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		<title>A Definition of Conservatism</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2026/06/a-definition-of-conservatism/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The conservative approach is nothing more or less than an attempt to apply the wisdom and experience and the revealed truths of the past to the problems of today.” So said Barry Goldwater.  V.P. Mike Pence uses that definition to argue that President Trump is not conservative.]]></description>
		
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		<title>We Are Not Alone in the Universe</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christ fills all things]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA["The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."  So said Blaise Pascal in 1657 before we knew just how vast the universe really is. Much belief in extraterrestrial life comes from the hope that we aren't alone in the universe. But God fills the universe, so we are never alone.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Monday Miscellany, 6/8/26</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Weaponization Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian energy drinks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump and the Republican Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quantum physics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taking God's name in vain]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dropping the "Anti-Weaponization" fund &#038; other GOP pushbacks.  Forging ahead with an experiment that could destroy the universe.  And Christian energy drinks.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Telling Us What We Want to Hear</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AI sycophancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pastoral counseling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychological validation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A psychotherapist criticizes his profession for its current practice of always "validating" patients by telling them what they want to hear.  This is exactly what AI chatbots are programmed to do, a "sycophancy" that eggs on suicide and delusions.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Limits of War</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[War can take over other countries or defend a country from takeover.  War can subjugate a people and make them comply with the victors' decrees.  But it can't change what is going on inside those people's minds. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Next Stage of Evolution?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AI and evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[next phase of evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Altman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Page]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A common belief in the tech oligarchy is that AI and its related technology will become the next stage of human evolution, in which the biological will be replaced by the digital. This is why they are indifferent to what AI will do to "meat-and-bone" human beings.]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;The Ideological Pursuit of the Machine God&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[AI as religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AI expense]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[At first, AI was developed as a focused tool for specific uses.  But the major AI developers were not content with that.  Instead, they wanted to build something superhuman, a machine that can surpass the capabilities of human beings. That ambition has led to problems.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Monday Miscellany, 6/1/26</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2026/06/monday-miscellany-6-1-26/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[attack on San Diego Islamic Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gasoline prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nihilism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pro-life medical workers' conscience rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trump and life issues]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[What nihilism looks like.  Gasoline prices are up 56% since the war started.  And the Trump administration will enforce medical conscience rights.]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Third of Americans Are Having an &#8220;Existential Crisis&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2026/05/a-third-of-americans-are-having-an-existential-crisis/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 10:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christ]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[existential crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nihilism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scientific rationalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soren Kierkegaard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the leap of faith]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One out of every three Americans (32%) is having an "existential crisis"; that is, struggling with issues of meaning, purpose, and identity.  These can be resolved in one of three ways:  nihilism, rationalism, or faith.]]></description>
		
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		<title>There Is No Scientific Consensus in Physics</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 10:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthropic principle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Mysteries Survey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intelligent design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physics]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[According to our current "social imaginary," science gives certainty. But a survey of 1,600 physicists finds almost no consensus on important scientific issues, including some theories taught as fact in science textbooks.]]></description>
		
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