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		<title>Intercultural Translations on Pagan+Politics</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/07/intercultural-translations-on-paganpolitics.html</link>
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		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new post is up on Pagan+Politics. See it here.]]></description>
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		<title>Nithing of the Week &#8211; Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, who is currently (one might say justifiably) running third in the state's Republican gubernatorial primary race, is apparently  not sure if the Constitution's guarantees of freedom of religion apply to Islam, which happens to be the world's second-largest religion - right after Ramsey's own religion.]]></description>
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		<title>God is Not Pro-Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a bumper sticker the other day that made me laugh. It said, in bright readable letters: “God is Pro-Life.” Really? I thought. What are we supposed to go by? This assertion, so often made by the would-be moral police on the Religious Right? Or the assertions supposedly made by God himself and his [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<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>A Review of Paxson&#8217;s Essential Ásatrú</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/04/a-review-of-paxsons-essential-asatru.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a long overdue review of Diana Paxson’s Essential Ásatrú, a book mentioned by S.M. Stirling as a resource for his Emberverse series (previously reviewed here). Diana Paxson is both a Pagan and an author – not only of speculative fiction but of nonfiction works relating to various aspects of Paganism. Essential Asatru: Walking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Bronze Age to the Enlightenment&#8230;and Back?</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/03/from-the-bronze-age-to-the-enlightenment-and-back.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/03/from-the-bronze-age-to-the-enlightenment-and-back.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new article on Pagan+Politics, inspired by the American Family Association&#8217;s demand to stone a killer whale and SeaWorld Orlando&#8217;s curator, deals with the issue of projecting ancient law codes into the present. You can find it here.]]></description>
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		<title>Nithing of the Week</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/03/nithing-of-the-week-4.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Huffington Post reported this week that "the American Family Association, a religious right group, is urging that Tillikum (Tilly), the killer whale that killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando, be put down, preferably by stoning. Citing Tilly's history of violent altercations, the group is slamming SeaWorld for not listening to Scripture in how to deal with the animal."]]></description>
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		<title>Equal Rights Are Not anti-Christian</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/03/equal-rights-are-not-anti-christian.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And here is where Barb White stands up and testifies to all, "I am a narrow-minded and intolerant bigot": “I’m here today to tell you that homosexuality and lesbian behavior is unhealthy,” claiming that gays and lesbians have higher rates of STDs than anyone else in the world, including, she asserts, “gay bowel disease,” an ailment the author of the article correctly points out that does not exist but which “is often used by religious right figures to paint gay men as diseased.”]]></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>Living and Dying &#8211; Heathen Style</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/living-and-dying-heathen-style.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/living-and-dying-heathen-style.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Heathen ancestors had a great many conceptions of death, and to what road it led: to the halls of our ancestors, to Hel (nothing like Christian hell but just a place you go when you die), to Valhöll if Odin chooses you. Skjöldunga Saga speaks of "going to King Odin" and "the underworld," and there is some sense of going "into the mountains" to join your ancestors. There is also a limited appeal to reincarnation, as Ellis-Davidson puts it,  "belief in the birth of the souls of dead ancestors into the living world again, in the persons of their descendants."[1] And of course, there are the dísir, who are female ancestors who have stayed behind to help the household.]]></description>
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