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Here is the official \u201cposter\u201d for tonight\u2019s FAIR open house, which I use by permission.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Interpreter\u2019s sister organization FAIR has opened up an office for the first time \u2014 at 377 East 60 South in American Fork \u2014 and all are invited to an open house for it tonight.\u00a0 (Sorry I\u2019m so late in calling public attention to the event; I\u2019ve been busy and I wasn\u2019t clear for a while whether it was fully public or merely for selected invitees.)\u00a0 I hope to go myself; I\u2019ve been involved with FAIR since just after its founding.\u00a0 I would be happy to meet you there.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m very pleased that FAIR is now in a position to take this step.<\/p>\n

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Elder Kevin W. Pearson of the Seventy gave an important and very welcome speech to the 2018 FairMormon conference. \u00a0Here\u2019s an article about his remarks from the official news site of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:<\/p>\n

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\u201cElder Pearson Says Independent Voices Are Needed to Sustain Faith:\u00a0Mormon leader calls on members to engage on social media\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you would like to actually listen to Elder Pearson\u2019s speech<\/a>, here it is:<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fairmormon\/videos\/2107767335901306\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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And be sure to listen to the question-and-answer portion, where he specifically mentions not only FairMormon but Book of Mormon Central and the Interpreter Foundation as worthy of broad support.<\/p>\n

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Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., whom many appreciate either for his successful leadership of the Human Genome Project or for his authorship of the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0bestseller,\u00a0The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief<\/a><\/i>, has announced that he is stepping down as director of the National Institutes of Health.\u00a0 I heard him, just now, point out that 700,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, and that at least 100,000 of those deaths were entirely avoidable.<\/p>\n

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Get vaccinated!\u00a0 Get your booster!<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s an appalling item from the Christopher Hitchens Memorial \u201cHow Religion Poisons Everything\u201d File<\/em>\u00a9:<\/p>\n

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\u201cHow JustServe\u2019s Guiding Mission to \u2018Love Your Neighbor\u2019 Is Fueling Its Global Reach\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Have you felt left behind as we\u2019ve chronicled the blood-curdlingly evil deeds inspired by religious belief?\u00a0 Have you wished that you, too, might be able to join in with crimes, atrocities, and acts of injustice and oppression that are the signal contributions of religious believers throughout history and around the world?\u00a0 Well, now you too can perform horrific acts that will help to keep the Hitchens File<\/em>\u00a0full for this and future generations.\u00a0 Sharon Eubank suggests some practical and achievable things that you<\/em> can do to support the fiendishly evil cause of theism:<\/p>\n

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\u201c16 Things You Can Do to Be a Humanitarian\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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