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	<title>Mormon Monsters</title>
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	<description>At the edge of faith, there be monsters</description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Know What I Saw!&#8221; Thoughts on Perception, Memory, and Faith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Memory&#8217;s unreliable…memory&#8217;s not perfect. It&#8217;s not even that good. Ask the police; eyewitness testimony is unreliable…. Memory can change the shape of a room or the color of a car. It&#8217;s an interpretation, not a record. Memories can be changed or distorted, and they&#8217;re irrelevant if you have the facts.” —Leonard Shelby, Memento A recent episode of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonmonsters.com/2010/08/i-know-what-i-saw-thoughts-on-perception-memory-and-faith/</link>
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		<title>Sobering Moments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I&#8217;ll be telling my eight year old that one of his friends died last night in a tragic accident. I can&#8217;t imagine what the family of this little boy is going through. It&#8217;s devastating even from afar. For those of us affected at a distance, it&#8217;s a sobering reminder of how fragile this life is, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonmonsters.com/2010/08/sobering-moments/</link>
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		<title>Mahering the New Atheists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was excited to see Bob Rees—a thoughtful believer if there ever was one—review Bill Maher&#8217;s pseudo-documentary, Religulous, in Sunstone (May 2009), but was ultimately disappointed. As is often the case with critiques of anti-theists like Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, or Christopher Hitchens, the review chose to play the “Religion Shouldn’t be Ridiculed” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonmonsters.com/2010/08/mahering-the-new-atheists/</link>
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		<title>L8er G8er</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fundamental rights may not be submitted to [a] vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonmonsters.com/2010/08/prop-8-overturned/</link>
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		<title>Little Battles in a Big War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The War I recently became very frustrated in reading the back and forth between two friends in the Mormon History community. One is a believer; one isn’t. They were discussing a certain historical incident, the 1832 attack on Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, and Sidney Rigdon, his assistant, at the Johnson family farm near Kirtland, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonmonsters.com/2010/07/132/</link>
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		<title>Impotent Facts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joining Nahum in the ranks of the impotent, facts apparently have little power &#8211; especially when they are used to counter misinformation. This article from The Boston Globe relates specifically to political belief and voter behavior, but it shouldn&#8217;t be too difficult to see the correlation to other realms of belief. From the article: Most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonmonsters.com/2010/07/impotent-facts/</link>
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		<title>The LDS Church, Immigration, and Moral Courage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the LDS Church making a concerted effort to educate and teach tolerance to its members on the issue of illegal immigration, albeit indirectly? Consider: on Saturday the Deseret News published a lengthy article addressing "myths" of illegal immigration that largely debunked common notions of the country losing billions to immigrants via unpaid taxes, lost jobs, healthcare, welfare, etc. Then today KSL had an editorial endorsing Salt Lake City police chief Chris Burbank who has come under intense criticism for his negative assessment of Arizona's new law.]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonmonsters.com/2010/06/the-lds-church-immigration-and-moral-courage/</link>
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		<title>Unbelief is not Disobedience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I stopped going to church, it was a decision based upon years of wrestling with its truth-statements.]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonmonsters.com/2010/06/unbelief-is-not-disobedience/</link>
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		<title>PostSecret and Mormonism &#8211; Faking It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night PostSecret included another Mormon-related card. This one is interesting in that it generated quite a bit of searching for the blog behind the &#8220;Faking It&#8221; sentiment. A number of links showing up in the search engines turn out to be malware, but the actual link is listed here after the jump&#8230; Since PostSecret [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonmonsters.com/2010/02/postsecret-faking-it/</link>
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		<title>Choosing Belief or Disbelief and the Limits of Agency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If we are not fully determined and can choose belief or disbelief, can one choose non-belief or is it forced upon one by a collapsing moment of unbelief.  If one can choose non-belief (in the way in which I have defined the word), how then can one un-choose it?]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonmonsters.com/2010/02/choosing-belief-or-disbelief-and-the-limits-of-agency/</link>
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