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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>The Christian Legal Society defends homophobia, hate and intolerance for American fundamentalists.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[In that spirit, the Christian Legal Society, an association of judges and lawyers, has formed a national group to challenge tolerance policies in federal court. Several nonprofit law firms &#8212; backed by major ministries such as Focus on the Family...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Breed for Your Religion</title>
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      <description>Indian Hindu leader calls for increase in birthrate to forestall imbalance with India&apos;s Muslim population.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Just imagine if we had a similar baby battle here in the US. The Neopagans, Baptists, Mormons and the like could slug it out womb against womb.Sudarshan, who heads the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent of the Bharatiya...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Hindus Protest Christmas Stamp</title>
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      <description>Vaishnava Hindu man and wife shown worshipping baby Jesus Christ in nativity scene.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[British Hindus are in a tizzy about a new UK Christmas stamp. The image is from a 17th century Hindu painting. &#8220;Even if we accept that an artist in 1620 AD took the artistic license to portray practising Hindus worshipping...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Evangelical Alliance urges its membership Christians to protest against the proposed Racial and Religious Hatred legislation.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Alliances are urging their members to take time off work this coming week as part of the protest, and calling for huge numbers of people to gather outside the Houses of Parliament on 11 October, the date that the...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Asperges Me (Dry Sin)</title>
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      <description>Cultural Olympiad art exhibition curator on trial for painting insulting the Orthodox Church</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Christos Joachimides curator of a Greek contemporary art exhibition is on trial. A politician was angered by a painting. &#8230; George Karatzaferis protested that Belgian artist Thierry de Cordier&#39;s &#8220;Asperges Me (Dry Sin)&#8221; painting was &#8220;the most obscene, immoral, shameless...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Captain MeLinda Morton</title>
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      <description>Lutheran minister who reported abuse of other students by Christian cadets fired.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Air Force chaplain who went public with the evangelical Christian treatment of non-Christian cadets has been removed from her post.Another victory for born-again bigotry. &#8220;They fired me,&#8221; said Captain MeLinda Morton, a Lutheran minister who was removed as executive...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-05-14T13:59:04-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Miguel De La Torre &amp; Sponge Bob Squarepants]]></title>
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      <description>Religion professor leaves Hope College for disagreeing with Focus on the Family</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hope College doesn&#39;t like criticism of conservative wackos: In an editorial in the Holland Sentinel newspaper, De La Torre criticized James Dobson, the founder of the group &#8220;Focus on the Family,&#8221; for saying that cartoon character Sponge Bob Squarepants was...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Cadets tell Jews they are going to Hell</title>
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      <description>Evangelicals anti-Semites at Air Force Academy harass Jews, those of other faiths and atheists.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[More than 90 percent of the cadets identify themselves as Christian. A cadet survey in 2003 found that half had heard religious slurs and jokes, and that many non-Christians believed Christians get special treatment. &#8220;There were people walking up to...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Pope Benedict XVI: homophobic, anti-feminist, anti-sanity</title>
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      <description>Pope Benedict XVI hates gay men and women, condoms, women priests and the European Enlightenment. </description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[It is like Frank Netti taking over from Al Capone. Joe &#8220;The Rat&#8221; Ratzinger has been called God&#39;s Rottweiler, the Panzer Cardinal, as well as the Enforcer. Intolerant? The British nun Lavinia Byrne left her religious order after refusing orders...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Hoasca tea ban</title>
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      <description>Members of the O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal face persecution in the US.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Religious freedom in the land of liberty, at least the era of George Bush: An appeals court ruled the sacramental use of the tea cannot be banned because of a 1993 religious freedom law. The hoasca tea which comes from...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Coca-Cola + Jesus = blasphemy conviction</title>
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      <description>Russian museum director convicted for blasphemy.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A Moscow court yesterday convicted the director of the Sakharov Museum of inciting religious hatred by organizing a controversial exhibit condemned by the Russian Orthodox Church. &#8230; The 2003 exhibit &#8212; titled Caution, Religion &#8212; featured works by about 40...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>On several occasions he asked Mormons about their underwear</title>
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      <description>Christian Fundamentalists who abuse Mormon missionaries.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Evangelical Christian has been told to leave Mormons alone. The judge had also been told that Mr Price harangued Mormons in the street and chased them into supermarkets. On one occasion he &#8220;accompanied&#8221; embarrassed missionaries on a 30-minute Tube journey,...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Of Fatwas And Beauty Queens</title>
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      <description>Nigeria&apos;s Miss World beauty contest erupts into violence and hate.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Then, a well-meaning 21-year-old Nigerian journalist named Isioma Daniel, working for a Lagos newspaper, wrote a single, seemingly innocent sentence that infuriated the extremist mullahs in the northern part of the country, who deemed it blasphemy. What did Daniel say...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Nisuah hamayim</title>
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      <description>Rabbis call for end of secular government of Israel and establish of Israeli monarch and king.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[You have to admit there&#39;s no testament like the Old Testment. Curses, blood, fornication, God&#39;s prophets being cruel and petty. Some nostalic Jewish activists are trying to restablish Israel as a monarchy with a king. With shofars blasting in the...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Shouldn&apos;t Muslim pupils pay attention in class?</title>
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      <description>Christian teacher has gone into hiding in the northern Nigerian city of Kano</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The book proved to be the Koran. For fear of riots the police remain on watch. The teacher is in hiding and her name has not be released. Was the girl that pious or just using the book to cover...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Religious Intolerance</dc:subject>
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      <title>Yoga: an aberration</title>
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      <description>Muslim clerics say the Hindu yoga violates Islamic law.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[If Ali Gomoa could see your average yoga fan he&#39;d probably just say it makes you soft in the head. The edict, published in the pan-Arab daily newspaper Al-Hayat and obtained Sunday by the Associated Press, called the practice of...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Sweets injur spiritual health</title>
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      <description>Russian cult members attacked for giving away free food.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Inter-religious Council of Russia is after Russia&#8217;s Hare Krishna&#39;s for giving out veggie snacks to people on the streets. The food, since it is dedicated to &#8220;pagan gods&#8221;, could &#8220;harm the spiritual health of Christians, Muslims, and Jews.&#8221; &#8230; He...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Unitarian Universalists don&apos;t love god</title>
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      <description>State of Texas persecutes Unitarian Universalists and demands they pay taxes.</description>
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      <title>Fundamentalists are everywhere</title>
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      <description>Fundamentalists battle what they see as modernity&apos;s evils - they themselves are a moden evil.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Edifying Spectacle moved to a more robust server and had three IP changes that had to spread through the domain name servers but we&#39;re back. If you made a comment in the last two days they were lost. Every religion...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Baptist vs. Baptist</title>
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      <description>Intolerant Southern Baptist Convention directors attack kindly Baptist World Alliance policies</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Southern Baptist Convention, America&#39;s largest body of born again pests, is threatening to leave the Baptist World Alliance. The BWA&#39;s theological crimes include: ecumenicalism, support of female ordination, having Desmond Tute speak and simply daring to allow members to express...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>The Passion &amp; anti-Semitism</title>
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      <description>Survey examines the effect of The Passion of the Christ on American anti-semitism</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Pew Research Center asked people &#8220;Do you feel the Jews were responsible for Christ&#39;s death or not?&#8221; trying to gauge what effect Mel Gibson&#39;s The Passion of the Christ may have on American anti-Semitism. In the March 17 to 21...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Utah street preacher Lonnie Pursifull</title>
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      <description>Lonnie Pursifull. Pursifull, a Baptist preacher and member of Pennsylvania-based World Wide Street Preachers&apos; Fellowship</description>
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      <title>Goddess Tina Turner outrages Hindus</title>
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      <description>Tina Turner plays Shakti in Merchant Ivory movie The Goddess</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Tina Turner has been chosen to play Shakti, the title character in Merchant Ivory&#39;s new film The Goddess. Sound like sensible casting to me but many Hindus are outraged. Hasmukh Shah, chairman of Vishwa Hindu Parishad UK, a fundamentalist group,...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>If you don&apos;t vote for me you&apos;ll go to Hell</title>
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      <description>Islamic election called matter of heaven and hell</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Islamic cleric Nik Aziz Nik Mat has the nerve many Republican Christians wish they did. &#8220;It is stated in the Quran that those who rally behind Islam are also those who want to live under divine laws laid down by...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Islam illegal, Koran blasphemous</title>
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      <description>Christians claim that the Koran and Islam violate blasphemy laws and are illegal</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Islam was an illegal religion because the Koran preached violence against Christians and Jews, a Christian group told a judge yesterday. The group&#39;s barrister, David Perkins, said that Christianity was established under Australia&#39;s constitution and had special protection, especially through...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Israeli politician wants evangelical Christians to convert Muslims</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Now here&#39;s a scheme sure to exacerbate tensions in the Middle East: JERUSALEM: Israel&#8217;s extreme right-wing Tourism Minister Benny Elon called on Sunday for fundamentalist Christian groups to convert Muslims to &#8216;combat terrorism&#8217; and bolster Israel. &#8220;It would be better...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Concerned citizens want to ban occult books</title>
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      <description>Christian intolerance of fans of occult books, histories of Satanism</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[If you matched all the books on Satanism against that done by religious meddlers who do you think has done the greatest harm? A group called National Concerned Citizens for Youth is campaigning in Gloucester County&#8217;s Washington Township for restricted...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Where would atheists go?</title>
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      <description>Iraqi Directive 137 gives power over marriage to religious leaders</description>
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      <title>No communion for right-to-life supporters</title>
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      <description>Diocese of La Crosse, Bishop Raymond Burke mixes church with state</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Fear that Catholic prelates might do something like this was one of the fears a few nutty folks had about having a Roman Catholic President. LA CROSSE, Wis. - State and federal lawmakers who support abortion rights can no longer...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Placating diehard opponents of female consecration</title>
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      <description>Conservative Catholics hate second Vatican council, anti-semites, Mel Gibson</description>
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      <description>Saudi Arabia bans religious symbols, Barbie dolls</description>
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      <description>Christian Jews pester other Jewish people</description>
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      <description>John Ashcroft dreams of an American  Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice</description>
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      <description>Religious intolerance: Coptic Christians and Muslims fight with  stickers </description>
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      <description>Colby High newspaper upsets local preachers with stories on seances and quija boards</description>
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      <description>Russians don&apos;t want Moonies, Mormons,  or other American religious cults</description>
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      <description>Catholic Church condemns psychics, intolerant of psychic readings.</description>
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      <description>Fundamentalists would destroy pluralistic societies</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[William McKenzie is an associate editorial page editor for The Dallas Morning News. If you want to see how Protestant and Islamic fundamentalism converge, look toward Alabama. Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore&#39;s ardent belief that the Ten Commandments inspire America&#39;s...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Anti-Semitic Passion</title>
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      <description>Is conservative Catholic Mel Gibson&apos;s Passion anti-Semitic, anti-semiticism in Catholocism and popular cultre, religious intolerance.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Mel Gibson&#39;s Passion discussed by Cathy Young in Reason:One reason for these apprehensions is that Gibson belongs to a &#8220;traditionalist&#8221; Catholic movement which rejects the 1965 reforms; his father, a prominent member of this movement, has been quoted as saying...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>God chose white protestants to rule world</title>
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      <description> Lewende Hoop (Living Hope) congregation in Kroonstad</description>
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      <title>Left Behind anti-Catholic</title>
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      <description>Left Behind books are anti-Catholic</description>
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      <title>Faith-based intolerance</title>
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      <description>Faith based religious intolerance and hate speech</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[May 30 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Dee Quigley acknowledged at the time it was &#8220;sick, sick, sick&#39;&#39; for her to be joking about the Holocaust. She regretted, she would later testify, musing about attaching a picture of an oven to her Jewish...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Pupils attending Zionist church (ZCC) beaten by teacher.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Pupils who attended Zionist church (ZCC) gatherings under trees and in private homes, were found guilty of not attending a &#8220;proper church&#8221;. In this village, the &#8220;enlightened&#8221; recognised only two churches - Lutheran and Dutch Reformed. Pupils who missed the...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Anyone of any faith could come listen to him pray. But he would not listen to them. &#8220;I&#39;m busy with my faith,&#8221; he said in an interview this week. &#8220;I don&#39;t believe in other gods.&#8221;A Divisive Spirit Reigns Over National...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Pope Victor, Emperor Constatine Easter, Jewish, Jew, anti-semitism, excommunication.</description>
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      <description>I&apos;m Right, You&apos;re Wrong, Go To Hell: Religions and the meeting of civilization</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[To what extent is a religiously defined civilization compatible with pluralism&#8212;tolerance of others within the same civilization but of different religions? This crucial question points to a major distinction between two types of religion. For some religions, just as &#8220;civilization&#8221;...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Hindus accuse Christian missionaries of bribery.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hindu hard-liners contend anti-conversion laws are needed to combat what they say is a Western conspiracy to undermine India&#39;s majority Hindu faith and culture. Hinduism recognizes thousands of gods and goddesses in contrast to the monotheism of Christianity and Islam....]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the first salvos was fired by the Rev. Franklin Graham, who in October 2001 called Islam "a very evil and wicked religion." (He later insisted he was denouncing Islamic extremism, not all Muslims.) More recently, the Rev. Jerry...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A personal representative of Iran's supreme leader has called for three prominent US Protestant Ministers to be killed for insulting the Muslim prophet Mohammed. The Ayatollah Mohsen Mujtahed Shabestari, who is supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's personal representative to Iran's...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[RALEIGH, N.C. -- Brendan Byrne will head 40 miles from home next week to try to broaden his world at North Carolina's flagship university. He'll carry a copy of Michael Sells' "Approaching the Qu'ran: The Early Revelations." The book was...]]></content:encoded>
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