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		<title>The Business of Religion and Liberty Rather than Tolerance</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guest Contributor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 20:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why the Religious Freedom and Business Foundation Fails to Promote Freedom and Undermines the Foundation of Businesses by Ed Buckner Along with other atheists, I have been involved in efforts by the national Religious Freedom Center — “a nonpartisan national initiative focused on educating the public about the religious liberty principles of the First Amendment” — [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Yasir Qadhi&#8217;s Elitist Ruse to Conceal the Obscure Origins of the Qur&#8217;an</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Saif Ansari]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2020 23:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In college a friend at the time once told me that she had been invited to Islam by a mutual friend of ours, a religious man who sincerely believed that Islam was the way. She expressed various reservations and declined. In response, our mutual friend told her that to the extent to which she had [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Despite &#8220;Pro-Life&#8221; Claims, Stem Cell Therapy Has Very Real Benefits and Should Be Accessible</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Harveston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 19:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Stem cell research has been the subject of discussion and heated debate for many years. Much of the social and political drama surrounding stem cells is the result of misunderstanding what stem cells are, where they come from, and what they can do for those with injuries and diseases. Working from a common set of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Religion Can Impact Mental Health in Good and Bad Ways</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularspectrum/2020/01/how-religion-can-impact-mental-health-in-good-and-bad-ways/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Harveston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many people on Earth think a belief in a higher power is essential if we’re to become moral people. This position is held by decisive majorities in dozens of countries. It’s a vital example of how religion can cause us to offload our sense of morality and self. When it comes to mental health, there are signs [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Re-imagining our Common Bond with the Cosmos</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Carl Chudy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Coalescing around Climate Change A few years ago, during the time of the United Nations Summit on Global Climate Change in Paris, our dialogue team traveled to the chilly, damp air of Coatbridge, Scotland, not far from Edinburgh. There we gathered at Conforti Institute of the Xaverian Missionaries, our dialogue center which hosts and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>On Cognitive Dissonance and the Thought Patterns Behind Science Denial</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularspectrum/2019/09/on-cognitive-dissonance-and-the-thought-patterns-behind-science-denial/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Harveston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Did you know that the moon is hollow? In reality, it isn’t a natural satellite of the earth, but an artificially-created alien space station where critters from galaxies far, far away observe our behavior as if we were their ant farm. Of course, this hypothesis sounds radical, and ample scientific evidence to the contrary exists. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Understanding Cultures of Unbelief for Religious</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularspectrum/2019/07/understanding-cultures-of-unbelief-for-religious/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. Carl Chudy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2019 14:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  In the last part of May 2019, an unlikely gathering took place at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, sponsored by the Pontifical Commission for Culture at the Vatican, entitled Cultures of Unbelief. This unique gathering of religious and nonreligious comes about fifty years after the first conference held at the Vatican, March 27, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trump Admin&#8217;s Prioritization of Religion Over Health Care Access Will Leave People Without Care</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularspectrum/2019/06/trump-admins-prioritization-of-religion-over-health-care-access-will-leave-people-without-care/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Harveston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Trump Administration seems bent on prioritizing religious “freedoms” over human needs — including medical needs. On one hand, they’ve essentially declared themselves enemies of public health systems. On the other, they seem to want to bring the entire “free market” of the health care industry under Christianity’s banner of moral rule. By that I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Do We Question Vegetarianism When It&#8217;s a Personal Choice but Not When It&#8217;s Religiously-Motivated?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularspectrum/2019/04/why-do-we-question-vegetarianism-when-its-a-personal-choice-but-not-when-its-religiously-motivated/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Harveston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compassionate humanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical thinking]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[People sure do love their double standards. You probably know how true this is if you’ve ever been judged for your dietary choices. Consider the range of responses you might receive if you “out yourself” as a vegan or vegetarian. No matter how well-researched and reasoned your decision might be, somebody is going to decide [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;At-Will Employment&#8221; — Just Another Way Employers Use Religion and Biases Against Workers</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularspectrum/2019/02/at-will-employment-just-another-way-employers-use-religion-and-bias-against-workers/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Harveston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Employee benefits, workplace rights and even the very definition of employment itself have all changed a lot over the last few decades. One thing that hasn’t changed, however, is the fact that at-will employment is the rule rather than the exception in the United States. There is only one state in the U.S. that doesn’t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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