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Thanks a lot to everyone who voted in the initial phase of About.com\u2019s Atheist\/Agnostic Reader\u2019s Choice Awards<\/a>! \u00a0Unequally Yoked is one of five nominees for Favorite Atheist\/Agnostic Blog of 2011<\/a>. \u00a0Voting is open now through March 21st. and you can vote once per day.<\/p>\n

Spoiler Alert<\/em>: I am totally going to get whupped by PZ Myers\u2019s Pharyngula<\/a>, but I\u2019d quite like to not place last, if possible. \u00a0From my original vote-for-me post<\/a>, the reason I\u2019d like to do well:<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s winner was P.Z. Myers\u2019s Pharyngula<\/a>, which has a very different style and goal than Unequally Yoked. Some atheist blogs speak mainly to people who are already atheists. That\u2019s an incredibly valuable service; it\u2019s a way to promote activism, aggregate news, and provide a safe space for people who may have been thrown out of their families and communities because of their views.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going for something a little different here. This blog is meant to be a place for productive arguments and strange alliances between atheists and theists. In these comment threads, I can make common cause with a gnostic Christian while the atheists and Catholics have to team up to call him a heretic and me a lunatic [in the most respectful possible way]. And all of us are expected to defend the beliefs we hold, not just attack the beliefs we\u2019ve rejected. I wouldn\u2019t want every atheist blog to hew to this model, but I\u2019d be very pleased to have it represented well in the finals<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So vote<\/a> as often or as seldom as you wish. \u00a0I\u2019m going to be slipping in a one-line header to subsequent posts for the rest of the contest, as a hopefully not-too-obtrusive reminder. \u00a0Thanks a lot for any support!<\/p>\n

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P.S. My fellow Patheos blogger Mark Shea of Catholic and Enjoying It!<\/a> is nominated for Best Catholic Blog<\/a>, which may be of interest to some of my crossover readers.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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