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		<title>It&#8217;s Football, People!</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2012/01/its-football-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, already I&#8217;m sidetracked. But, I just can&#8217;t help myself. About two thousand years ago, Jesus told a story: Two guys walk into a synagogue. One stands up and makes a big deal about praying in public. The other guy doesn&#8217;t. (Luke 18:10-14)  It&#8217;s one of those parables that doesn&#8217;t get talked about all that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever became of sin?</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2011/06/whatever-became-of-sin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1973 Dr. Karl Menninger wrote a little book with the provocative title, Whatever Became of Sin?, in which he questioned the disappearance of right and wrong from psychiatry. It was a good question in 1973, and it&#8217;s a good question today. Coincidentally, after I had begun to write this post, I ran across this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rob Bell&#8217;s confession of faith</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2011/04/rob-bells-confession-of-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is worth sharing, considering all of the hoopla about Rob Bell&#8217;s book Love Wins: Thanks to Scot McKnight for sharing this.]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Luther on the current state of over-sensitivity</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2011/03/martin-luther-on-the-current-state-of-over-sensitivity/</link>
		<comments>http://aldenswan.com/2011/03/martin-luther-on-the-current-state-of-over-sensitivity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The ears of our generation have been made so delicate by the senseless multitude of flatterers that, as soon as we perceive that anything of ours is not approved of, we cry out that we are being bitterly assailed; and when we can repel the truth by no other pretense, we escape by attributing bitterness, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Waiting for Superman</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2010/11/review-waiting-for-superman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aldenswan.com/?p=1431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I went to see Waiting for Superman, the documentary about the failing American public school system. Knowing that the director also did Al Gore&#8217;s movie, I was fully prepared to by irritated by gaps in logic and the misuse of data. However, I have to say that I was quite impressed. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Liberals and Conservatives</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2010/04/understanding-liberals-and-conservatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberal Logic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had my own thoughts about the differences between liberals and conservatives for a few years; and have blogged about it occasionally. It has seemed to me, as I read and listen to debates on various issues, that liberals and conservatives do not speak the same language; they may use many of the same words, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Being a Patriot / Political Ecology</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2010/04/on-being-a-patriot-political-ecology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a post I started writing&#8211;at least in my head&#8211;several years ago, when we had a different administration and different issues to argue about.  However, in spite of the stark differences between Bush and Obama, some things haven&#8217;t changed. For one, we still have a president who is operating on his own private agenda, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Skeptics Collide</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2009/12/the-amazin-randi-debunks-anthropogenic-global-warming/</link>
		<comments>http://aldenswan.com/2009/12/the-amazin-randi-debunks-anthropogenic-global-warming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that skeptics love other skeptics &#8211; up until the point such skeptics becomes skeptical of something that other skeptics accept. Massimo Pigliucci is a skeptic, philosopher (meaning he teaches philosophy), and blogger who occasionally has some interesting things to say, which is why I subscribe to his blog.  Massimo is apparently a fan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polls, Phonies and Politics</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2009/10/polls-phonies-and-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://aldenswan.com/2009/10/polls-phonies-and-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aldenswan.com/?p=912</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Self-identified conservatives outnumber self-identified liberals in all 50 states of the union, according to the Gallup Poll.   At the same time, more Americans nationwide are saying this year that they are conservative than have made that claim in any of the last four years. In 2009, 40% percent of respondents in Gallup surveys that have interviewed more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obamacare: A Lose-Lose Scenario</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2009/09/obamacare-a-lose-lose-scenario/</link>
		<comments>http://aldenswan.com/2009/09/obamacare-a-lose-lose-scenario/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aldenswan.com/?p=847</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I try not to post much about politics, for a number of reasons. For one thing, there are way too many out there already.  I prefer to stick more to philosophical and theological issues &#8211; issues that are around for the long haul, so to speak. But, I am finding the dynamics surrounding the current [...]]]></description>
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