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		<title>Gone A Viking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had my heart valve repair/replacement moved to 3/11 at 8 am. I&#8217;ll be in the hospital for 5-7 days and won&#8217;t be posting during that time. I look forward to returning to writing in a week or two.
Meanwhile, for your listening pleasure:

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		<title>From the Bronze Age to the Enlightenment&#8230;and Back?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
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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.
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		<title>Nithing of the Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aheathensday.com/?p=1444</guid>
		<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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		<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>
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		<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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		<title>Divining Man: A Belief in the Absurd or Just Absurd?</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/divining-man-a-belief-in-the-absurd-or-just-absurd.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/divining-man-a-belief-in-the-absurd-or-just-absurd.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People can accept without reservation the miraculous - and on the face of it absurd - story of Jesus' divine birth or apotheosis but dismiss as ridiculous similar (and far older) stories of Pagan divine men.]]></description>
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		<title>Pagan + politics</title>
		<link>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/pagan-politics.html</link>
		<comments>http://aheathensday.com/2010/02/pagan-politics.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrafnkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to draw attention to a new project of the Pagan Newswire Collective http://www.pagannewswirecollective.com/ called Pagan + politics http://politics.pagannewswirecollective.com/, a blog designed to talk about the controversial issues and hot topics in the news from a Pagan perspective.
There will be two conservative bloggers, two moderate/independent bloggers, and two liberal/progressive bloggers – including one [...]]]></description>
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