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	<description>At the edge of faith, there be monsters</description>
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		<title>Baptism for the Dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve watched with fascination the discussion of baptism for the dead, both in online message boards I frequent and in the larger media, after the news that Mitt Romney&#8217;s atheist father-in-law was posthumously. Maybe I&#8217;m so fascinated because, like the gay marriage issue, there&#8217;s a &#8220;we mean well&#8221; attitude among Mormon church members that makes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonmonsters.com/2012/02/baptism-for-the-dead/</link>
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		<title>Self-discovery versus Self-transcendence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonah, I wanted to move your question here because I think its an important one and I don’t want it to get lost inside the other two conversations growing within the original thread about feminist Mormonism on Patheos. It may end up with just the two of us talking, but that’s fine. I’m intrigued by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonmonsters.com/2010/12/self-discovery-versus-self-transcendence/</link>
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		<title>“Omitting Sharp Words” — Boyd K. Packer and the Tradition of Accommodation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday&#8217;s General Conference address by Elder Boyd K. Packer caused, in the words of LDSLiving.com, &#8220;quite the stir in nonmember communities.&#8221;  It seems to have caused quite a stir in the LDS community as well (see this posting on &#8220;The Times and Seasons&#8221; discussing the talk as an example).  Then came word Wednesday that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonmonsters.com/2010/10/omitting-sharp-words-boyd-k-packer-and-the-tradition-of-accomodation/</link>
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		<title>Mormon Addiction to Porn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The upcoming 30-minute documentary following Sunday&#8217;s General Conference addresses the problem of pornography &#8220;consumption&#8221; by members of the LDS Church.  There is data to support this concern:  In a February 2009 analysis of anonymised credit card receipts, Utah ranked first in porn &#8220;consumers&#8221; in the nation, with 5.47 of every thousand homes with broadband access [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mormonmonsters.com/2010/09/mormon-addiction-to-porn/</link>
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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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