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		<title>Tithing controversies</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2006/07/21/tithing-controversies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good evangelical Protestants are supposed to &#8216;tithe&#8217; i.e. give (at least) ten per cent of their incomes to &#8216;God&#8217;. But what does this mean in practice?
According to recent surveys (Ellison Research, reported in Australian Prayer Network International News, 10 Jul. 2006), a majority of American Protestant pastors say that the tithe should go to &#8216;the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fatherhood Foundation and coffee enemas</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2006/07/10/fatherhood-foundation-and-coffee-enemas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2006 02:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Christian Right groups always attract their fair share of health cranks. The North Queensland Pain Help Centre, based in Mareeba, recently had this published in the Fatherhood Foundation newsletter (3 Jul. 2006):
&#8230; One issue you raised is the addiction to coffee, mine is still high! However, there is an upside to coffee, pardon the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bible on the way out?</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2006/07/02/bible-on-the-way-out/</link>
		<comments>http://unbelief.org/2006/07/02/bible-on-the-way-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2006 02:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The very last weekly issue of the Australian evangelical publication New Life (29 Jun. 2006) reports that the worldwide distribution of the Bible is trending steeply downwards. I&#8217;m sure the expansion of the Internet would have something to do with this, but it contradicts just about every piece of Christian propaganda that I&#8217;ve seen. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Tony Abbott</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2006/05/27/st-tony-abbott/</link>
		<comments>http://unbelief.org/2006/05/27/st-tony-abbott/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 02:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angie</dc:creator>
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  Just before lunch [last Thursday], the Leader of the House, Tony Abbott, sought to axe debate on former deputy prime minister John Anderson&#8217;s [Australian Wheat Board] share dealings. &#8216;I move that the snivelling grub over there be not further heard&#8217;, he said, referring to &#8230; Labor public accountability spokesman Kelvin Thompson. Cue uproar. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian bodies</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2006/05/27/christian-bodies/</link>
		<comments>http://unbelief.org/2006/05/27/christian-bodies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 02:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angie</dc:creator>
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Most Christians in the US don&#8217;t believe they will experience a resurrection of their bodies when they die &#8230; 36% said &#8216;yes&#8217; to the question, &#8216;Do you believe that, after you die, your physical body will be resurrected some day?&#8217; Another 54% said they do not believe, and 10% were undecided. &#8216;This reflects the very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best line from a letter about &#8216;The Da Vinci Code&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2006/05/27/best-line-from-a-letter-about-the-da-vinci-code/</link>
		<comments>http://unbelief.org/2006/05/27/best-line-from-a-letter-about-the-da-vinci-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 02:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First prize of a kick in the crutch from Tony Abbott and 10,000 years in purgatory goes to Arnold Thomas of Boronia, Victoria:
 To those who are upset by &#8216;The Da Vinci Code&#8217;, please, remember this. It is a novel, it is fiction, it is a made-up story &#8211; you know, a bit like your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defending the faith?</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2006/05/11/defending-the-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://unbelief.org/2006/05/11/defending-the-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 02:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;I think Jesus is the most famous person in history&#8217;, wrote Rachel Woodlock in an Easter reflection piece. (&#8216;Faith&#8217;, Sunday Age, 30 Apr. 2006)
&#8216;Ho hum&#8217;, I thought, and apparently so did just about every fundamentalist in Melbourne.  But unlike them I read on:
 Even as a non-Christian, I have a satisfying familiarity with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Churches rip themselves up</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2006/04/27/churches-rip-themselves-up/</link>
		<comments>http://unbelief.org/2006/04/27/churches-rip-themselves-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 02:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(1)	Anglicans
 More than 100 leading Australian Anglicans have accused the previous Archbishop of Canterbury of disloyalty, as divisions over homosexuality in the worldwide Anglican church deepen. The Anglicans have written to Dr George Carey, the previous spiritual head of the church, accusing him of undermining his successor, Archbishop Rowan Williams, and offering himself as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tsunami disaster</title>
		<link>http://unbelief.org/2004/12/28/tsunami-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://unbelief.org/2004/12/28/tsunami-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2004 05:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bronny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A massive earthquake on Boxing Day generated tsunamis which killed thousands throughout Asia, while millions lost their homes.  Let&#8217;s hope that those affected can re-group, with help  from the rest of the world.
Natural disasters like this must create a dilemma for those who believe in a benevolent God. Pastors will wring their hands [...]]]></description>
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