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		<title>The (Annual) Christmas Rant.</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonblogs.com/wordpress/index.php/2009/11/30/the-annual-christmas-rant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, Christians wanted everyone to celebrate their holiday. They wanted children to get excited about it, so they allowed the myth of Santa Claus to be created and perpetuated, and nobody seemed to mind if a few non-Christian children got presents from him at Christmas. They wanted to have the day off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Allegory on Belief</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonblogs.com/wordpress/index.php/2009/09/02/an-allegory-on-belief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know that the allegory is an often disparaged form of argument, but for me it is almost essential. The allegory creates a visual picture in the mind of an often ethereal concept, and creates a connection that allows many of us to better recall the details of the argument itself. Iâ€™m all about visuals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drinking the Sarah Palin Kool-Aid</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonblogs.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/09/16/drinking-the-sarah-palin-kool-aid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been astonished at the reactions I&#8217;ve been seeing among certain people to the nomination of Sarah Palin. Honestly, there are still people out there who think that Saddam Hussein engineered the 9/11 attacks, that we need to fight terrorists over there so we don&#8217;t have to fight them over here, and that George [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Prayer. . .</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonblogs.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/06/19/the-power-of-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not too long ago, I passed on a story about a young girl who died because her parents were treating her diabetes with prayer. A different church attempted the same thing with young Ava Worthington, with equal success, and now Ava&#8217;s cousin has had the same results. Fortunately, Oregon, unlike Wisconsin, has laws that hold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is it with people?</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonblogs.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/03/27/what-is-it-with-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Associated Press: WESTON, Wis. — An 11-year-old girl died after her parents prayed for healing rather than seek medical help for a treatable form of diabetes, police said Tuesday. Everest Metro Police Chief Dan Vergin said Madeline Neumann died Sunday. &#8220;She got sicker and sicker until she was dead,&#8221; he said. Vergin said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who the Hell Can Get Into Heaven?</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonblogs.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/03/24/who-the-hell-can-get-into-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s pretty interesting to see how incredibly diverse and self-contradictory these suppositions can be among the various Christian sects. The Internet, of course, gives ideas that otherwise might be almost invisible a worldwide forum, and it’s a curious thing to see that they are all purportedly drawn from the same holy text. Now, I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Disagree with What You Don&#8217;t Understand</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonblogs.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/02/17/you-cant-disagree-with-what-you-dont-understand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a little story I threw together this morning to put you in the right frame of mind. Imagine this: Cousin Angus is visiting his U.S. relatives from Scotland. One day he tells his little American cousin Mary that she&#8217;s very twee. Being young and sensitive, she runs away in tears and tells her mother [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Display Controversies</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonblogs.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/12/24/holiday-display-controversies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Racine, Vernon, CT, Philadelphia, and elsewhere, atheist groups have put up their own displays alongside Christmas themed ones, and it has raised at least as much ire as the legal insistence of menorahs and kwanzaa decorations on public property. For the most part, Christians are quite willing to share the secular part of Christmas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matthew Murray</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonblogs.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/12/16/matthew-murray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent shootings at a youth mission and its associated church by Matthew Murray got a lot of blog attention recently, much of it, of course, speculating wildly about the young man’s motivation. My take is that he was maybe a little mentally unstable, but was certainly involved in a Christian sect (Pentecostals) that says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution Should be Taught!</title>
		<link>http://www.alisonblogs.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/12/12/evolution-should-be-taught/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now in Florida, a campaign is being started to overturn the proposal that evolution be taught in schools more comprehensively than it has been. In Texas, the director of science curriculum was dismissed, so it seems, for advocating evolution by circulating news of a lecture about evolution through e-mail. Both of these states are [...]]]></description>
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