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		<title>Christians just want to be victims</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2010/12/01/christian-victims/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2010/12/01/christian-victims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/?p=330</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Christians in the UK are not being discriminated against - they're just not accustomed to being a marginal and pointless minority.]]></description>
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		<title>When prejudice becomes law</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2010/01/19/when-prejudice-become-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2010/01/19/when-prejudice-become-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/?p=281</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The UK Government wants to change the law to allow religious organisations to discriminate in the workplace]]></description>
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		<title>Is religion bad for us?</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2009/12/09/is-religion-bad-for-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2009/12/09/is-religion-bad-for-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/?p=228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new sociological report suggests that religion is a bad influence on society and its morals - and that the US in particular is in deep trouble because of it.]]></description>
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		<title>Marrying without god</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2009/02/19/marrying-without-god/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2009/02/19/marrying-without-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[belief]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The decline in church weddings illustrates that even the apparent remnants of religiosity in society may be an illusion]]></description>
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		<title>Church and state: a bad combination</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/12/24/church-and-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/12/24/church-and-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[belief]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/?p=132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What the UK needs isn't just disestablishment but a genuine separation of church and state. Faiths are, by their very nature, exclusionary and discriminatory and they have no place in government business.]]></description>
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		<title>A fine matter of discrimination</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/12/23/discrimination/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/12/23/discrimination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/?p=128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A London tribunal has found that a local government officer, a Christian, was guilty of discrimination when she refused to conduct gay marriages.]]></description>
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		<title>Vote for Darwin Day</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/12/18/vote-for-darwin-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/12/18/vote-for-darwin-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/?p=120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Watford Area Humanists are attempting to have Darwin Day - 12th February - made a Bank Holiday in the UK.  Add your voice to the petition.]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin: on a mission from god?</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/10/11/palin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/10/11/palin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fundamentalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/10/11/palin/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just how much are fundamentalist and bigoted religious views driving Sarah Palin&#8217;s bid for the VP slot? And given that Palin has now been found, by an enquiry, to have acted unethically, can she be trusted in such a powerful position?]]></description>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s police state</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/09/12/police-oppression/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/09/12/police-oppression/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[civil liberties]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/09/12/police-oppression/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Union of Journalists has released an important new film about police harrassment of photojournalists. It's required viewing for anyone who cares about freedom of the press or civil liberties in general.]]></description>
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		<title>In Accord over education</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/09/01/accord/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/09/01/accord/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/09/01/accord/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A number of organisations have come together to create Accord - a campaigning coalition dedicated to making school a place of learning and discovery, not an excuse for religious indoctrination.]]></description>
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		<title>Faith schools: the wrong issue</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/08/31/faith_schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/08/31/faith_schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[belief]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/08/31/faith_schools/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Faith schools have been criticised for hiring only those teachers who practice that faith. But the real issue is the existence of those schools.]]></description>
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		<title>The triumph of reason</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/05/21/embryology_bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/05/21/embryology_bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 07:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[belief]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/05/21/embryology_bill/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The four votes on aspects of the Embryology Bill in the UK presented an opportunity for the religiously blinkered to put narrow-minded dogma before compassion and scientific progress. They were soundly and properly trounced. It&#8217;s always good to see reason prevail. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill represents the most important development in fertility law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First they came for the perverts</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/04/04/first_they_came/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/04/04/first_they_came/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[civil liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet & Web]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/04/04/first_they_came/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The process of destroying freedom often starts with steps that seem reasonable. If you want to strip everyone of their civil liberties, start with a group everyone despises. Few groups fit this bill better than paedophiles. There is a famous and oft-quoted text that reads: In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blair calls for more faith</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/04/03/blair_and_faith/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/04/03/blair_and_faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tony Blair]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/04/03/blair_and_faith/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There always was something slightly messianic about Tony Blair. Now he is calling for a greater role for faith in world affairs &#8211; as if religion were the solution rather than the problem. [photopress:blair.jpg,full,alignright]According to The Guardian, Blair will be delivering a lecture at Westminster Abbey where he will say that &#8220;failure to engage with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The many threats to freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/03/24/many_threats_to_freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/03/24/many_threats_to_freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Geert Wilders]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/03/24/many_threats_to_freedom/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A website promoting a short film by Geert Wilders, the Dutch anti-immigration politician, has been taken offline by the Internet services company hosting it. This was not a judgment on the quality, morality or intellectual worth of the film: it was an act of fear. I don&#8217;t care much for Wilders. His anti-Islam crusade is [...]]]></description>
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