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	<title>Cyde Weys Musings &#187; Religion</title>
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		<title>An explanation for religiosity?</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/09/16/an-explanation-for-religiosity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/09/16/an-explanation-for-religiosity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[belief]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=999</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting article from England&#8217;s The Times newspaper: &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe that believers really believe&#8220;. It&#8217;s well worth reading in its entirety, but the gist is that the columnist does not believe that believers truly believe what they say, because their actions are wildly inconsistent with the professed beliefs. It&#8217;s an interesting argument, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion protesters never get old</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/28/abortion-protesters-never-get-old/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/28/abortion-protesters-never-get-old/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[embryo]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=971</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have much time to blog today, as Obama&#8217;s acceptance speech at Invesco Field (combined with the fiasco of the change of venue) is sucking all of the oxygen out of the atmosphere. It was actually hard just to find time on a computer. So I&#8217;ll focus this post on one little quirky aspect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How beliefs linger after faith is gone: My tale as a kosher atheist</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/07/kosher-atheist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/07/kosher-atheist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judaism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PZ Myers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reason]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=902</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking back over this blog, I&#8217;m realizing I really haven&#8217;t said too much about my religion (or rather, my lack thereof). It&#8217;s something a lot of people are interested in; heck, some bloggers make an entire career out of it (cough PZ Myers cough). So I figure I might as well take another crack at [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why Mormons evangelize in twos:  The power of pairs</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/27/evangelizing-in-pairs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/27/evangelizing-in-pairs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[door-to-door]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evangelism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jehovah's Witnesses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mormon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=879</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered why Mormons/Jehovah&#8217;s witnesses/etc. travel in pairs when they go door-to-door evangelizing? At first thought, you&#8217;d think it would be more efficient to split up and cover more ground. But they&#8217;ve clearly spent a lot of time thinking about it, because upon deeper examination, evangelizing in pairs is actually the optimal strategy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The good old days of American politics</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/23/religion-and-us-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/23/religion-and-us-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Ingersoll]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Man, how I yearn for the good old days of American politics, back when pandering to piety wasn&#8217;t a requirement of all candidates. Think Robert Ingersoll could be nearly as successful today? He was politically active for decades, yet gave huge speeches in nearly every city of America deriding religion. He was called the Great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Dianetics is better than the Bible</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/15/dianetics-vs-bible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/15/dianetics-vs-bible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ancient book]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=824</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am hardly a fan of Scientology, yet I find some humor in the fact that Scientology&#8217;s &#8220;holy book&#8221;, Dianetics, is better than the Bible in nearly every way. Here is my reasoning. First of all, Dianetics is much more self-consistent than the Bible. One need only to examine a brief list of contradictions in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help expose Expelled</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/15/help-expose-expelled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/15/help-expose-expelled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=746</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You too can do your part in fighting for science by linking to the Expelled Exposed website on whatever blog or personal site you happen to run. Expelled is a dishonest intelligent design creationism propaganda film, and Expelled Exposed is a site that gives the viewpoints of actual scientists (you know, the people you should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decrying publicly funded Islamic education in Minnesota</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/09/decrying-publicly-funded-islamic-education-in-minnesota/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/09/decrying-publicly-funded-islamic-education-in-minnesota/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[assimilation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charter school]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=740</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An investigative reporter out in Minnesota has uncovered a publicly funded Muslim charter school that is promoting the religion of Islam on the publics dime. The charter school is collocated with a mosque, and all students go over for &#8220;voluntary&#8221; prayer and Islamic education immediately after school, after the ritual washing of hands and feet, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific versus religious world views</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/09/scientific-versus-religious-worldviews/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/09/scientific-versus-religious-worldviews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=738</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading this excellent blog post about scientific versus religious world views by John Wilkins (who I know from talk.origins awhile back), I couldn&#8217;t help but sharing this most excellent passage. The next time you get harangued by a religious fellow claiming that reason and faith are equally valid ways of knowing things about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey look, more creationist dishonesty!</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/08/more-creationist-dishonesty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/08/more-creationist-dishonesty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=737</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, PZ Myers, famous atheist blogger and evolutionary developmental biologist, was at the center of a bit of a furor when producers at a screening of the creationism propaganda film &#8220;Expelled&#8221; had armed thugs kick him out of the theater, while completely ignoring his guest Richard Dawkins, an even more famous atheist. My blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now everyone&#8217;s been expelled from Expelled</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/26/all-expelled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/26/all-expelled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/26/all-expelled/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The blogohedron was full of great vengeance and furious anger last week when PZ Myers, renowned atheist blogger, was expelled from a screening of the creationist propaganda movie Expelled. It was glaringly obvious that the movie&#8217;s promoters had pulled off a stunning act of shooting themselves in the foot for the ages, and then continued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A very merry secular Easter</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/23/a-very-merry-secular-easter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/23/a-very-merry-secular-easter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/23/a-very-merry-secular-easter/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got back from my family&#8217;s annual Easter holiday meal at my aunt and uncle&#8217;s house. That in itself is very average, but the strictly secular nature of it isn&#8217;t. Allow me to explain. As far back as I can remember, we&#8217;ve gone to my aunt and uncle&#8217;s house for Easter. My aunt is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PZ Myers is expelled from Expelled</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/20/pz-myers-is-expelled-from-expelled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/20/pz-myers-is-expelled-from-expelled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/20/pz-myers-is-expelled-from-expelled/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Notable atheist blogger and professor PZ Myers was prohibited from attending a screening of the movie Expelled tonight. Expelled is a piece of abominable dishonest creationist propaganda dreck produced by Ben &#8220;Bueller&#8221; Stein that plays the &#8220;Ohh, big bad science is persecuting us poor little honest religious folk!&#8221; card. Naturally, they&#8217;ve been hypocritical about it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientology tries for restraining order against the anonymous multitude</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/13/scientology-restraining-order/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/13/scientology-restraining-order/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/13/scientology-restraining-order/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, this is going to be so much fun! Scientology is giving free publicity to Anonymous in a meatspace variant of the Streisand Effect (whereby trying to prohibit or censor something brings a lot more attention to it instead). The Church of Scientology is seeking a restraining order against Anonymous (all of it?) to prevent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t rest in my Jesus, it&#8217;s full</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/26/you-cant-rest-in-my-jesus-its-full/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/26/you-cant-rest-in-my-jesus-its-full/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking with a friend recently and she brought up the concept of resting in Jesus, which has something to do with easing your troubles by taking comfort in knowing that Jesus will take care of them for you. It&#8217;s a perfectly vacuous concept, of course, except I had never heard it called by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Anonymous video</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/24/latest-anonymous-video/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/24/latest-anonymous-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/24/latest-anonymous-video/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anonymous has released another video. This one includes a photo montage of the February 10 protests as well as an announcement of planned protests on March 15. And it even references one of my blog posts; woot! Although I didn&#8217;t end up attending the February 10 protests, I think these upcoming ones will prove too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treating sewage before dumping it is against my religion</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/15/treating-sewage-before-dumping-it-is-against-my-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/15/treating-sewage-before-dumping-it-is-against-my-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t go a day without reading more news about religiously inspired idiocy. Today, it&#8217;s the Amish&#8217;s turn (go Amish!). Members of an Amish community in Pennsylvania are facing fines and possible jail time because they don&#8217;t want to use 20th-century innovations in sanitation &#8212; which have long since been mandated by law, seeing as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Draw a cartoon?  That&#8217;s a slayin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/12/draw-a-cartoon-thats-a-slayin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/12/draw-a-cartoon-thats-a-slayin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey look, cartoons are apparently worth killing over. Of course, it&#8217;s not so much the cartoons themselves, but rather the culture of fear that the Islamists want to spread amongst the western world. The message is clear: do or say anything critical of Islam and we will kill you. And unfortunately, too many people are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;ve got the Devil in ya</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/12/youve-got-the-devil-in-ya/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/12/youve-got-the-devil-in-ya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone else find it absurd that exorcism is making a comeback? Is there anything more useless? Humankind realized centuries ago that science and medicine could explain (and cure) more ailments than superstitious religious voodoo ever dreamed of. So why do we still have idiots practicing exorcism? And why do we still have idiots who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who speaks for Anonymous?</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/11/who-speaks-for-anonymous/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/11/who-speaks-for-anonymous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traffic to this blog has exploded in the past day thanks to my post suggesting that the anti-Scientology organization Anonymous is a Stand Alone Complex. Being a Stand Alone Complex, there are no leaders, no chain of command, no orders, little cohesive organization, and the meaning of Anonymous is pretty much open to interpretation to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has Scientology&#8217;s day of reckoning arrived?</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/10/scientology-reckoning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/10/scientology-reckoning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s February 10, so you know what that means: the day of reckoning for Scientology is here. Well, hopefully. If Anonymous&#8217;s schemings go as planned, today will deal a huge blow to Scientology, with meatspace protests at a multitude of Scientology centers across the world. Although the hopes of deconverting members are slim, the importance [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>No true Christians</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/09/no-true-christians/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/09/no-true-christians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was an opinion columnist for University of Maryland&#8217;s student newspaper The Diamondback for three semesters before I graduated. The columns I wrote are still up on the web archive, but I&#8217;d rather not depend on The Diamondback to host them indefinitely. Thus, I have decided to repost them on this blog, not only to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientology faces more criticism in mainstream media thanks to Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/08/scientology-faces-more-criticism-in-mainstream-media-thanks-to-anonymous/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/08/scientology-faces-more-criticism-in-mainstream-media-thanks-to-anonymous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newsweek has published a story titled The Passion of Anonymous about the ongoing feud between Scientology and Anonymous. It&#8217;s also linked from the front page of Msnbc.com, which gives it excellent visibility. I have to give Anonymous lots of credit for successfully taking the war against Scientology this far (though I wish some of Anonymous&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A real life Stand Alone Complex emerges against Scientology</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/01/28/scientology-sac/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/01/28/scientology-sac/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the recent appearance of the anti-Scientology Internet-based movement named &#8220;Anonymous&#8221; we are witnessing the emergence of the first true virtual Stand Alone Complex as envisioned in the anime series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Allow me to explain. First, some background on what a Stand Alone Complex is, courtesy of Wikipedia: While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God dammit, Christopher Hitchens</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/01/23/god-dammit-christopher-hitchens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/01/23/god-dammit-christopher-hitchens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens is a puzzle to me. On the one hand, I really like and appreciate his outspoken activism on atheist causes. He&#8217;s even written a book called God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, which along with Richard Dawkins&#8217;s The God Delusion, is one of the great atheist advocacy books of the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shattering the inevitability myth of senescence</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/01/20/the-myth-of-senescence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/01/20/the-myth-of-senescence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask yourself this: why do you think of senescence (the process of deterioration resulting in becoming elderly, and eventually, dying of it) as inevitable? I ask why, not if, because universally nearly everyone seems to have simply accepted it without question. Yes, it may be true that death due to old age has been inevitable [...]]]></description>
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