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			<title><![CDATA[ Burial rites ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ My first brush with Greek tragedy was &quot;Antigone&quot;, the second in Aeshylus' Oedipus cycle; my current favorite is &quot;Ajax&quot;, a Sophoclean drama about the dishonor and death of the only rival to Achilles claim as the greatest Greek warrior.  Today it occured to me that a central conflict in both is that over the rite to do honor to a dead sibling by burying their body.  Both Antigone and Teucer risk execution by swearing that they'll bury the bodies of their dead brothers rather... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:48:58 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Excellent Essay on Suffering and God ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ From Walter Kaufmann, The Faith of a Heretic (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1961), pp. 149-52, 168-69, 170-72, 177-78, 180-81. Copyright 1960, 1961 by Walter Kaufmann. Reprinted by permission of David Kaufmann, trustee of the Estate of Walter Kaufmann.<br>
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NO OTHER PROBLEM OF THEOLOGY or the philosophy of religion has excited so sustained and wide an interest as the problem of suffering. In spite of that, people keep saying, as if it were a well-known truth, that you... ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Dissident Heart)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:53:43 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Fasting ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Below is the statement produced by the <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.climateemergency.org/joomla/index.php" target="top"><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline"><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>US Climate Emergency Council</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--></a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> as their call to a <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:55:46 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ What is belief? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Honestly, I'm not sure where this thread would fit best, but since belief is something we talk a lot about in this sub-forum, I'm putting it here to keep it in like company.<br>
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The inspiration for this thread is a particular set of comments that I received in another thread when I asked what people believed about science.  Garicker's response is probably the easiest way to sum up what a lot of people said explicitly or implied in essence.  He wrote, &quot;I don't think of my opinion of... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:10:16 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Moral Equivalency and War ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Below is a letter to the New York Times editors by historian, Howard Zinn. In the letter he argues for the moral equivalency of what he describes as &quot;inevitable&quot; and &quot;intentional&quot; casualties of war; note the distinction from the usual &quot;deliberate&quot; versus &quot;accidental&quot; argument.<br>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:05:51 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Politics of God ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ More and more, the most interesting articles I've run across concerning the modern clashes of religion and politics have come from the magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of the New York Times.  Today I happened to pick up an abandoned copy in a coffee shop, and was curious enough to read the following article.<br>
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<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/magazine/19Religion-t.html">The Politics of God</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br>
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I'm tossing your... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:33:31 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Least favorite philosophers ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ As a counterpoint to my &quot;Favorite philosophers&quot; thread, I thought I'd ask a potential more interesting, or at least more contentious, question: who are your least favorite philosophers and why? ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:29:23 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Favorite philosophers ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Despite the fact that there are three prongs to this forum, most of the threads tend to dwell on the polemics of religious belief and non-belief.  So I thought I'd try to instigate a little philsophical discussion by asking if you regulars have any favorite philosopher or philosophical works.  And if so, what about them draws your admiration? ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:02:12 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Richard Rorty ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Until today it had flown entirely beneath my radar that Richard Rorty died last month.  Granted, my familiarity with Rorty was, itself, a recent thing -- you may remember that I suggested his &quot;Philosophy and Social Hope&quot; as a Quarterly read about a year back.  And while I don't always agree with the conclusions that Rorty draws in reference to his view of knowledge, I do think it notable that one of the most visible and arguably the greatest of modern American philosophers has... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:00:05 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dangerous Ideas ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/469317,CST-CONT-danger15.article" target="top"><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline"><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>In Defense of Dangerous Ideas</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--></a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> by Stephen Pinker<br>
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Do women, on average, have a different profile of aptitudes and emotions than men? <br>
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Were the events in the Bible... ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Dissident Heart)</author>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Why do people believe that Jesus was a real person? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Why, despite the lack of evidence, do the vast majority of people believe that Jesus was a historical person? <br>
<br>
Is it purely a faith-based belief? Is it lack of knowledge of the topic? <br>
<br>
I truly do not get it. For every other figure in history we demand evidence of their life before we accept them as more than myth; yet Jesus seems to have gotten a free pass in this regard why?<br>
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Historians did not assume that the Roman Pilate was a historical person because he was... ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Frank 013)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:35:03 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Convict sues God ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>A Romanian convict doing time for murder tried to sue God for breaking the contract they allegedly concluded at his baptism and not doing enough to protect him from Satan. The public prosecutor turned down the case -- because God does not have a home address.<br>
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...the prison chaplain will be given the difficult task of explaining to the man &quot;that God does not act without our will and that people have the... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:35:09 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Jesus ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ the <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.ntgateway.com/Jesus/index.htm" target="top"><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline"><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>New Testament Gateway: Historical Jesus</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--></a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> link is an excellent starting point for identifying the leading scholars in the field. Make sure to examine the <!--EZCODE BOLD... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:14:32 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Royal Ballet's Swan Lake ]]></title>
			<link>http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/1258/t/Royal-Ballet-s-Swan-Lake.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I saw the Royal Ballet perform <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Swan Lake</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> last night, and it was out of this world.  I see a lot of live entertainment throughout the year, mostly theater, and often very much appreciate all the effort and craft involved.  But every once in a while, as an audience member, you recognize that you are witnessing something truly extraordinary.  For me, Brian Dennehy as Willy Loman; Audra McDonald in <!--EZCODE ITALIC... ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (irishrosem)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:21:46 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Video thread of Bodhitharta! ]]></title>
			<link>http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/1261/t/The-Video-thread-of-Bodhitharta-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ As promised I have started the process of video taping, Enjoy! <br>
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God willing, some of you will realize God Is Real! <br>
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<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGpwBSfxZ4">www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGpwBSfxZ4</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Asana Bodhitharta)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:36:24 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 1408 ]]></title>
			<link>http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/1260/t/1408.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I was just wondering if any of you had seen the new John Cusack movie &quot;1408&quot;, and if so, what you thought of its handling of atheism as a theme.  Any comments? ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (MadArchitect)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:31:17 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Creationism vs. Evolution ]]></title>
			<link>http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/1263/t/Creationism-vs-Evolution.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ If there ever was a hot topic, this is it!  Just mention creationism and evolution in the same breath to a group of people for general conversation and you've started World War III.<br>
     It is beyond me to believe that a God would pick out a patch of ground on this planet and place two people in it to start mankind.  I don't argue with the creationists because they are adamant in interpreting the Bible literally.  To them, the Bible is the Word of God.  However, that leaves me questioning... ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (EmersonBashier)</author>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:47:24 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Apparently heresy is still a crime ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Have you guys seen this Yahoo article?<br>
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It is a complaint that is going to court over the Da Vinci Code movie.<br>
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Here is an excerpt from the article <br>
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<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Earlier this year, a complaint against the film was filed by a group of clergy near the Italian village of Civitavecchia, where the state prosecutor's office said it would open a criminal investigation into the film. The complaint says the film... ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Frank 013)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:06:27 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Church ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Recently, the landlady of the property where we have our gym died.  Our lease was until 2011, and the landlady honored that.  She willed all her property to the church, and they proceeded to find a way to sell the property with minimal loss.  They hired lawyers who looked into the history of our lease and managed to find some loopholes that stated our neglect of the lease, which was not intentional on our part.  <br>
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Some of the veterans here know my name, and I come back from time to... ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Interbane)</author>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:03:21 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Atheist, agnostic, infidel, skeptic - Where do you fit in? ]]></title>
			<link>http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/1267/t/Atheist-agnostic-infidel-skeptic-Where-do-you-fit-in-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I realized that in my introduction I stated that I definitely was not an atheist.  However, I realized that I was not absolutely certain of that. I was curious if there was a difference between atheist and agnostic.  So, I decided to look it up on dictionary.com and this is what I found:<br>
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atheist  [ey-thee-ist] <br>
     -noun a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings.  <br>... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:53:48 GMT</pubDate>
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