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	<title>Comments on: Friendly Atheist Contest #20: Mormon Books</title>
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	<description>by Hemant Mehta</description>
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		<title>By: Friendly Atheist &#187; Friendly Atheist Contest #21: Religious Fonts</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/03/12/friendly-atheist-contest-20-new-sins/#comment-141751</link>
		<dc:creator>Friendly Atheist &#187; Friendly Atheist Contest #21: Religious Fonts</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] week, I ran this contest:  What other &#8220;sins&#8221; will the Catholic Church [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Rest</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/03/12/friendly-atheist-contest-20-new-sins/#comment-140415</link>
		<dc:creator>Rest</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1. Men should always dress modestly. Wearing such things as dresses, fancy hats, and jewerly, is a sign of boisterous pride or, worse, being gay.

2. No more making fun of the Popemobile. It&#039;s not a lack of faith. We finally admit it - God just can&#039;t stop bullets.

3. No creating false religions and claiming you speak for God.

4. Having lustful thoughts about Richard Dawkins. &quot;He&#039;s so cute when he&#039;s pissed off!&quot;

5. Less exercising and more exorcising demons from gullible and mentally ill people.

I&#039;m sure I can think of more, but that&#039;s all for now. :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1. Men should always dress modestly. Wearing such things as dresses, fancy hats, and jewerly, is a sign of boisterous pride or, worse, being gay.</p>
<p>2. No more making fun of the Popemobile. It&#8217;s not a lack of faith. We finally admit it &#8211; God just can&#8217;t stop bullets.</p>
<p>3. No creating false religions and claiming you speak for God.</p>
<p>4. Having lustful thoughts about Richard Dawkins. &#8220;He&#8217;s so cute when he&#8217;s pissed off!&#8221;</p>
<p>5. Less exercising and more exorcising demons from gullible and mentally ill people.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure I can think of more, but that&#8217;s all for now. <img src='http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Old Beezle</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/03/12/friendly-atheist-contest-20-new-sins/#comment-140077</link>
		<dc:creator>Old Beezle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>o	Speaking Latin outside of a mass (this one’s bigger than you think)

o	Skipping the Vatican tour when in Rome (just because the Romans don’t give a damn doesn’t mean you shouldn’t)

o	Using vain euphemisms for blasphemy such as Cheese n’ Rice, Got-Down-Sat-on-a-Bench, or (the Pope’s personal favorite) Jeezy Creezy.

o	Easter egg hunts (too many behind-the-bushes temptations for priests)

o	Diet sacramental wafers (because the body of Christ is certainly not lite)

o	Loud laughter (if it’s good enough for the Mormons…)

o	Jump Rope Rhymes (Cinderella shouldn’t be teaching young girls to kiss a fella’)

o	Google Abuse (thou shalt not google more than 3 times per day)

o	 Rock music (we should make it officially of-the-Devil)

o	Belonging to a quasi-political organization with billion$ in assets whose only real beef with contraception is that it keeps membership numbers down (having run out of real sins, the Catholic Church self-implodes)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>o	Speaking Latin outside of a mass (this one’s bigger than you think)</p>
<p>o	Skipping the Vatican tour when in Rome (just because the Romans don’t give a damn doesn’t mean you shouldn’t)</p>
<p>o	Using vain euphemisms for blasphemy such as Cheese n’ Rice, Got-Down-Sat-on-a-Bench, or (the Pope’s personal favorite) Jeezy Creezy.</p>
<p>o	Easter egg hunts (too many behind-the-bushes temptations for priests)</p>
<p>o	Diet sacramental wafers (because the body of Christ is certainly not lite)</p>
<p>o	Loud laughter (if it’s good enough for the Mormons…)</p>
<p>o	Jump Rope Rhymes (Cinderella shouldn’t be teaching young girls to kiss a fella’)</p>
<p>o	Google Abuse (thou shalt not google more than 3 times per day)</p>
<p>o	 Rock music (we should make it officially of-the-Devil)</p>
<p>o	Belonging to a quasi-political organization with billion$ in assets whose only real beef with contraception is that it keeps membership numbers down (having run out of real sins, the Catholic Church self-implodes)</p>
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		<title>By: Brett</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/03/12/friendly-atheist-contest-20-new-sins/#comment-140059</link>
		<dc:creator>Brett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Emoticons&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;

The depth and breadth of human communication is vast, and is a testament to the infinite glory and wisdom of Our Father.  A multitude of tongues was our punishment for hubris, and simple, derivative and easy-to-understand symbols that underscore emotion, feeling and understanding goes against the teachings of Christ.

For years, we resisted the translation of His Holy Word into the vernacular, and our brothers in sisters in Protestantism now often claim that the King James version of the Bible is God&#039;s inerrant word.  Even now, the congrgants listen to our priests read the Gospels, and do not read along.  Dense, unreadable, and nearly incomprehensible is just how we like the Holy Book, and all communication, for that matter.  Understanding breeds tolerance, and tolerance is not part of God&#039;s Plan.

The emoticon is another symptom of the degradation and increasing secularism of society.  It is beneath God, and it is beneath his faithful.

:)</description>
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<p>The depth and breadth of human communication is vast, and is a testament to the infinite glory and wisdom of Our Father.  A multitude of tongues was our punishment for hubris, and simple, derivative and easy-to-understand symbols that underscore emotion, feeling and understanding goes against the teachings of Christ.</p>
<p>For years, we resisted the translation of His Holy Word into the vernacular, and our brothers in sisters in Protestantism now often claim that the King James version of the Bible is God&#8217;s inerrant word.  Even now, the congrgants listen to our priests read the Gospels, and do not read along.  Dense, unreadable, and nearly incomprehensible is just how we like the Holy Book, and all communication, for that matter.  Understanding breeds tolerance, and tolerance is not part of God&#8217;s Plan.</p>
<p>The emoticon is another symptom of the degradation and increasing secularism of society.  It is beneath God, and it is beneath his faithful.</p>
<p> <img src='http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Siamang</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/03/12/friendly-atheist-contest-20-new-sins/#comment-140025</link>
		<dc:creator>Siamang</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Drinking normal-colored beer on St. Patty&#039;s.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Drinking normal-colored beer on St. Patty&#8217;s.</p>
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		<title>By: Andre</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/03/12/friendly-atheist-contest-20-new-sins/#comment-140019</link>
		<dc:creator>Andre</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh yeah, almost forgot...

Invoking the Spanish Inquisition.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh yeah, almost forgot&#8230;</p>
<p>Invoking the Spanish Inquisition.</p>
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		<title>By: Andre</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/03/12/friendly-atheist-contest-20-new-sins/#comment-140018</link>
		<dc:creator>Andre</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wearing white after Labor Day
Thought experiments about the lack of a god
Failure to file proper income at tithing time</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wearing white after Labor Day<br />
Thought experiments about the lack of a god<br />
Failure to file proper income at tithing time</p>
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		<title>By: Cade</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/03/12/friendly-atheist-contest-20-new-sins/#comment-139931</link>
		<dc:creator>Cade</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mentioning Limbo
&lt;strike&gt;Molesting children&lt;/strike&gt;
Having your testicles crushed or penis cut. (Deuteronomy 23:1)
...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mentioning Limbo<br />
<strike>Molesting children</strike><br />
Having your testicles crushed or penis cut. (Deuteronomy 23:1)<br />
&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/03/12/friendly-atheist-contest-20-new-sins/#comment-139815</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
Reading “I Sold My Sole On eBay”
...
So the Pope is against the buying and selling of secondhand footwear?
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Something looks fishy here ;)</description>
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Reading “I Sold My Sole On eBay”<br />
&#8230;<br />
So the Pope is against the buying and selling of secondhand footwear?
</p></blockquote>
<p>Something looks fishy here <img src='http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Jeff</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>(Dis)honorable mentions were the following (but they were rejected):

- &quot;Bioethical&quot; violations such as pedophilia

- &quot;Morally dubious&quot; experiments with clerical transfer 

- Authority abuse 

- Clerical celibacy</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(Dis)honorable mentions were the following (but they were rejected):</p>
<p>- &#8220;Bioethical&#8221; violations such as pedophilia</p>
<p>- &#8220;Morally dubious&#8221; experiments with clerical transfer </p>
<p>- Authority abuse </p>
<p>- Clerical celibacy</p>
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