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            <title>the truth about cain and abel</title>
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            <author>nobody@vox.com(Nick)</author>
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       Both men, you’ll remember, offer sacrifices to God.  Cain’s is an offering of crops, whereas Abel offers a blood sacrifice.  God likes Abel’s offering but rejects Cain’s.  Cain, angry, kills Abel.  Taken as a simple historical narrative, the st...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>lunchbreak musings: seekers&#39; solidarity</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:40:04 -0700</pubDate>         
            
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      All this online pugilism between Christians of different stripes!  All these forum fencing-matches about free will and predestination and law and grace and evolution and intelligent design and miracles!  All these arguments that might never have...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:32:45 -0700</pubDate>         
            
            <description>       Fellow Nick Drake fan Scott Small over on Not In Me has been so kind (or imprudent) as to let me post some reflections on heaven and suburbia on his upliftingly lovely blog There&#39;s Treasure Everywhere.  If you&#39;re feeling whimsical please do pop ...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>laws of nature pt 2: those naïve pagans!</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:03:14 -0700</pubDate>         
            
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      I was mad about mythology as a teenager, and considered myself a sophisticated pagan after the model of Murry Hope, all of whose books I’d read and mildly understood.  If Science had no way to talk about the cosmic intelligence I witnessed in th...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>Happy Parent #1 Day</title>
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            <author>nobody@vox.com(Judy)</author>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:51:43 -0700</pubDate>         
            
            <description>     Along with being German and Dutch, I&#39;m part political-activist.  Below is something I received from the Family Research Council that ought be of concern to parents/families everywhere.  What happens in California often filters down the line to oth...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>News to Note, June 14, 2008  - Answers in Genesis</title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:39:09 -0700</pubDate>         
            
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:05:07 -0700</pubDate>         
            
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      When you are a teenager, your personality seems like something separate from you.  You are aware that you are a person who experiences things, but you are also aware that the person you are is one of the things you experience - the most immediat...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <author>nobody@vox.com(Kathyjoyful2day)</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:21:30 -0700</pubDate>         
            
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     Faith - I often took it for granted! Is that true of you too?  It certainly is important to move in faith nowadays ~  with all that is happening in this life.  Without faith we cannot please God. Lately I understand that more than ever!  Keep the...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>Brannon Howse is a liar?</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:29:36 -0700</pubDate>         
            
            <description>     have happen at that store in Collierville and now Brannon is receiving e-mails that he is a liar.  So, Brannon&#39;s guest on today&#39;s radio program was Gwen, the mom of three that saw and heard everything that happen to Brannon Howse and his son insid...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>toothless Q&amp;A - faith and reason</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:57:16 -0700</pubDate>         
            
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      Question: Isn’t it always irrational to accept a claim ‘on faith,’ rather than on the basis of evidence?   Answer: Sometimes exercising provisional faith is the most rational way to test a claim.    (All faith is provisional at first, by the way...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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