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    <title>Imagine if you lived in a city where everyone still believed in Santa Claus</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-26T22:58:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>taestell</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Imagine your Harvard-educated mayor asking for Santa's blessing after every public speech."]]></description>
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    <title>How secular family values stack up</title>
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    <dc:creator>taestell</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Secular adults are more likely to understand and accept the science concerning global warming, and to support women's equality and gay rights. One telling fact from the criminology field: Atheists were almost absent from our prison population as of the late 1990s, comprising less than half of 1% of those behind bars, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons statistics. This echoes what the criminology field has documented for more than a century — the unaffiliated and the nonreligious engage in f...]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>taestell</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the Devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the Devil! It’s in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the Devil! Most of mankind has believed in the Devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the Devil."]]></description>
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    <title>A Homeless Man’s Clever Use of Auction Theory</title>
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    <dc:creator>taestell</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What makes this idea so great? Typically the homeless man encounters apathetic pedestrians with little motivation to donate. The framing of charity as a contest changes the game. Not only does the contest attract attention, but it also tempts participants into a game where the inherent strategy is one-upmanship! That bodes well for over-bidding and increased donations."]]></description>
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    <title>GOP Lawmaker Mike Beard Claims God Will Provide Unlimited Natural Resources</title>
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    <title>The rise of atheism in America</title>
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    <title>Republican Horrified to Discover that Christianity is Not the Only Religion</title>
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    <title>Bill Nye Boo'd In Texas For Saying The Moon Reflects The Sun</title>
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    <title>Study Tracks How Conservatives Lost Their Faith in Science</title>
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    <title>Kentucky cuts education funding, keeps tax break for Bible-themed amusement park</title>
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    <dc:creator>taestell</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear's budget includes a 6.4% cut to the state's higher education system, but keeps in place a $43 million tax break for a Bible-themed amusement park and $11 million to improve an interchange giving access to the park.]]></description>
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