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		<title>Foundation Beyond Belief is Coming to Australia&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With nearly a quarter million dollars raised for secular causes over the past two years, the Foundation Beyond Belief is growing quickly &#8212; and we&#8217;re about to expand to another country altogether: The way our 501(c)(3) status works, we can &#8230; <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/12/foundation-beyond-belief-is-coming-to-australia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/12/foundation-beyond-belief-is-coming-to-australia/</link>
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		<title>Responding to Christian Protestors at a Planned Parenthood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might think Mike Lee, the Religious Antagonist, comes off as a jerk since he&#8217;s disrupting a group of praying Christians&#8230; but then you see who he&#8217;s talking to and that feeling completely evaporates. There&#8217;s something beautiful about the way &#8230; <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/12/responding-to-christian-protestors-at-a-planned-parenthood/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/12/responding-to-christian-protestors-at-a-planned-parenthood/</link>
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		<title>Teddy Roosevelt: &#8216;In God We Trust&#8217; on Money is &#8216;Sacrilege&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the phrase &#8220;In God We Trust&#8221; was going to be placed on the $20 gold coin in 1907, President Teddy Roosevelt was against it (PDF): “My own feeling in the matter is due to my very firm conviction that &#8230; <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/12/teddy-roosevelt-in-god-we-trust-on-money-is-sacrilege/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/12/teddy-roosevelt-in-god-we-trust-on-money-is-sacrilege/</link>
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		<title>I Went to a Rick Santorum Speech and Lived to Blog About It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I arrived a half hour early to the Mabee Center at Oral Roberts University, which turned out to be a good idea. There were already hundreds of people crowded into the lobby waiting for a &#8220;town hall&#8221; sponsored by the ORU College &#8230; <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/12/i-went-to-a-rick-santorum-speech-and-lived-to-blog-about-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/12/i-went-to-a-rick-santorum-speech-and-lived-to-blog-about-it/</link>
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		<title>It Took a While, but She&#8217;s Finally Coming Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by Lisa Buchs. Lisa writes and reads in Boston and works in non-profit development. Her thoughts on writing and life can be found at Marigold. &#8230; I have been very, very slowly coming out of &#8230; <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/11/it-took-a-while-but-shes-finally-coming-out/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/11/it-took-a-while-but-shes-finally-coming-out/</link>
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		<title>Words You Don&#8217;t See in the Media: &#8216;A Self-Proclaimed Christian&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vjack at Atheist Revolution points out the obvious double standard in how the news media talks about atheists versus religion people. For example, atheists tend to be described with adjectives&#8230; &#8220;self-proclaimed,&#8221; &#8220;self-identified,&#8221; &#8220;avowed,&#8221; etc. Can you imagine what would happen &#8230; <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/11/words-you-dont-see-in-the-media-a-self-proclaimed-christian/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/11/words-you-dont-see-in-the-media-a-self-proclaimed-christian/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Traveling This Spring&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For several weeks now &#8212; and for hopefully one more &#8212; I&#8217;m spending a lot of time after school coaching my Speech Team kids, getting them ready for the State tournament (they compete today to see who qualifies). After that, &#8230; <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/11/im-traveling-this-spring/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/11/im-traveling-this-spring/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Hope God Never Becomes a Firefighter&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; because if he ever does become one, we&#8217;re all screwed: (via DarkMatter2525)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/11/lets-hope-god-never-becomes-a-firefighter/</link>
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		<title>Court Says Company Was Right to Fire Anti-Gay Counselor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An federal appeals court in Georgia recently affirmed the lower court&#8217;s dismissal of the case of Marcia Walden, a counselor employed by contract with the Centers for Disease Control, saying she did not have a valid free exercise claim against the &#8230; <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/10/court-says-company-was-right-to-fire-anti-gay-counselor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/10/court-says-company-was-right-to-fire-anti-gay-counselor/</link>
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		<title>When God is Taken Off the Logo&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(In response to this post.)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/10/when-god-is-taken-off-the-logo/</link>
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