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		<title>Seek And You Will Find</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I been debating on Fallen &#38; Flawed again. This time myself and a couple of other skeptics have become engrossed in a long conversation with guest poster Rob, who has shown considerable determination to answer our questions and protests, despite moving house over the past few days. I expect he is a competent juggler too.
My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bridgingschisms.org/2010/03/seek-and-you-will-find/</link>
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		<title>Atheism, Agnosticism, Definitions and Misunderstandings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems some things need repeating. RD Rauser at Christian Post recently demanded evidence for atheism. Despite a number of atheists taking time to explain that it doesn&#8217;t make any sense to provide evidence for something&#8217;s non-existence including some excellent analogies using leprechauns, it seems the believers on the site still didn&#8217;t get it. Disappointingly, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bridgingschisms.org/2010/01/atheism-agnosticism-definitions-and-misunderstandings/</link>
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		<title>Review: The Case For Christ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in January, I agreed a book-swap with US-based Christian blogger, Clark Bunch. I suggested that he read Dan Barker&#8217;s Godless and he recommended Lee Strobel&#8217;s The Case For Christ.
So I&#8217;ve read The Case For Christ, although it&#8217;s taken me quite a while as I was distracted by other books and spent some time reading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bridgingschisms.org/2009/12/review-the-case-for-christ/</link>
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		<title>A Mormon No More</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My guest poster today is a friend of mine, &#8220;S&#8221; &#8211; a student from the San Francisco Bay Area. She was brought up as a Mormon but changed her beliefs in early adulthood. I found her story intriguing partly because Mormonism is unfamiliar to most of us in the UK and partly because of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bridgingschisms.org/2009/12/a-mormon-no-more/</link>
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		<title>Regulation Of Herbal Medicine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the UK there has been a drive to add medical herbalists to the growing list of health practitioners subject to statutory regulation (SR).  In fact this is government legislation we&#8217;re talking about, so the drive has been going on for over ten years. The stated motivation is, as usual, to ensure public safety.
However, many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bridgingschisms.org/2009/11/regulation-of-herbal-medicine/</link>
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		<title>Alpha Course Poll Forces Voters Hands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now it&#8217;s old news that the UK&#8217;s Alpha Course ran a poll asking visitors whether &#8220;God&#8221; exists, by which they presumably mean their god. It&#8217;s also been well reported that atheists got wind of the poll and surfed over in large numbers to vote &#8220;No&#8221;. It&#8217;s not the only Christian Internet campaign to fall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bridgingschisms.org/2009/10/alpha-course-poll-forces-voters-hands/</link>
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		<title>Irrational Beliefs As Blind Spots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to make something clear. I don&#8217;t think that religious believers or superstitious people are stupid. Far from it. In fact, contrary to what believers may feel, most atheists don&#8217;t think that religious people are stupid. They just think that they&#8217;re wrong about one particular thing.
Part of the reason this blog exists is my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bridgingschisms.org/2009/10/irrational-beliefs-as-blind-spots/</link>
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		<title>Category Reorganisation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post to say that I&#8217;ve reorganised my categories so that they indicate the reason for the post or the approach I&#8217;m taking in writing it, rather than the subject matter. Gone are categories like &#8220;pseudo-science&#8221; and &#8220;Mainstream religion&#8221; to be replaced with seven others, including &#8220;Thinking&#8221;, &#8220;Debating&#8221;, &#8220;Reading&#8221;.
For a brief explanation of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bridgingschisms.org/2009/10/category-reorganisation/</link>
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		<title>Free Kareem Amer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never done this sort of thing before, but I&#8217;ve just written to Mohammad Hosni Mubarak &#8211; President of the Arab Republic of Egypt. Ebonmuse of Daylight Atheism recently highlighted his imprisonment for his blogging which was critical of the government. This is what I wrote:
I&#8217;m writing to you in the hope that you will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bridgingschisms.org/2009/10/free-kareem-amer/</link>
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		<title>New &#8220;Conservative&#8221; Translation Of The Bible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently the Bible is not conservative enough for some people.
The folks who brought us Conservapedia &#8211; the alternative online encyclopaedia free from all that pesky liberal bias and concern for what&#8217;s actually true &#8211; have started a new project. It&#8217;s the imaginatively-titled Conservative Bible. Presumably Deutronomy 13 wasn&#8217;t conservative enough for them.
In reaction liberal Christians [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bridgingschisms.org/2009/10/new-conservative-translation-of-the-bible/</link>
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