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		<title>What This Atheist Learned from the Cain and Abel Myth</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Hughes]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[The story of Cain and Abel speaks more to me now than it ever did when I was a Christian.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Eve Is My Hero: An Atheist&#8217;s Interpretation of The Fall</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Hughes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2019 17:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[//When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.// — Genesis 3:6 //A woman a should learn in quietness and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What A Person Is Worth: An Atheist Reads Genesis&#8217;s Two Creation Stories</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Hughes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2019 22:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Maybe atheists have more in common with the contradiction than you might think.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Simple Reason I Became An Atheist</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Hughes]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Five words.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How To Help the Atheist Group Whose Banners Are Being Vandalized</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2019 07:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is how you can support the group that put them up.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;In No God We Trust&#8221;: Atheist Banners Teach Texas A Lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2019 22:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“In No God We Trust.” Thus saith the banners lining Main Street, where over 8 million tourists a year (not to mention the locals) walk in downtown Fort Worth. Texas. Right smack dab in the soul of Bible Belt country. The banners are part of an initiative to change the motto from “In God We [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>An Atheist Reads Genesis 1:2-3: Saving Our Lives With Stories</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Hughes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2019 07:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Take your candle, and go light your world.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>An Atheist Reads the Bible: Genesis 1:1 (The Beginning)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Hughes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2019 06:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” They’re the first words in the Bible and, for many of us atheists, they are highly offensive. Why do we have to put God there, right at the beginning? It’s really messed up in a disturbing way – as if, before our own experience, before [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I&#8217;m an atheist, but here&#8217;s why I define myself by what I love</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Hughes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2019 02:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When we leave Christianity, it’s easy to hate it. After all, most of the people we know are Christian. They get together once a week. They paint us ex-Christians as terrible people, problematic anomalies, or patronizingly deficient “lost souls.” We might lose our spouses, our kids might become disappointed in us, our parents may be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>An Atheist Gives 3 Bible-Based Reasons Christians Shouldn&#8217;t Think He&#8217;s Going To Hell</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Hughes]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[As an atheist, I have come across atheists with family members who think they are going to hell. I’ve also known Christians who are afraid to question their faith for fear that doing so would make them a hellbound ex-Christian, as well as (to a lesser extent) atheists whose previous fears of going to hell [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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