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	<title>A Heathen&#039;s Day &#187; Religion</title>
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	<description>The Life and Thoughts of a Modern Day American Heathen</description>
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		<title>The Christian War on Paganism Continues</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2011/12/the-christian-war-on-paganism-continues.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Air Force Academy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s an old war. The Jews fought it first, back in the 7th century B.C.E. The Christians then picked up the stick and spent a half-dozen centuries clubbing Pagans in the Roman Empire and turned their attention to Northern and Eastern Europe to murder Pagans there well into the Late Middle Ages. Fundamentalist Christians absolutely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Heathen&#8217;s Day Stands with Planned Parenthood</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2011/03/a-heathens-day-stands-with-planned-parenthood.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2011/03/a-heathens-day-stands-with-planned-parenthood.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House has voted to bar Planned Parenthood health centers from all federal funding for birth control, cancer screenings, HIV testing, and other lifesaving care.]]></description>
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		<title>The Middle Way: Herman Melville’s Polytheism</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/12/the-middle-way-herman-melville%e2%80%99s-polytheism.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/12/the-middle-way-herman-melville%e2%80%99s-polytheism.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Polytheism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Melville himself seems to have recognized that the presence of many gods — many distinct and incommensurate good ways of life — was a possibility our own American culture could and should be aiming at.  The death of God therefore, in Melville’s inspiring picture, leads not to a culture overtaken by meaninglessness but to a culture directed by a rich sense for many new possible and incommensurate meanings.]]></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>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/10/the-salem-witch-trials-revisted.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reason]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Witchcraft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bigotry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free exercise clause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intolerance]]></category>
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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>Heathen&#8217;s Day Featured in 50 Best Blogs for Wiccans</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/10/heathens-day-featured-in-50-best-blogs-for-wiccans.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/10/heathens-day-featured-in-50-best-blogs-for-wiccans.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogs of Note]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Extremism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online Christian Colleges</a> is running a piece on the 50 Best Blogs for Wiccans. Refreshingly, they point out that "One of the most misunderstood minority religions in the world today, Wicca involves a wide variety of different beliefs and practices."]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Digital Gods</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/09/introducing-digital-gods.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1535</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As one of the fastest growing “religions” (it’s actually many religions) on the planet, Pagans need to consider the role of technology in their religious landscape. Is science our friend, our enemy, or a mixed-bag? Is it something we can use, or something that, ultimately, will end up using us?]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<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>Sky Gods and My Gods</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/08/sky-gods-and-my-gods.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/08/sky-gods-and-my-gods.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1522</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Clearly, too much attention can be given the old Indo-European Sky God routine. Just because the sky father is a sky father and the earth mother is an earth mother does not mean the earth mother is more approachable.]]></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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