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		<title>Special Guest Post by David Orenstein</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Orenstein has written on my blog before. He does me the honor of doing so again, this time on being good without god: Being an atheist requires a moral obligation to show the world that those who may actively choose to be free of religious dogma and faith, can be so while at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re as bad as rapists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes in the tangents and fun I have on this blog, I forget why I started it in the first place: to illustrate how atheists are hated in America. Apparently, we&#8217;re just as bad as rapists. Someone in my local atheist group responded, &#8220;Just re-affirms my personal belief that I&#8217;m included in a group that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Devil Wears Prada gets her just desserts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In light of the Occupy Wall Street movement, I got to thinking about the book The Devil Wears Prada and the movie based on it. As is often the case, the book was much better than the movie. Maybe this is sour grapes, but I say as both a writer and a reader that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hippie Boy: guest post by Ingrid Ricks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Religion, God and Addiction – The Story Behind Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story When I think of my Mormon upbringing, one word comes to mind: Addiction. My mother, an Austrian emigrant who converted to the Mormon religion when she was sixteen, has always been consumed by her Mormon faith —to the point that it almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atheist Homophobe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t typically hear about atheists who are as virulently homophobic as a fellow I met on Facebook. This discussion started when I posted on my wall about an anti-gay bill in Nigeria. Royalist Humanist, an FB user, went on homophobic rants too numerous to repeat here but here are a few examples. &#8220;I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>special guest post by Patricia Duggan: Top 10 celebrity atheists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Including some unexpected atheists. Right now I&#8217;m reading Ingrid Ricks&#8217;s Hippie Boy, her memoirs of growing up in a religious Mormon family. More on that later. 1. Paul Giamatti – Giamatti is known for his outstanding roles as a supporting actor. In a 2006 interview, Giamatti stated that he is an atheist. Although his wife [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarahtrachtenberg.com/special-guest-post-by-patricia-duggan-top-10-celebrity-atheists/</link>
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		<title>And don&#8217;t call me a shoe fetishist!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can you believe the above pic is a cake?! Sex and the City brought it out of the (erm) closet, but I&#8217;m sick to death of hearing the stereotype that women love shoes, specifically expensive ones. OK, I get it: we&#8217;re the fair sex, and looking good is important to us, and we appreciate beauty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarahtrachtenberg.com/and-dont-call-me-a-shoe-fetishist/</link>
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		<title>Working class atheists: bring it on!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just discovered this FB page, Working Class Atheists. I&#8217;m interested in you all since many people accuse atheism of being an elitist, ivory tower egghead enterprise (almost an alliteration there&#8230;), so a working class presence would set people straight. A while back, I wrote that I was interested in hearing from conservative atheists, who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sarahtrachtenberg.com/working-class-atheists-bring-it-on/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s been 10 years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know why we dwell on bad things, but we do. We just do. Maybe because they&#8217;re interesting. Maybe because we want to make sure they never happen again. As much as I&#8217;ve read on the tragedy (I haven&#8217;t written much about it), one thing I always think is: we were stupid. According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>persecution: let&#8217;s not forget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s not forget that the point of Not My God is that in the US, atheists are hated and persecuted. As Stephen Colbert said about distrusted people according to polls, &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t trust a Muslim any more than I could throw him at an atheist.&#8221; Do a search on Google or YouTube for &#8220;hate atheists&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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