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		<title>Defending the Hallucination Theory &#8211; Part 17: Follow Up Investigation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bradley Bowen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[WHERE WE ARE In his Handbook of Christian Apologetics Peter Kreeft raises 14 objections against the Hallucination Theory in an attempt to DISPROVE or REFUTE that skeptical theory.  Kreeft thinks he can prove the resurrection of Jesus by disproving a few skeptical theories about the resurrection of Jesus, such as the Hallucination Theory. Kreeft’s first [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Defending the Hallucination Theory &#8211; Part 16: Adults are Liars and Cheaters</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bradley Bowen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ADULTS ARE DISHONEST In general, studies of lying behavior indicate that college students lie more frequently on average, than the general adult population.  However, based on recent studies with larger sample sizes, the difference in average number of lies per day is fairly small between college students and the general adult population: College students and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Defending the Hallucination Theory &#8211; Part 15: Young Adults are Dishonest</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularoutpost/2021/11/27/defending-the-hallucination-theory-part-15-adults-are-dishonest/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bradley Bowen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2021 06:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[WHERE WE ARE As part of my response to Peter Kreeft’s first three objections against the Hallucination Theory,  I want to point out two major problems with EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY: HUMAN MEMORY IS UNRELIABLE HUMANS ARE DISHONEST In Part 13 of this series, I summarized key points from an excellent article on problems with eyewitness memory [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Defending the Hallucination Theory &#8211; Part 14: Humans are Dishonest</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bradley Bowen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2021 07:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[WHERE WE ARE I am currently examining Peter Kreeft’s third objection against the Hallucination Theory.  His first three objections are all concerned with the TESTIMONY of WITNESSES, namely EYEWITNESSES.  The first three objections by Kreeft thus evoke the centuries-old idea of proving the resurrection of Jesus in a court trial.  If we take that idea [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Defending the Hallucination Theory &#8211; Part 13: Two Problems with Eyewitness Testimony</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bradley Bowen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2021 20:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[WHERE WE ARE I am currently examining Peter Kreeft’s third objection against the Hallucination Theory.  His first three objections are all concerned with the TESTIMONY of WITNESSES, namely EYEWITNESSES.  The first three objections by Kreeft thus evoke the centuries-old idea of proving the resurrection of Jesus in a court trial.  If we take that idea [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Defending the Hallucination Theory &#8211; Part 12: Preliminary Investigation</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularoutpost/2021/10/29/in-defense-of-the-hallucination-theory-part-12-preliminary-investigation/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bradley Bowen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2021 05:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[WHERE WE ARE I am working my way through Peter Kreeft’s 14 objections against the Hallucination Theory, the view that one or more of Jesus’s disciples experienced a hallucination or dream about Jesus after the death of Jesus, and this experience was mistakenly believed to be an ordinary sensory experience of a living and embodied [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Forced Birth Movement Hates Real Religious Liberty – How to Use That Against Them by Making Abortion a Religious Right; Part 2</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularoutpost/2021/10/29/the-forced-birth-movement-hates-real-religious-liberty-how-to-use-that-against-them-by-making-abortion-a-religious-right-part-2/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gregory S. Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2021 00:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(Be sure to read Part 1 before starting this half) The Rape Nonexception Factor This is a good place to further explore the callous indifference of the hard right to rape that has a yet again naïve center-left wondering what is going on. In their twisted logic a woman who is truly Godly and virtuous [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Forced Birth Movement Hates Real Religious Liberty – How to Use That Against Them by Making Abortion a Religious Right; Part 1</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularoutpost/2021/10/28/the-forced-birth-movement-hates-real-religious-liberty-how-to-use-that-against-them-by-making-abortion-a-religious-right-part-1/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gregory S. Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(This being a big subject that has been largely ignored it needs a lot of explanation, the essay is split into two parts. Part 2 will be posted tomorrow) It has not worked. The pro-choice movement opposed by the religious right has been making an enormous mistake. We know that because it is facing disaster. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Discrimination by Neglect: The Chronic News and Opinion Media Bigotry Against Atheists</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularoutpost/2021/10/22/discrimination-by-neglect-the-chronic-news-and-opinion-media-bigotry-against-atheists/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gregory S. Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 12:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Discrimination by Neglect: The Chronic News and Opinion Media Bigotry Against Atheists Theists Get All the Breaks – Really, They Do There is currently, in these United States, a form of casual and pernicious bigotry that continues to be directed against the fastest growing portion of the population. It is the big bigotry that hardly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why This Skeptic is Secular Blogging – It’s a (Fairly) Long Story</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gregory S. Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2021 21:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My religious history that led to yours truly becoming a skeptical intellect doing research and commentary is complex. And rather interesting. Not my father’s side of our (rather dysfunctional) nuclear family. Indiana Hoosier from corn country, a Cold War United Methodist Republican to whom atheism was Godless Bolshevism. Yawn. To his credit when he found [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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