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		<title>de Botton&#8217;s Atheist Temple</title>
		<link>http://www.martinspribble.com/2012/01/28/de-bottons-atheist-temple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alain De Botton has a new book out, so what better time to be in the news making controversial statements? The negative press he has received over the idea of an &#8220;atheist temple&#8221; is deserved I think, because having a place to reflect quietly on all things secular, the beauty of the universe, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About.com Awards Are Back!</title>
		<link>http://www.martinspribble.com/2012/01/26/about-com-awards-are-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin S Pribble</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year again, when About.com hold the annual Readers&#8217; Choice awards, and this year I&#8217;m hoping to make the top 5 nominations as I did last year. The final result of 4th place was a great testament to the passion of my readers, with my blog receiving 10% of the votes. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atheists Are Less Evolved Than Theists</title>
		<link>http://www.martinspribble.com/2012/01/26/atheists-are-less-evolved-than-theists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin S Pribble</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDIT: I wrote this article a few weeks back, and the article has since been removed. I&#8217;m not sure why it was removed, whether it slipped through their moderation processes, or whether it was in fact a POE article, and was detected. I will post this article anyway, as I have seen similar discussions about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear and Loathing in Indonesia</title>
		<link>http://www.martinspribble.com/2012/01/22/fear-and-loathing-in-indonesia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin S Pribble</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia&#8217;s neighbour Indonesia, home to one of the largest armies in the world, is a fiercely religious place. It officially recognises 6 religions, the largest of which is various forms of Islam making up 87% of the population. The rest is a combination of Protestantism, Catholicism, Hindu, Buddhism and Confucianism. Atheism and agnosticism are not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obsolescence of Ideas</title>
		<link>http://www.martinspribble.com/2012/01/21/obsolescence-of-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin S Pribble</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historically there are certain human inventions have helped catapult humanity forward at an unprecedented rate; from the invention of simple tools, to the advent of steam-power, the harnessing of electricity through the burning of coal, the printing press, and the information super-highway, to name a few examples. Also historically we see many of these ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brainwashing To Believe</title>
		<link>http://www.martinspribble.com/2012/01/17/brainwashing-to-believe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin S Pribble</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday 13 January this year, The Telegraph reported that Islamic terrorist have been brainwashing children into believing that if they strapped a bomb to their chest and detonated it in a public place, that the bomb would only kill Americans. The story said this: &#8220;The largely illiterate boys are fed a diet of anti-Western [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday, Superstitions, Stone Sleepers and Gullability</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin S Pribble</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was Friday the 13th of January 2012. Just like most Fridays, I woke up and went to work, finished work and came home. The only difference between Friday the 13th and Thursday the 12th was one rotation of the earth, and the fact that following Friday is Saturday, as is the convention of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You have a friend request&#8221; &#8211; Outreach Media</title>
		<link>http://www.martinspribble.com/2012/01/11/you-have-a-friend-request-outreach-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin S Pribble</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest poster from Outreach Media is a play on the terminology arising from social media such as FaceBook. It reads &#8220;You have a friend request&#8221; and features an upward pointing hand in the style of a FaceBook &#8220;like&#8221; icon. Just who are they targeting here, and what is their intention? The article accompanying the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No True Christians</title>
		<link>http://www.martinspribble.com/2012/01/07/no-true-christians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin S Pribble</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a post on FaceBook today which grabbed my attention. It went like this:

"I just had a Christian tell me, that the Pope is not a Christian after I told her he covered up child molesters and rapists."

and was followed up with:

"She also told me Hitler wasn't a Christian and every christian that commits crimes is not a true christian."

Those who are familiar with this argument may have seen it many times in many different forms, but it may surprise you to know that this fallacy actually has a name; The No True Scotsman Fallacy. It was first coined by the atheist philosopher Antony Flew in his book Thinking About Thinking. (It's true that Flew in his later life converted to deism, but many claim this was because of his increasing mental infirmity, however this information is unimportant for the sakes of this article.)]]></description>
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		<title>From The Back of Buggery</title>
		<link>http://www.martinspribble.com/2012/01/06/from-the-back-of-buggery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin S Pribble</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Australia we have the colloquial term &#8220;the back of buggery &#8220;, which means &#8220;further away than the middle of nowhere&#8221;. I have just literally returned from such a place, and it was the hardest work I&#8217;ve done in a long time. We awoke on Tuesday morning at 3:30 am, after having little sleep on [...]]]></description>
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