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		<title>Pareidolia and Anthropomorphism</title>
		<link>http://breakingspells.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/pareidolia-and-anthropomorphism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ylooshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Moreau, a 47 year old Canadian man, recently noticed the tree growing in his yard presents the image of &#8220;the Virgin Mary.&#8221; According to the Sun Media article in the link, the tree: has left dumbfounded residents wondering if their neighbourhood has been divinely blessed. Some have even been brought to tears by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=breakingspells.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2266738&amp;post=162&amp;subd=breakingspells&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Domain for Breaking Spells</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ylooshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just set up a domain and imported this blog to http://breakingspells.net so if you have me linked you might want to update that link. I&#8217;m using a web hosting and domain registration service called 1and1.com and I really like what they do. If anyone else has been considering moving their blog to its own [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=breakingspells.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2266738&amp;post=159&amp;subd=breakingspells&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Militant Atheism</title>
		<link>http://breakingspells.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/militant-atheism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ylooshi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Myths of Atheism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vjack has a post on the label of militant atheism over at Atheist Revolution that is definitely worth reading. Be sure to click on the comments link and see what his readers are saying.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=breakingspells.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2266738&amp;post=156&amp;subd=breakingspells&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creationists dealt a blow in Calif.</title>
		<link>http://breakingspells.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/creationists-get-blown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ylooshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to include this with the Sunday Cult Watch since creationism really is a cult (within a cult), fitting the definition leading the Cult Watch post quite well: the adherents of various creationist cults invoke a particular form of worship that involves special creation of humans; animals created as &#8220;kinds;&#8221; a global flood [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=breakingspells.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2266738&amp;post=144&amp;subd=breakingspells&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Cult Watch</title>
		<link>http://breakingspells.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/sunday-cult-watch-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[cult &#8211; n. A particular form or system of religious worship; esp. in reference to its external rites and ceremonies. -Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. 1989 This is the recent cult news for the last few weeks. The Catholic Cult A 55-year old Delaware woman becomes the first female survivor of priestly sex abuse in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=breakingspells.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2266738&amp;post=145&amp;subd=breakingspells&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Need for Absurd Belief Among Fundamentalists</title>
		<link>http://breakingspells.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/the-need-for-absurd-belief-among-fundamentalists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ylooshi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://breakingspells.wordpress.com/?p=135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is there a &#8220;culture war&#8221; between science and religion? Religionists, particularly the more fundamentalist of them, frequently object to scientific facts of evolution, geology, DNA, and so on. They very often assert that very paranormal and supernatural events described in Christian mythology are genuine and that these events occurred regardless of their unscientific and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=breakingspells.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2266738&amp;post=135&amp;subd=breakingspells&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the United States a Christian Nation</title>
		<link>http://breakingspells.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/is-the-united-states-a-christian-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ylooshi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://breakingspells.wordpress.com/?p=131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the problems with Yahoo! Answers is that once you answer a question, if someone else comes along and follows up with an answer that you&#8217;d like to respond to because it is factually incorrect, you can&#8217;t. You only get one shot at answering. So, if anyone at Yahoo! Answers sees this and would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=breakingspells.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2266738&amp;post=131&amp;subd=breakingspells&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Catholic League Would be a Joke if not so Wretched</title>
		<link>http://breakingspells.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/catholic-league/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ylooshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You don&#8217;t have a right to go into the street and mock my religion&#8230;&#8221; That&#8217;s a direct quote of William Donohue, the president of the Catholic League. The CL and its loud, ridiculous leader, routinely attack the critics and the &#8220;blasphemers&#8221; of the catholic cult. Donohue attempts to portray the CL as an &#8220;anti-defamation&#8221; league, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=breakingspells.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2266738&amp;post=124&amp;subd=breakingspells&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creation on the Web and Morality</title>
		<link>http://breakingspells.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/codswallop-on-the-web-and-morality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ylooshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Codswallop on the Web has an article titled, &#8220;Can we be good without god?&#8221; To the atheist, this question need not even be answered since we have no gods yet we&#8217;re &#8220;good.&#8221; Sure, there are &#8220;bad&#8221; atheists. Arguably fewer than there are &#8220;bad&#8221; theists, but then atheists don&#8217;t walk the Earth with an imagined &#8220;get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=breakingspells.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2266738&amp;post=120&amp;subd=breakingspells&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>James Ross: My Stalker, My Friend</title>
		<link>http://breakingspells.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/james-ross-my-stalker-my-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ylooshi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://breakingspells.wordpress.com/?p=115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, perhaps &#8220;stalker&#8221; is a little harsh, since it isn&#8217;t as though he&#8217;s followed me around from site to site on the internet. He&#8217;s stayed in the Employee of 1800Flowers.com thread, getting his attention fix there. His last comment was deleted, since it started off calling his host a &#8220;dunce&#8221; and a &#8220;cluck.&#8221; Sorry, pal, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=breakingspells.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2266738&amp;post=115&amp;subd=breakingspells&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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