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		<title>The Real Dobson Story &#8230; Maybe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple months ago I blogged about James Dobson&#8217;s final and total departure from the evangelical group he founded, Focus on the Family, and the end of the last job he had with them, as a radio-show host. Back then, the New York Times had suggested this had happened because he wanted to work with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnostic-library.com/ma/2010/03/11/the-real-dobson-story-maybe/</link>
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		<title>Thomas Jefferson &amp; the Enlightenment Removed From Texas Curriculum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, you read that headline correctly. This is not a joke. It&#8217;s deadly serious. The reactionary, Religious Right-led Texas Board of Education has just ordered Thomas Jefferson, one of the most important of the Founding Fathers, from the Texas social-studies curriculum. The Texas Freedom Network has been at the proceedings and reported on this live, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnostic-library.com/ma/2010/03/11/thomas-jefferson-the-enlightenment-removed-from-texas-curriculum/</link>
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		<title>Chief Exorcist Claims Devil Is In Vatican</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A high-ranking Roman Catholic exorcist claims that the Devil is alive and well in the Vatican, and that recent scandals result from it. The (UK) Times reports on this apparent revelation (WebCite cached article):

Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that &#8220;the Devil is at work inside the Vatican&#8221;, according to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnostic-library.com/ma/2010/03/10/chief-exorcist-claims-devil-is-in-vatican/</link>
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		<title>Utah Reverts To The Dark Ages, Women Lose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so perhaps this is not news, in predominantly-fundamentalist thinking, majority-Mormon Utah. But a law was passed there, and signed by the state&#8217;s governor, which effectively pushes the state backward in time, closer to the Dark Ages than it had been previously. The New York Times reports on this development (WebCite cached article):

The origins of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnostic-library.com/ma/2010/03/09/utah-reverts-to-the-dark-ages-women-lose/</link>
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		<title>Christian Taliban In Amarillo, Texas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s often joked that the Religious Right and its various constituent groups are a &#8220;Christian Taliban,&#8221; effectively no different from their Afghani counterparts of the same name, except for 1) Their religion (Christianity instead of Islam); and 2) Their existence as a militia within a lawless country. Well, in Amarillo Texas, that latter difference no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnostic-library.com/ma/2010/03/09/christian-taliban-in-amarillo-texas/</link>
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		<title>R.C. Clerical Scandal Hits The Netherlands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Roman Catholic child-abuse scandal has reached into yet another country &#8230; the Netherlands. The NRC Handelsblad reports on the most recent expansion of what is becoming one of the worst ecclesiastical scandals in history (WebCite cached article):

 Child sex abuse in Dutch Catholic Church revealed
Amid the high-profile child sexual abuse scandals in the United [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnostic-library.com/ma/2010/03/07/r-c-clerical-scandal-hits-the-netherlands/</link>
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		<title>German Catholic Scandal Creeps Closer To Pope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not only has the scandal of abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests struck Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s native Germany, as I blogged already, the most recent revelation from Germany has come even closer to the Pope &#8230; by surfacing in a cathedral choir which had been run by the Pope&#8217;s brother. Reuters reports, via the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnostic-library.com/ma/2010/03/07/german-catholic-scandal-creeps-closer-to-pope/</link>
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		<title>Christians Blame The Victim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a development which &#8212; unfortunately &#8212; I don&#8217;t find surprising in the least, religious leaflets being distributed in Virginia are blaming the victims of rape for the crimes committed against them. The Bristol (VA) Herald Courier reports on this (WebCite cached article):

Blame the victim: Religious leaflet claims ‘ungodly’ dressed women provoke rape
Nineteen-year-old Keshia Canter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnostic-library.com/ma/2010/03/07/christians-blame-the-victim/</link>
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		<title>Another Exposé Of Scientology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gee, it seems only a short time ago that I blogged about the Church of Scientology&#8217;s failed &#8220;investigation&#8221; of the St Petersburg Times, which late last year ran an extensive multi-story expos&#233; of that so-called religion. This weekend, the estimable New York Times ran its own single-story (to date) expos&#233; of Scientology (WebCite cached article):

Defectors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnostic-library.com/ma/2010/03/07/another-expose-of-scientology/</link>
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		<title>Psychic Sued For Fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always wondered why the government never goes after physics for being frauds. It seems pretty obvious that they can&#8217;t do what they say they can do. I guess the government figures people who believe in psychic powers get whatever they deserve, for it. But NPR reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission is going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnostic-library.com/ma/2010/03/05/psychic-sued-for-fraud/</link>
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