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	<title>Comments on: You Aren&#8217;t a Real Theist Unless You Have the Bling</title>
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	<description>by Hemant Mehta</description>
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		<title>By: Cafeeine</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/06/19/you-arent-a-real-theist-unless-you-have-the-bling/#comment-188432</link>
		<dc:creator>Cafeeine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is more behind the guy with the speedos than personal bling. In the Orthodox church (the Greek is the one that I know of) there is a tradition on Epiphany Day that the priest throws a cross into a body of water to bless it and several people (traditionally boys, but older men can also participate) dive in to retrieve the cross. see &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_Day#Liturgical_practice_in_Eastern_Churches&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_Day&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is more behind the guy with the speedos than personal bling. In the Orthodox church (the Greek is the one that I know of) there is a tradition on Epiphany Day that the priest throws a cross into a body of water to bless it and several people (traditionally boys, but older men can also participate) dive in to retrieve the cross. see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_Day#Liturgical_practice_in_Eastern_Churches" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_Day</a></p>
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		<title>By: Jen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you can&#039;t knock yourself out with your Jesus Jewelry, you don&#039;t love Jesus enough.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you can&#8217;t knock yourself out with your Jesus Jewelry, you don&#8217;t love Jesus enough.</p>
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		<title>By: Obi-Mom Kenobi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Obi-Mom Kenobi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m speechless. Truly speechless. I just don&#039;t know if I&#039;ve ever seen anything that disturbing before. Perhaps they&#039;re actually militant atheists who are covertly trying to gross all the real christians out so much that they lose faith?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m speechless. Truly speechless. I just don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve ever seen anything that disturbing before. Perhaps they&#8217;re actually militant atheists who are covertly trying to gross all the real christians out so much that they lose faith?</p>
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		<title>By: JohnB</title>
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		<dc:creator>JohnB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Speedos, bloated hairy bodies and religious bling the size of boat anchors!  What a perfectly natural combination.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Speedos, bloated hairy bodies and religious bling the size of boat anchors!  What a perfectly natural combination.</p>
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		<title>By: vjack</title>
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		<dc:creator>vjack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is that Joey Buttafuco or just someone who looks like his name should be Joey Buttafuco?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is that Joey Buttafuco or just someone who looks like his name should be Joey Buttafuco?</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Wade</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard Wade</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Somewhere there&#039;s a blurred line between religious jewelry and body armor.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Somewhere there&#8217;s a blurred line between religious jewelry and body armor.</p>
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		<title>By: Darryl</title>
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		<dc:creator>Darryl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The guy with the cross is disturbing, yes, but what&#039;s even more disturbing is that there is some woman somewhere that gets a turn-on when she sees this guy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The guy with the cross is disturbing, yes, but what&#8217;s even more disturbing is that there is some woman somewhere that gets a turn-on when she sees this guy.</p>
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		<title>By: Jason Horton</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jason Horton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh Lordy!  It&#039;s a good thing that these gents have such sturdy necks to support their bling.  Their holy bling.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh Lordy!  It&#8217;s a good thing that these gents have such sturdy necks to support their bling.  Their holy bling.</p>
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