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<title>The Infidel Guy Show</title>
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<title>Opiate of the masses - and evolutionary aid</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Christian creationists have long railed against the theory of evolution. But you may not have heard anything yet.

A new Canadian paper in the journal Science suggests that Christianity itself may be a function of evolution.

In a review article that is sure to prove controversial, University of British Columbia researchers say that the world''''s great religions may have emerged as a codification of cultural traits that allowed people to be more successful breeders.

"We're setting aside ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-10-05T02:15:00-05:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by Shinai_Gene</dc:creator>
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<title>Pittsburgh Episcopalians Vote to Leave US Church</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, dominated by critics of the liberal direction of their denomination nationally, today voted to leave the U.S. Episcopal Church and to become a part of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, which includes the nations of South America from Peru south. The leadership of the Pittsburgh Diocese had many criticisms of the national church, but the precipitating event for the split was the denomination's approval of the election of a gay priest, the Rev. V. Gen]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-10-05T02:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by Shinai_Gene</dc:creator>
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<title>Did Muhammad Ever Really Live?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A number of Islamic associations have put a quick end to their collaboration with a professor -- and trainer of people who are supposed to teach Islam in German high schools -- who has expressed his doubt that Muhammad ever lived. Islam scholar Michael Marx spoke with SPIEGEL ONLINE about what lies behind the debate and the historical person of the Prophet.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mr. Marx, someone studying Islam learns that the Prophet Muhammad was born on the Arabian Peninsula in A.D. 570 and died ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-10-04T20:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by Shinai_Gene</dc:creator>
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<title>Earliest Reference Describes Christ as &#39;Magician&#39;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Oct. 1, 2008 -- A team of scientists led by renowned French marine archaeologist Franck Goddio recently announced that they have found a bowl, dating to between the late 2nd century B.C. and the early 1st century A.D., that is engraved with what they believe could be the world's first known reference to Christ.

If the word "Christ" refers to the Biblical Jesus Christ, as is speculated, then the discovery may provide evidence that Christianity and paganism at times intertwined in the ancient w]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-10-03T01:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by Shinai_Gene</dc:creator>
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<title>Atheist family challenges minute of silence law</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Every day in every Texas public school, students pledge allegiance to the U.S. and Texas flags and sit through a moment of silence so they can pray, meditate, daydream or twiddle their thumbs.

The quiet time, mandated by the Legislature since 2003, has survived one federal court challenge, but a pending appeal seeks to scrap the practice as an improper religious exercise.

"It's clear if you watch the video and read the transcripts of the legislative debates that the main purpose of this la]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-10-02T02:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by Shinai_Gene</dc:creator>
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<title>Oregon school says 4 confessed to Obama effigy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NEWBERG, Ore. - A Christian university in Oregon said Tuesday it has punished four students who confessed to hanging a likeness of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on campus.

George Fox University broke the news to students and staff Tuesday afternoon at an all-campus meeting. About 1,000 people attended, said Rob Felton, a university spokesman.

A statement from the school said the penalties against the four students were "immediate long-term suspension and public]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-10-01T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Orange County pastors test the IRS rule against politicking</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two Orange County ministers were among dozens across the country taking politics to the pulpit Sunday in hopes of influencing the Nov. 4 presidential election.

Unlike some pastors elsewhere who endorsed Republican John McCain during "Pulpit Freedom Sunday," the two ministers stopped short of explicitly recommending that worshipers vote for either McCain or Democrat Barack Obama. But they were not shy about raising politics in church.

Pastor Stephen B. Orman urged those attending his Warner]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-09-30T01:30:00-05:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by Shinai_Gene</dc:creator>
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<title>The fight over teaching science in Texas begins</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last week the first draft of the science curriculum that would be used in Texas schools for the next 10 years was released. The size of the fight to come was quickly made evident by members of the state Board of Education who want to inject religion into the public schools.

The draft, the work of science teachers and academics, would remove language from the guidelines that govern the teaching of science that mandates that classrooms include covering the "weaknesses" of major scientific theor]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-09-29T17:30:00-05:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by Shinai_Gene</dc:creator>
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<title>Evangelist arrested in child porn case</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Evangelist Tony Alamo was arrested Thursday in Flagstaff, Arizona, on charges related to a child porn investigation, an FBI spokesman said.

 The 74-year-old founder and leader of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries was arrested without incident at 2:45 p.m. (4:45 p.m. ET) as he was departing the Little America Hotel with his wife, said Manuel Johnson, spokesman for the FBI in Phoenix, Arizona.

The FBI, the Flagstaff Police Department and the Arizona Department of Public Safety were involved in]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-09-28T06:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by Shinai_Gene</dc:creator>
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<title>Is English law related to Muslim law?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In London''''s historic "Inns of Court", barristers practise law in the shadow of the distinctive medieval Temple Church. But does English law really owe a debt to Muslim law?
For some scholars, a historical connection to Islam is a "missing link" that explains why English common law is so different from classical Roman legal systems that hold sway across much of the rest of Europe.
It''''s a controversial idea. Common law has inspired legal systems across the world. What''''s more, calls for ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-09-25T17:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>More atheists are sharing their views</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When she first logged onto an atheist Web site five years ago, Mikel Childers'' hands were shaking.

Since she was a teen, she had harbored growing doubts about the conservative Christian faith, "but I was so programmed against the word atheist," she said.

When she eventually decided she was one, a "feeling of almost euphoria" descended upon her, said Childers, now 28.

"I no longer had to justify why a good and loving God would allow (bad) things to happen," she said.

Her experience i]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-09-25T01:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Islamic Cleric Issues A fatwa against Mickey Mouse</title>
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<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160; Maybe Islamic cleric Muhammad Al-Munajid is just more of a Bugs Bunny sort of guy?

&#160;&#160;&#160; In an interview with Al-Majd Television the sheikh, a former diplomat who once served in the Saudi embassy in Washington, condemned cartoons that endear rodents to their viewers.

&#160;&#160;&#160; Islamic law, he said, sees the mouse as &#8220;a repulsive, corrupting creature&#8221; while children today see mice as loveable and &#8220;awesome&#8221; because of animated ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-09-17T19:19:46-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>State faces “mark of the beast” lawsuit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Does it violate freedom of religion for the government to require that electronic markers be implanted in cows and other livestock? A group of Michigan farmers thinks it does and they&#8217;ve filed suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) to prevent the requirement of electronic tags on their livestock.

The tagging procedure is being mandated to help the government track diseases in animals as they travel from farm to slaughterho]]></description>
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<title>Lose your house, lose your vote</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP&#8217;s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.

&#8220;We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren&#8217;t voting from those addresses,&#8221; party chairman James Carabelli told Michigan Messenger in a telephone interview earlier ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-09-17T01:11:07-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Church of England Apologizes to Darwin-126 Year After his Death</title>
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<description><![CDATA[
The Church of England will tomorrow officially apologise to Charles Darwin for misunderstanding his theory of evolution.
In a bizarre step, the Church will address its contrition directly to the Victorian scientist himself, even though he died 126 years ago.
But the move was greeted with derision last night, with Darwin&#8217;s great-great-grandson dismissing it as &#8216;pointless&#8217; and other critics branding it &#8216;ludicrous&#8217;.
Church officials compared the apology to the lat]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-09-15T00:11:34-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Italy's Object Lesson</title>
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<description><![CDATA[
    If you were looking for an object lesson on why the separation of church and state is a good idea, look no further than Italy, where a satirist is being prosecuted for insulting Pope Benedict XVI.

&#34;Italy's Ministry of Justice has given prosecutors in Rome permission to proceed under the Lateran Treaty against comedienne and satirist Sabina Guzzanti. She is charged with &#34;offending the honour of the sacred and inviolable person&#34; of Pope Benedict XVI. During a comedy routine]]></description>
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<title>Superstitions evolved to help us survive</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Darwin never warned against crossing black cats, walking under ladders or stepping on cracks in the pavement, but his theory of natural selection explains why people believe in such nonsense.

The tendency to falsely link cause to effect &#8211; a superstition &#8211; is occasionally beneficial, says Kevin Foster, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University.

For instance, a prehistoric human might associate rustling grass with the approach of a predator and hide. Most of the time, the w]]></description>
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<title>This Day in History: September the 11th</title>
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<description><![CDATA[
1822: The College of Cardinals finally caves in to the hard facts of science, saying that the &#34;publication of works treating of the motion of the Earth and the stability of the sun, in accordance with the opinion of modern astronomers, is permitted.&#34;
It represented a major shift in dogma for the Catholic Church, a concession that the Earth, in fact, might revolve around the sun. Unfortunately, it came 189 years too late to do Galileo Galilei any good.
Still, it would take another 1]]></description>
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<title>Anthropologists Develop New Approach To Explain Religious Behavior</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Without a way to measure religious beliefs, anthropologists have had difficulty studying religion. Now, two anthropologists from the University of Missouri and Arizona State University have developed a new approach to study religion by focusing on verbal communication, an identifiable behavior, instead of speculating about alleged beliefs in the supernatural that cannot actually be identified. 
&#34;Instead of studying religion by trying to measure unidentifiable beliefs in the supernatural, w]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-09-10T03:00:40-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Ban on Political Endorsements by Pastors Targeted</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- Declaring that clergy have a constitutional right to endorse political candidates from their pulpits, the socially conservative Alliance Defense Fund is recruiting several dozen pastors to do just that on Sept. 28, in defiance of Internal Revenue Service rules. 
 The effort by the Arizona-based legal consortium is designed to trigger an IRS investigation that ADF lawyers would then challenge in federal court. The ultimate goal is to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out a 54-y]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-09-09T01:55:54-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Fla. court tosses ballot attempts to allow public religion funding</title>
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<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160; Florida's Supreme Court on Wednesday tossed out two statewide ballot initiatives aimed at ending a longstanding ban on public funding for religious institutions, drawing praise from church-state watchdogs.
&#160;&#160;&#160; Civil liberties groups had filed suit to remove the amendments headed for the November ballot, which sought to rewrite the state constitution to allow church groups to participate in government programs, and pave the way for school voucher programs.

&#38;n]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-09-06T03:21:38-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>VCU: Debate between Christopher Hitchens &amp; Frank Turek</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Essentials: 
Tuesday, September 9, 2008&#160;
7:00pm - 9:00pm
VCU: Commonwealth Ballroom in the Student Commons&#160;  
Richmond, VA

The Moderator:&#160; Timothy Hulsey, Ph.D., is the Dean of the Honors College and Associate Professor of Psychology. Prior to coming to VCU, he was Director of the Honors Program at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.....

The Debaters: 

Frank Turek is the founder and president of CrossExamined.org and its primary presenter. Frank is a coau]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-09-05T20:34:50-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Texas to teachers: Bible will be taught</title>
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<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160; The Bible's history and literature will be required to be taught in public schools in Texas under a new law that has been clarified by the state attorney general to mean exactly what it says.

&#160;&#160;&#160; &#34;This is a huge victory for the people of Texas and, I think, for people across the country for academic freedom,&#34; said Jonathan Saenz, a lawyer for Liberty Legal. &#34;There are 1,300 references to the Bible in the works of Shakespeare alone. Over 60 perc]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-09-03T23:20:13-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Palin: average isn't good enough</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Sam Harris 
September 3, 2008

So let us ask the question that should be on the mind of every thinking person in the world at this moment: If John McCain becomes the 44th president of the United States, what are the odds that a blood clot or falling object will make Sarah Palin the 45th?

The actuarial tables on the Social Security Administration website suggest that there is a better than 10% chance that McCain will die during his first term in office. Needless to say, the Reaper's scyt]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-09-03T14:25:35-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>What Happens to Religion When It Is Biologized?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Zoloft works better than God,&#8221; a Catholic priest once told me during a conversation about depression. This is not the kind of man to give up on faith; our talks always finish with his reminders to pray. But in matters of body, and in matters of mind more and more, he and many others sense the right thing to do&#8212;religiously&#8212;is to consult a scientist.

In recent years, such common sense has given rise to a new paradigm in the study of human religiosity, one founded in a laborato]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-09-03T14:18:08-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Discovery: Pre-Historic Cult Cemetary From 8,500 BC</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Excavations at Kfar HaHoresh, in the north of Israel, led by Prof. Nigel Goring-Morris of Hebrew University's Institute of Archaeology, have revealed a prehistoric funerary precinct dating back to 6,750-8,500 BC. This funerary has grave goods including phallic figurines and sea shells from the Mediterranean and Red Seas, along with other items from Syria, Cyprus and Anatolia.

While fertility symbols during this period are often associated with female imagery, at Kfar HaHoresh only phallic fig]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-09-01T18:06:03-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Palin on Life, Faith, and Creation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[
John McCain's vice-presidential pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, is an evangelical Protestant with a strong record of opposition to abortion and an openness to teaching creationism in the public schools. 
Palin is the mother of five children, one of whom was born with Down Syndrome. She learned that her son had Down Syndrome when she was four months pregnant, and she told the Associated Press in May that she never considered ending the pregnancy. &#34;We've both been very vocal about being pro]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-08-30T22:58:31-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Vatican warns of growing ''Christianophobia''</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ROME, Aug 29 (Reuters) - &#34;Christianophobia&#34; is a growing problem around the world and it must be fought with the same determination as anti-Semitism or Islamophobia, the Vatican said on Friday.
Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican's foreign minister, spoke in the wake of attacks against Christians in India that have left at least 13 people dead this week.
Mamberti, addressing a conference in northern Italy, said religious freedom was a vital part of international relations and ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-08-29T16:41:54-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>Hard times for Japan's temples</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In Japan there is concern that the temple - traditional place of worship for Buddhists across the country - is under threat, particularly in rural areas where the population is aging and the younger generation are leaving for big cities, as Chris Hogg discovered

Shinkyo Toyoma has three sons and they are all mad keen on judo.

The eldest is 18, a big lad, and he is grimacing at me. No teenager likes to be shown off to guests.

Mr Toyoma takes no notice. He is proud of his three boys. But ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-08-29T01:55:13-05:00</dc:date>
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<title>DOJ Disputes Atheist's Claim of Religious Intolerance in Military</title>
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<description><![CDATA[(July 14th, 2008) When Army Specialist Jeremy Hall declined to participate in a Christian prayer ceremony to commemorate Thanksgiving in November 2006 he said he was alienated by his staff sergeant and subjected to vicious personal attacks for stating that he did not believe in God.

Determined to find soldiers who were also atheists, Hall organized a meeting for freethinkers at Combat Operations Base Speicher, Iraq. He said he received permission from the Army chaplain stationed at Speicher t]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-08-29T01:43:26-05:00</dc:date>
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