Christ.”]]></description>
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		<title>Conservatives Argue Against the Constitution When They Oppose Gay Marriage</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/conservatives-argue-against-the-constitution-when-they-oppose-gay-marriage.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/conservatives-argue-against-the-constitution-when-they-oppose-gay-marriage.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Granting everybody the same rights – to serve in the military, to get married, to have the same rights before the law – these are not “special rights” but the very basic rights guaranteed to every individual in the United States – by law.]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Universal Gender Roles and Categories</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/the-myth-of-universal-gender-roles-and-categories.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/the-myth-of-universal-gender-roles-and-categories.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1394</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In our world of assumed certainty, things are far less certain than we like to pretend. As it turns out, gender roles and categories are nebulous, shifting things. In the end, they are what we say they are from age to age and culture to culture. We decide man = x and woman = y but x and y are neither fixed nor universal.]]></description>
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