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    <title>Gullibility isn&apos;t in the dictionary</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Anti-theism, skepticism, laughing at quackery &amp; fraud]]></description>
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      <description>Ritual murder of children, brutal slaughter of animals ordered by Indian holy men.</description>
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      <description>Wilayatul Hisbah has arrested women, cut off their hair, and paraded them in public humiliation.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Marluddin Jalil reminds us that people like Pat Robertson aren&#39;t unique to Christianity. Thundering into a microphone at a gathering of wives, he made clear where he felt the fault lay: &#8220;The Holy Koran says that if women are good,...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>The fake, bogus outcry about stores selling Christmas trees as holiday trees.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Giving Christmas trees a more inclusive name like holiday trees in an effort to increase the sales of trees to non-Christians gives the professional viewers with alarm another opportunity to manipulate its fan base. But now, thanks to poor Bill...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Prussian Blue : Teenybopper anti-Semitic, racist young girl singing group.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Olsen twin wannabes wearing t-shirts with Hitler smiley faces are beyond my ability to describe.Performing for such groups as the neo-Nazi National Alliance at Holocaust-denial events and festivals entitled Folk the System, the girls execute Sieg Heil salutes while belting...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Katrina: Vengeance  for Israel?</title>
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      <description>Fundagelicals say that New Orleans was devasted by God to punish Americans.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[More kooky Katrina theology: At least one New Orleans-area resident believes God created the storm as punishment because of the recent role the United States played in expelling Jews from Gaza. On Sunday evening, Bridgett Magee of Slidell, La., told...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>God Sent Katriina in Judgement</title>
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      <description>Repent America: New Orleans didn&apos;t.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Certainly took God sometime before getting around to smiting the city. As far as Repent America is concerned, divine judgment has come upon a metropolis that was bent on making its environs open to hell&#8217;s demons. Therefore, God intervened. There...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>You can&apos;t take the devil out of people with pills</title>
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      <description>Monk in Orthodox Church says behavior caused by demons, not mental illness.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Romanian Orthodox monk was still trying to cast out the demons at her funeral. A 23-year-old Orthodox nun, said to be possessed by devils, was allegedly chained to a cross, gagged with a towel and left in a dank...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Hosanna Church pastor arrested.</description>
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      <title>Voodoo culture binds women to lives as prostitutes</title>
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      <description>Belief in hexs and spells force them to sell themselves.</description>
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      <description>Evils of Indian caste system persist</description>
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      <title>Wear human skin for riches</title>
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      <description>Tanzanian witch doctors make charms from the skin of kidnapped people.</description>
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      <dc:subject>Absurd Inurbane Witless</dc:subject>
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      <title>African Child Tortured as Witch in Britain</title>
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      <description>English refugee from Africa tortured as witch by family members.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[An accusation of witchcraft by Ms Kisanga&#39;s eight-year-old son began child B&#39;s ordeal. Patricia May, prosecuting, told the jury child B would have died if the ill-treatment had continued: &#8220;This ill-treatment started when Miss Kisanga&#39;s son one day accused the...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Jesus was a womanizer</title>
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      <description>Marcus Wesson manipulated the Bible to his own ends, enslaved hiw own daughters then murdered them..</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Marcus Wesson, an amazing maniac, chose to send his child brides to the Lord rather than allow them freedom. Siring daughters so he could marry them is one of the more startling manipulations of religion of my lifetime. The tale...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-04-25T19:47:04-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Trinity International University</title>
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      <description>Racial hate mail at a Christian collge.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[African-American and Hispanic students at a tiny fundamentalist college (bigger the name, the smaller the institution) are in hiding because someone - very likely a fellow student - is sending threatening letters. A few white students have fled in fear....]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Looney Moonie Marriages</title>
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      <description>Sexuality and marriage in Rev. Moon&apos;s Unification Church.</description>
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      <dc:date>2005-04-23T18:25:29-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Swami&apos;s slave</title>
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      <description>Swami Jnana Chaitanya alias P.M. Sudhakaran abused Amanda Louis William.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Amanda Louis William&#39;s father gave a charlatan a car, money, a computer and finally Amanda. &#8220;Later, the godman told her father that Amanda was his wife in his earlier life and if he did not allow their reunion, the entire...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>European Union: Protocol of Zion Number 3</title>
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      <description>Church official claims that European unification is an example of the third protocol of the notorious antiSemitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ What is truth said jesting Pilate. Vitaliy Kosovskiy, secretary of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate knows what he wants to believe. Doesn&#39;t matter if it is a lunatic forgery.Having read bits of The Protocols of the...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Believers in gender equality to burn in Hell</title>
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      <description>Islamic clergy condemn equal rights for women.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A government plan to give conservative Chad a new family law banning practices such as beating wives has provoked uproar. &#8220;At Friday prayers, Muslim preachers have taken to saying that President Idriss Deby and his family will burn in hell...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Christian Fundamentalist druggists Because of Beliefs, Some Refuse To Fill Birth Control Prescriptions</description>
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      <title>Teenage vampires with a lust for blood sucking</title>
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      <description>Teenage vampire dominatrix and boyfriend.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The effect of watching too much Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The accused 16-year-old, who described himself as a vampire, said he believed the girl shared his blood-drinking interest and that he was trying to impress her to revive their flagging...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Arabs fear cell phone cameras spread obscenity and do evil by taking photos of women.</description>
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      <description>Donald Lee Flanery pastor of The Family of Christ jailed for abusing minor.</description>
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      <description>Bihar woman blamed for the death of an infant due to her witchcraft was made to carry the dead body and then beaten</description>
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      <description>Ridgefield, Washington man arrested for trying to remove son&apos;s foreskin with kitchen knife.</description>
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      <description>In South Africa children are murdered so their body parts can be used for good luck.</description>
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      <description>Miami Dolphins player Matt Turk hit atheist Miriam Parsa and got away with it.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[What prompted Miami Dolphins punter Matt Turk to strike a woman: His green knit bracelet was engraved with the initials WWJD &#8212; short for What Would Jesus Do? Parsa said she was an atheist and asked whether Jesus would approve...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Jews for Jesus group launches conversion campaign in Washington DC metro area.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#39;m not Jewish but if I were I imagine I would find no group more annyoing. Jews for Jesus, a San Francisco-based group, said it trained more than 600 local volunteers to evangelize the region&#39;s 220,000 Jews as part of...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Archbishop Gilbert Deya claimed to work miracles but may have been selling smuggled babies.</description>
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      <description>Preacher sentenced to jail for murdering Milwaukee boy in prayer service exorcism.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Ray Hemphill murdered eight year-old Terrance Cottrell in trying to cast demons out of the lad. A church elder was sentenced to 2 years in prison Tuesday for abusing an 8-year-old autistic boy who died in what prosecutors called an...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Helge Fossmo, a Pentacostal minister, was found guilty of inciting Sara Svensson, his children&apos;s nanny, to murder wife.</description>
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      <description>Animal rights activists calls for murder of scientists. Hate to think of creationists making a similar call.</description>
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      <description>John Packer, Bishop of Ripon and Leeds begs elderly hospital patient for bequest.</description>
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      <title>Sacrifice a kidney for Jesus</title>
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      <description>Leader of an internet cult today said some members have lied to health authorities so that they could donate their kidneys to Australians in need of a transplant.</description>
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      <description>Afghan women are being threatened for participating in the elections</description>
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      <description>Jews who give away any part of Biblical Israel to non-Jews could be killed under a religious law.</description>
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      <description>Christian diet guru accused of fostering child abuse in her Remnant Fellowship Church.</description>
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      <description>Britain&apos;s lack of virgins leads to failure of America&apos;s Silver Ring Thing movement.</description>
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      <title>Sound of one penis slapping</title>
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      <description>Former nuns, who were found guilty of luring the girls to the temple for Chamlong to molest.</description>
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      <title>Sovereign Christian nation of South Carolina</title>
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      <description>Christian Exodus takes that idea one step further with the succession idea, and with its focus on Biblical issues.</description>
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      <title>Mountain Park Baptist Boarding Academy</title>
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      <description>Christian fundamentalist teachings, strict discipline and corporal punishment</description>
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      <description>Roman Catholics who cast evil liberal votes will suffer in purgatory says Bishop</description>
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      <title>Crucified Christ: no communion for Kerry!</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/absurd_inurbane_witless/crucified_christ_no_comm.php</link>
      <description>American Life League attack Roman Catholic Church prelates who tolerate liberal democratic politicians</description>
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      <title>Bishops vs. Catholic politicians</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/absurd_inurbane_witless/bishops_vs_catholic_poli.php</link>
      <description>Roman Catholic Bishops seek to force American politicians to condemn abortion by denying them holy communion</description>
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      <title>Vote wrong and go to Hell</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/absurd_inurbane_witless/vote_wrong_and_go_to_hell.php</link>
      <description>Greek Bishop warns against voting for United Nations plan for reuniting Cyprus</description>
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      <title>Catholic priest says don&apos;t be like JFK</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/absurd_inurbane_witless/catholic_priest_says_don.php</link>
      <description>Colorado Roman Catholic warns politicians to not be like John F. Kennedy</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Rev. Bill Carmody, a Colorado Catholic priest, offered this touching morning prayer: &#8220;Almighty God, please change and convert the hearts of all the representatives in this House. May they be the antithesis of John Kennedy, may they be women and...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Absurd Inurbane Witless</dc:subject>
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      <title>John Kerry vs. American Catholic Bishops</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/absurd_inurbane_witless/john_kerry_vs_american_c.php</link>
      <description>John Kerry&apos;s struggle with conservative Roman Catholic bishops</description>
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      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/absurd_inurbane_witless/janet_jackson_censored.php</link>
      <description>Janet Jackson censored for saying Jesus on David Letterman&apos;s TV show</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Well, gosharooney neighbor, wasn&#39;t that shocking. Unlike the last time she appeared on CBS, Janet Jackson was bleeped by censors Monday while talking to David Letterman &#8212; for saying &#39;&#39;Jesus,&#39;&#39; reports The Associated Press.Janet bleeped for saying `Jesus&#39;...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Crazy self-castrations</title>
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      <description>Superstitous people, religious maniacs who castrate themselves</description>
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      <description>Texas woman says God told her to murder her sons by stoning them</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Tyler-AP &#8212; A woman accused of bludgeoning two of her sons to death and badly injuring a third son begins today in Texas. &#8230; Police say she called nine-one-one just after midnight May tenth and told a dispatcher &#8212; quote...]]></content:encoded>
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      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/absurd_inurbane_witless/silentlambs_jehovahs_wi.php</link>
      <description>Jehovah&apos;s Witnesses cult of sexually abusing members</description>
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      <title>Feroze Golwalla&apos;s Baruch Ha Shem</title>
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      <description>Feroze Golwalla&apos;s Parsee Ministry Team - also known as Baruch Ha Shem</description>
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      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/absurd_inurbane_witless/mormon_family_battle_over.php</link>
      <description>Mormon family fights over ownership of consecrated land</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A few extracts from a weird Mormon family war over property. Enoch says another brother, Joseph, told him that he had revelatory dreams that people chased Enoch away so Joseph could live on his land and perhaps build a temple...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Financial collapse of  American Hare Krishna movement</description>
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      <description>Biographies of Roman Catholic virgin saints reviewed</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[An entertainingly unsympathetic look at Roman Catholic cult of virgin saints. Holy Anorexia indeed. Th&eacute;r&egrave;se [of Lisieux]also died of TB, in 1897, just short of her 25th birthday. Her illness was excruciating and prolonged. But popular piety preserved the romantic...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Book mentioning evolutionary theory and horses inspires call from its removal from public library</description>
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      <description>Mel Gibson&apos;s father is anti-semite, denies Jewish holocaust</description>
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      <description>California prophet who claimed scriptural support for polygamous child abuse</description>
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      <description>Tenneessee prude, puritan files class action lawsuit claiming Janet Jackson&apos;s breast caused her harm</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Like, I imagine most of you, I didn&#39;t give a damn (though some of you may have regretted the pasty). The aftermath does give us a wonderful instance of American puritanical hysteria. It took almost three days, but the first...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Clerical Celibacy for Roman Catholic priests: many would prefer it to be optional</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Enforced celibacy is evil hogwash. Unsurprisingly many American priests would like for optional clerical celibacy to at least be talked about. Most of the Catholic laity says they&#39;d accept married priests. Perhaps if mandatory celibacy diminishes the Catholic Church is...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Texas Christians act as the Morality Police</description>
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      <description>Spain punishes author of book on wife beating</description>
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      <dc:subject>Absurd Inurbane Witless</dc:subject>
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      <dc:subject>Absurd Inurbane Witless</dc:subject>
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      <dc:subject>Absurd Inurbane Witless</dc:subject>
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      <dc:subject>Absurd Inurbane Witless</dc:subject>
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      <description>Boy with gay mother harassed by Lafayette Parish school board</description>
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      <description>Televangelists fraud Robert Tilton&apos;s Word of Faith was a scam, Christians are fools</description>
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      <description>Asahara Shoko allowed his followers to drink his semen and blood</description>
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      <title>Oral sex &apos;cancer cure&apos; hurts women</title>
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      <description>Fellatio is cure for breast cancer rumor that appeared on a web page similar to CNN&apos;s persists</description>
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      <description>Georgia cult leader claims to be from another galaxy.</description>
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      <description>Weakling vampire fans who become murderers</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Some fan boys get carried away.The chilling murder of Thomas McKendrick in a small Scottish village was brutal and ritualistic. He was sacrificed to satisfy a lust for blood and an obsession with the occult. Yet his killer&#39;s fixation with...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Absurd Inurbane Witless</dc:subject>
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      <title>Nobel Peace Prize insults Islam</title>
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      <description>Ilamic theology students at  Iran&apos;s Qom Shirin Ebadi Nobel Prize insults Islam</description>
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      <dc:subject>Absurd Inurbane Witless</dc:subject>
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      <description>Allan Menzies’  obsession with the occult,  ritualistic killing of Thomas McKendrick</description>
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      <description>Allen Harrod, sex abusing, self-proclaimed prophet.</description>
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      <description>Absurb Christian fundamentalists look on Palestinians as blocking the prophecies in the Book of Revelation.</description>
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      <description>Pop singer explains her vision of the creator and maintainer of the uniiverse.</description>
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