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		<title>The power of Sand Art</title>
		<link>http://ulen.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/the-power-of-sand-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have just marked 20 years from the fall of Berlin Wall. the fall of  Berlin war started a domino effect and in 1989 people in country after country in the Eastern Europe raised against their own national communist regimes and forced changes. Those changes differed from country to country.
A friend of mine pointed out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulen.wordpress.com&blog=946433&post=802&subd=ulen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Jewishness an invented identity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jewish scholar Shlomo Sand has written a book &#8216;The invention of the Jewish people&#8216; in which he challenges, what he calls, the historical myth of the formation of the Jewish people. He argues that there was no massive expulsion or migration of Jews from Palestine during the Roman Hellenistic period, contrary to the common [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulen.wordpress.com&blog=946433&post=795&subd=ulen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of Atheist Fundamentalists: Michael Ruse on New Atheism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A polemic started on Guardian website on whether a schism begins to emerge within the atheist &#8216;movement&#8217; (but some don&#8217;t even see atheism as a movement). The polemic is getting hotter and hotter (by the day, if not the hour). It was started by Michael Ruse with an article &#8220;Dawkins et al bring us into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulen.wordpress.com&blog=946433&post=787&subd=ulen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hans Kung on the Pope&#8217;s latest blunder</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guardian published an article written by Hans Kung, the well known Catholic Theologian about the Pope&#8217;s recent initiative towards the Anglicans. Kung describe the current Pope as &#8220;stubborn and intransigent&#8221;. Some may argue that there is some bad blood between Kung and Ratzinger. However I think that Kung&#8217;s criticism needs to be taken seriously. Here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulen.wordpress.com&blog=946433&post=780&subd=ulen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween Bible Burning Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you thought you heard it all, wait for this: an American Pastor of a Baptist Church is going to burn bibles on this year&#8217;s Halloween! He thinks that the only &#8220;inerrant&#8221; and inspired bible is the King James version and all other versions of the bible are of the devil, or Satanic as he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulen.wordpress.com&blog=946433&post=769&subd=ulen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pope got it mighty wrong again</title>
		<link>http://ulen.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/the-pope-got-it-mighty-wrong-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the Vatican announced that they are going to open the way for the Anglicans to join the Catholic Church and making provision for those that join to keep some of their Anglican traditions. As one that worked for a number of years closely with Catholics, Anglicans, Scottish Episcopalian, etc.. this move from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulen.wordpress.com&blog=946433&post=761&subd=ulen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death penalty verdict inspired by Bible in Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is reported that members of a jury in Texas used the Bible (as an inspiration and a law book, it appears) to sentence a man to his death. What are the dangers in replacing the legislation of the land with the (selective?) rules of a sacred text?

If we use one sacred text should we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulen.wordpress.com&blog=946433&post=754&subd=ulen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The American way: Healthcare Insurance</title>
		<link>http://ulen.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/the-american-way-healthcare-insurance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read an article in the Guardian by Jennifer Abel in which she talks about her &#8216;healthcare insurance plan&#8217;. I thought some of my friends from across the pond might want to comment on this ingenious solution.
&#8220;My healthcare plan is called &#8216;Don&#8217;t get sick&#8217; and it&#8217;s worked so far. But here&#8217;s my emergency back-up plan: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulen.wordpress.com&blog=946433&post=750&subd=ulen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Imagine a world like this</title>
		<link>http://ulen.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/imagine-a-world-like-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am still here but with less time available for blogging. Apologies to those who expected more from me!
Just read Andrew Brown&#8217;s post on his Guardian Blog. Well I didn&#8217;t heed his advise and clicked on the links and I was left with imagining the nightmare world that would result should such a conservative project [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulen.wordpress.com&blog=946433&post=745&subd=ulen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On wrestling with God and Scripture: Quote of the day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Truth of redemptive significance is bound to be counterfactual. God, therefore, is bound to be counterfactual. To be sure, the world is full of people who have no need of redemption. They are the wealthy. They will never have a need to criticize God or the way things are&#8221;. John Hobbins on his blog in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ulen.wordpress.com&blog=946433&post=738&subd=ulen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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