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		<title>I don’t want to change your beliefs, I want to help you believe them</title>
		<link>http://themattscott.com/2011/09/07/i-dont-want-to-change-your-beliefs-i-want-to-help-you-believe-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A problem I frequently experience when in conversation with others is that I am often seen as the adversarial character. Part of this is because I use the label “atheist-christian,” which often leads others to immediately focus on only one part of the hyphenated label—when talking to a christian, I am labeled an atheist, whereas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living Philosophy (or “How to get Fired”)</title>
		<link>http://themattscott.com/2011/08/23/living-philosophy-or-on-being-fired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When describing the philosophical approach of the Upanishads, Michael Nagler states, “…metaphysics and ethics are one.“1 I respect this concept in many ways, and I’ve often wondered if my ethics (meaning my actions) will line up with my philosophy or not. I recently had a chance to find out…I acted according to my philosophy. I’ve [...]]]></description>
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		<series:name><![CDATA[(False) Inclusivity]]></series:name>
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		<title>Identity and Responsibility: The Irony of Self-Labeling</title>
		<link>http://themattscott.com/2011/08/17/identity-and-responsibility-the-irony-of-creating-labels/</link>
		<comments>http://themattscott.com/2011/08/17/identity-and-responsibility-the-irony-of-creating-labels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 02:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anders Brevik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Žižek]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago Tony Jones launched a poll asking his blog readers to pick a label to replace “progressive.” In explaining why he sought a new label, Jones states, “…we need a label. Words shape us; words do things; words have power. It’s no mistake that conservatives have captured the term ‘evangelical.’ They did that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Determining the Neighbor--Who is it That I Shall I Love?</title>
		<link>http://themattscott.com/2011/08/13/determining-the-neighbor-who-shall-i-love/</link>
		<comments>http://themattscott.com/2011/08/13/determining-the-neighbor-who-shall-i-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Battlestar Galactica]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cycle of Violence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kathleen O'Dwyer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[On Belief]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy Now]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer of St. Francis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently exposed to Žižek’s critique of the commandment to “love your neighbor”. Briefly, Žižek says that such universalized expressions of love are nothing but idealized falsities that cover/mask the humanity of the Other. The typical definition of “the neighbor” in this context is a person close to us, say a family member or a [...]]]></description>
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		<series:name><![CDATA[(False) Inclusivity]]></series:name>
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		<title>Killing the Institution and the System</title>
		<link>http://themattscott.com/2011/08/13/killing-the-institution-and-the-system/</link>
		<comments>http://themattscott.com/2011/08/13/killing-the-institution-and-the-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 01:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the opportunity to engage in/facilitate a discussion group about my previous thoughts on the topic of inclusivity. While you can read those thoughts in my earlier post, allow me to offer a brief summary: I believe that to be inclusive means that one cannot, by definition, exclude. Such exclusivity in the name [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
		<series:name><![CDATA[(False) Inclusivity]]></series:name>
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		<title>On (False) Inclusivity</title>
		<link>http://themattscott.com/2011/07/23/20/</link>
		<comments>http://themattscott.com/2011/07/23/20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately there has been an abundance of conversations about how one should respond to those that reject LGBT people or the equality of LGBT people. The majority of those conversations come to the conclusion that, in order to create a safe space for LGBT, we must exclude those who would seek to exclude others. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musings</title>
		<link>http://themattscott.com/2011/07/15/musings/</link>
		<comments>http://themattscott.com/2011/07/15/musings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m beginning to believe that the Bible legitimately permits of two very different social reads--not just permits, but encourages. The first is the legal view, the contractual view, the one that appeals to order and power, while the second is the radicalized view, which speaks to a going beyond of the status quo. In and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drugstore Handicapping Our Education System</title>
		<link>http://themattscott.com/2011/07/12/drugstore-handicapping-our-education-system/</link>
		<comments>http://themattscott.com/2011/07/12/drugstore-handicapping-our-education-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s what they called back then a drugstore handicap. A guy wants what a fellow calls “a sure thing,” so he schemes to make it so. -Lucky Number Slevin One bit of national news that hits both literally and metaphorically close to home is the recent discovery of the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) cheating scandal. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigration and the early Israelites</title>
		<link>http://themattscott.com/2011/06/14/immigration-and-the-early-israelites/</link>
		<comments>http://themattscott.com/2011/06/14/immigration-and-the-early-israelites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pentateuch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Plato]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Note: This post does not cover ‘solutions’ to the immigration issue; instead, it is an address, of sorts, to Christians regarding (what I see as) the view the Pentateuch takes on being an alien (or immigrant). This post is primarily about the Bible, if that’s not your cup of tea, then this isn’t the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brief Thoughts: Responding to Dawkins</title>
		<link>http://themattscott.com/2011/05/26/brief-thoughts-responding-to-dawkins/</link>
		<comments>http://themattscott.com/2011/05/26/brief-thoughts-responding-to-dawkins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 17:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We have brains: it’s brains that do the thinking, our brains are going to decay, that’ll be that. But when you say, “Is this it?” Well, how much more do you want? This is wonderful.”- Richard Dawkins I saw this Dawkins’ quote yesterday (the quote is from a panel discussion, video here). I wanted to agree [...]]]></description>
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