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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; religion</title>
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		<title>The Voice of Murder</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/the-voice-of-murder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of the bloody 1965 Indonesian mass murder of suspected communists is not often openly discussed history even in today&#8217;s Indonesia. Given the pervasive silence, estimates vary on the actual number of people killed, but it&#8217;s generally accepted as &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/the-voice-of-murder/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Cardboard Armor Lifestyle</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/the-cardboard-armor-lifestyle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Modern pessimists of the human condition often see the loss of mankind&#8217;s dignity deriving from deviation from traditional religious orders. Their secular opponents see the fall conditioned by a retreat from scientific rationalism. They can have their debate. For my &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/the-cardboard-armor-lifestyle/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>California on the Drina</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/08/california-on-the-drina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed there&#8217;s an ugly and unfortunate current developing in some of the protests against Proposition 8 in California. Namely white gays, blaming blacks for its passage. Even Andrew Sullivan, who has been blaming blacks for a couple &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/08/california-on-the-drina/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More Big Lie Perspective</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/21/more-big-lie-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ross Douthat Even among Christians, there were disparities. While 36% of those belonging to the United Church of Christ, Sen. Barack Obama&#8217;s former denomination, expressed strong beliefs in the paranormal, only 14% of those belonging to the Assemblies of God, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/21/more-big-lie-perspective/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ruining Ramadan in Egypt</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/ruining-ramadan-in-egypt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ramadan always means new soap operas in the Arab world. I learned today it also means not even thinking about masturbation. A small thing to you perhaps, but in a repressive sexual society where the curves of the female figure &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/ruining-ramadan-in-egypt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens on Robert Mugabe</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/christopher-hitchens-on-robert-mugabe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d heard that Hitch addressed the situation in Zimbabwe in his introductory remarks at the Freedom Fest 2008 debate with Dinesh D&#8217;Souza, but I hadn&#8217;t seen the video of it until today. It&#8217;s worth a watch. The subject of the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/christopher-hitchens-on-robert-mugabe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Clarifying the Separation of Church and State</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/21/clarifying-the-separation-of-church-and-state/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/21/clarifying-the-separation-of-church-and-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogs for Victory&#8220;I wanted to make a distinction between separation of Church and state, and separating our faith from our politics. You can embrace the concept of separation of Church and state, but that’s not at all the same thing &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/21/clarifying-the-separation-of-church-and-state/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Barr Now Pro-Wicca?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/bob-barr-now-pro-wicca/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/bob-barr-now-pro-wicca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of us who remember the political scene of the 1990s remember Bob Barr as a hero of rightwing social conservatives. That was before his peculiar (some say opportunistic) transformation into libertarian civil rights crusader. Anyway, I&#8217;d missed this a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/bob-barr-now-pro-wicca/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Retreating Periphery</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/01/a-shrunken-periphery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Mani Babbar) After 9/11 widened Al Qaeda&#8217;s ambitious war against most of the world, Osama bin Laden described his own axis-o-evil as being composed of &#8220;Crusaders, Zionists and Hindus.&#8221; But at some point, without anyone much noticing, that seems &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/01/a-shrunken-periphery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Exit Trinity. Exit Church.</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/31/exit-trinity-exit-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, Mr. Obama has finally quit that ludicrous Chicago institution known as Trinity United Church of Christ. His membership had survived Rev. Wright, but was ultimately done in over the visiting Rev. Michael Pfleger&#8217;s bizarre self-hating white guilt trip, and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/31/exit-trinity-exit-church/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Retreat to the Fringe</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/21/retreat-to-the-fringe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social conservatives and particularly crypto-socialist social conservatives (or &#8220;populists&#8221; if you prefer), are inevitably going to be a minority faction within the GOP. But to their great credit they themselves recognize this. The implications of that self-awareness are dire for &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/21/retreat-to-the-fringe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Huckabee FTW?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/19/huckabee-ftw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exit poll data in South Carolina suggests there&#8217;s a big turnout from &#8220;white evangelical and born-again Christians.&#8221; Uh-oh.]]></description>
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		<title>Huckabee&#8217;s New Constitutional Order</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/19/huckabees-new-constitutional-order/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/19/huckabees-new-constitutional-order/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Add another unsettling dimension to Mike Huckabee&#8217;s rather bizarre views on the Constitution: he apparently subscribes to the judicial pragmatist interpretation of a Living Constitution. Imagine the notion of an open constitution into which you can read any unwritten right, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/19/huckabees-new-constitutional-order/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s Own Constitution</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/gods-own-constitution/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/gods-own-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=2081</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Video clip of Mike Huckabee arguing that &#8220;what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards.&#8221; Hmm. Is that really in accord with anyone&#8217;s notion of Founders intent? I know committed social conservatives who &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/gods-own-constitution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Liberation Theology Takes a Hit</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/liberation-theology-takes-a-hit/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/liberation-theology-takes-a-hit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some splendid news for those of us not delighted by the prospect of a liberation theologist takeover of the Republican Party. Rasmussen is reporting their new South Carolina numbers and Mike Huckabee has lost five points and Fred Thompson &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/liberation-theology-takes-a-hit/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Eyes Opened</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2006/07/25/my-eyes-opened/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2006/07/25/my-eyes-opened/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late in the eighties I was taking a course in American history after 1945. One of my fellow students was a bright, interesting Palestinian. <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2006/07/25/my-eyes-opened/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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