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		<title>Family Estrangement Versus Honoring Father and Mother</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elijah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Estrangement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Separation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John the Baptist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restoring Families]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Socialists claim the U.S. is experiencing a tipping point in family estrangement that began to accelerate during the pandemic, in about 2021, and is now going full blast. It is being generated mostly by children accusing their parents of abuse, resulting in distancing themselves from their parents, perhaps even to the point of disowning them. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Do Plants Experience Consciousness?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ezekiel 38-39]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Stefano Mancuso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King of Babylon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Lacey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Antichrist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trees Talking]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some plant biologists now claim that due to recent botanical studies, plants have consciousness. Of course, it depends on how you define consciousness. But what they are saying seems to challenge a most traditional fundamental of biology—that an organism must have a central nervous system to experience consciousness. Moreover, these researchers claim that plants may [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Christians Are Not Sexual Prudes as the Media Often Claims</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 02:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brad Wilcox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity and Sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grant Bailey]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  F-U-N-N-Y!!! GOOD GOING AMERICAN CHRISTIAN COUPLES for not being sexual prudes in the bedroom—as the media constantly has made you out to be for what seems forever—at least according to a new study by a respected publication. And this is so while American couples in general, and not just here in the U.S., reportedly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Nicene Creed&#8217;s Birthplace Is Found Buried in a Lake</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecumenical councils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eusebius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Nicene Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicene Creed]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Popular Mechanics magazine reported in an article—dated July 23rd this year and entitled “Archaeologists May Have Found One of the Most Important Churches in Christian History”—the actual place where it is believed that the Catholic Church’s Nicene Council met in the year 325 CE and gave birth to its famous Nicene Creed that has impacted [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Getting Much Worse</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 03:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israeli-Palestinian Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unconditional Love?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Sheeran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macklemore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Abbas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Kraft]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Several things have been happening in which the gap between Israeli supporters and Palestinian supporters in the now nearly 60-year old conflict between them, dating it from the 1967 Six-Day War when Israel took possession of the UN-deemed Occupied Territories. Sheeran Concert Pushes Against “Free Palestine” For example, music rapper Macklemore sounded off onstage at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stephen Hawking Said &#8220;Losers&#8221; Boast about IQ—That&#8217;s Trump</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/kermitzarleyblog/2026/09/jesus-said-trumps-constant-braggadocio-will-make-him-last/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Hawking]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The great, British, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, now deceased, was asked by a New York Times reporter in 2004, “What is your IQ?” Stephen Hawking Didn’t Care About His IQ Hawking replied, “I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.” Donald Trump needs to know that. But I don’t think it would [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Americans Now Favor Palestinians Over Israelis</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/kermitzarleyblog/2026/09/americans-now-favor-palestinians-over-israelis/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 01:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israeli-Palestinian Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIPAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Palestinianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Zionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holocaust]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The U.S. has always favored Israel over the Palestinians regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is in contrast to strong world opinion that has supported Palestinian aspirations to have their own nation. Even though the U.S. has been the main power-broker in trying to resolve this conflict, it has always favored Israel over Palestinians. I call [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Western Nations and Israel Clash over West Bank Settlements</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israeli-Palestinian Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andy Burnham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Miliband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[two-state solution]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today—in an effort to protect the traditional two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—the UK, France, and Canada announced banning sales in their countries of products from Jewish West Bank settlements, which are mostly agricultural. Ever since Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, Jewish settlers in the West Bank have increased their violence against Palestinians. The UN [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Scottie Scheffler Wins the Tour Championship</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Golf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottie Scheffler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victor Hovland]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scottie Scheffler came from three strokes behind Victor Hovland today to win the PGA Tour’s grand finale Tour Championship by three strokes over second place finisher Hovland. Scottie kept hitting beautiful iron shots to notch his second four-under par 66 this weekend while Victor kept lipping out putts on the back nine. Scottie Scheffler Is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trump Should Retake his Old Name Drumpf that Is Like Dump</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kermit Zarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drumpf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lake America]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump is like a dog that tries to urinate on every lamppost to let others dogs know of its presence. For example, in his second term as U.S. president, he is trying to rename buildings or geographical objects with his name or just any name that signifies he renamed it. It’s obviously because [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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