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		<title>Racism Is Not About Feeling</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/aestheism/2017/08/racism-not-feeling/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2017 16:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Plaudits to David Brooks for “How Trump Kills the GOP“, articulating from some position within the political right that white supremacy in the GOP predates the maniac in the White House, that the maniac’s amplification of “white identity politics” is bound to doom the GOP, and that “Each individual Republican is now compelled to embrace [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>This is the GOP&#8217;s Bloody Legacy</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/aestheism/2017/08/gop-legacy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[gop]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[paul ryan]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We sit, together, in a moment of terror, brought about by racist murder and the murderous racism of the man who is in charge of our law enforcement and military. The worst part of this time of terror is that it’s only going to get worse. There is nothing in the past year of presidential [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Moral Bankruptcy of the Boy Scouts</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/aestheism/2017/07/scouts/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2017 22:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Boy Scouts of America is an antiquated cohort of corrupt, close-minded, selfish, vindictive, and paradigmatically un-patriotic fascists, who care nothing for the ideals the organisation historically espoused. Indeed, the BSA leadership seems not even to know what words such as trustworthy and reverent mean. The BSA, it is clear, has cynically wielded such concepts [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Toxic Theology: Learning Doesn&#8217;t Matter</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/aestheism/2017/06/670/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 03:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[LDS Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toxic Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[neo-orthodox]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Another installment of “Toxic Theology”. Some things are just too poisonous to leave alone. By remarkably effective PR, the LDS church still projects into the very mainstream media that it is The Mormon Church. The LDS church’s size contributes to the illusion that the LDS church constitutes all that is Mormon-dom. A very quick glance [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WE Does Not Include YOU</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/aestheism/2017/06/we-does-not-include-you/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2017 03:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LDS Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[LDS Mormon critics who insist that “testimony meeting is not the place to come out” reveal their nervousness over an act that challenged their ownership of the meeting.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Toxic Theology: There Are No Coincidences</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/aestheism/2017/06/toxic-theology-no-coincidences/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2017 23:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Theism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toxic Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coincidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suffering]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In its quest to infuriate by greater and greater degrees, this blog presents Toxic Theology, a new series in which are examined particularly treacherous dogma that too many folks seem to accept as rote. First in the series is: There Are No Coincidences. This notion is a treacherous, toxic religious tenet. Last week, when a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Not Be a Misogynist</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/aestheism/2017/05/633/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2017 05:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authority]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Guys. Here’s my quick ‘Don’t Misogyny’ list. If you have had any interest during the past decade in understanding how you can make your immediate environment safer and in making yourself a less arrogant, less hostile, less misogynist brute, the following will seem elementary. But actual-factual incidents in My Mormon Church today demonstrate that too [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Methodical Retreat from Goodness</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/aestheism/2017/05/626/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2017 04:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Around the time #LittlePrincePumpkin managed to reach one hundred days in office, there was a spate of completely pointless public conversations, each of which began with a variation of “What have we learned about #LittlePrincePumpkin?” Of course, we haven’t learned anything at all. There’s nothing deep or mysterious about this rotten gourd. We all knew [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Forgiveness Is Not Nice</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/aestheism/2017/03/forgiveness-is-not-nice/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bible]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[For outsiders, the nineteenth-century roots of Mormonism were a happy exploitation of the still-young ideals of a still-new nation that still presumed that some folks are created equal. Nathan O. Hatch has written at length about Mormonism in the 1830’s as an example of the ‘democratization of Christianity’ in the young USA. One of the democratic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mormons Do Not Just Believe</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/aestheism/2017/02/mormons-do-not-just-believe/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[belief]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve seen the Broadway musical twice. I’m on record in The Commercial Appeal, a Memphis newspaper, as quite liking it. Nevertheless, I think the play is wrong when it sings that Mormons “just believe”. Some Mormons do, no doubt. But I’m not ready to accept that “just believing” is an essential characteristic of Mormon identity. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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