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		<title>About faith crises</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I was asked whether I had ever had a crisis of faith. This wasn&#8217;t the first time, but I had to ask for some room to define, to interpret the question. I will write about my chain of thought about that. About faith: I want to remind that faith is not about absolute [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&#038;blog=5305977&#038;post=584&#038;subd=velska&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Destructive Nationalism in Support of Racism and Slavery (Nationalism Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must confess that I calculated the headline to be provocative. I mean to provoke, but I also mean to clear my own thoughts a little. I do not think that it is a far-fetched thought that Nationalist ideas have partly been constructed to support Racism and Slavery. From the multitudes of examples, I could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&#038;blog=5305977&#038;post=580&#038;subd=velska&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Griping About Destructive Nationalism, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://english.velska.net/2012/08/07/griping-about-destructive-nationalism-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[London has been on the news lately, with some good news for a change. Or at least feel-good, not rioting like last year. But let us not forget that the roots of the rioting are there, untouched, and with David Cameron publicly recounting his wet dream of more &#8220;welfare cuts&#8221; (i.e. cutting services that poor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&#038;blog=5305977&#038;post=576&#038;subd=velska&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Personhood, or Being a person</title>
		<link>http://english.velska.net/2012/04/13/personhood-or-being-a-person/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some recent phenomena have prompted me to write this, in an attempt at a common sense-philosophical study of what the word person means, and how definitions of being a person&#8211;sometimes called personhood&#8211;have been expanded in recent centuries. I am doing it mostly for my own benefit, to organise my own thoughts, but in our time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&#038;blog=5305977&#038;post=565&#038;subd=velska&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>They say I&#8217;m not Christian? I&#8217;m indifferent&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://english.velska.net/2012/03/05/they-say-im-not-christian-im-indifferent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 23:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The headline here is revealing. So I&#8217;ve been reading yet another set of press articles, where &#8220;journalists&#8221; interview a Baptist pastor about the &#8220;Mormon&#8221; faith? (Deep breath.) Anyhow, there have been about a billion blog posts, where Mormons argue that their church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is a Christian church, because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&#038;blog=5305977&#038;post=558&#038;subd=velska&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Critical History forbidden to Latter-day Saints?</title>
		<link>http://english.velska.net/2012/03/02/is-critical-history-forbidden-to-latter-day-saints/</link>
		<comments>http://english.velska.net/2012/03/02/is-critical-history-forbidden-to-latter-day-saints/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On another forum (in another language), we had some discussion about Critical History some while ago. In that discussion, I guess we all were very much for open history. The audience was somewhat self-selected for openness, as it is a site for airing &#8220;issues&#8221; in a polite, but open way. We should not, by any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&#038;blog=5305977&#038;post=526&#038;subd=velska&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gay marriage, another personal take</title>
		<link>http://english.velska.net/2012/02/12/gay-marriage-another-personal-take/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As someone else already pointed out, marriage ceremony was always between one man and one woman in Judeo-Christian culture, although one man could end up with more than one living wife in several cultures in history (including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) up to the turn of the 20th century). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&#038;blog=5305977&#038;post=548&#038;subd=velska&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nonviolence vs. Pacifism, or How to solve unsolveable problems?</title>
		<link>http://english.velska.net/2012/02/01/nonviolence-vs-pacifism-or-how-to-solve-unsolveable-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to countenance a situation that can&#8217;t be countenanced? I started thinking about that again as I was reading the updated biography of Nelson Mandela by Anthony Sampson (updated by John Battersby, pub. 2011). First of all, there is the kind of racism that, while stepping on your toes, isn&#8217;t about running you completely to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&#038;blog=5305977&#038;post=539&#038;subd=velska&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good and Evil &#8212; Thinking of Moral Philosophy</title>
		<link>http://english.velska.net/2012/01/05/good-and-evil-thinking-of-moral-philosophy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must stress my disclaimers here, especially: These thoughts are my own, if by nothing else, my adopting them because they make sense and sound right. Also, I am by no means an official representative of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Just a member with a few decades of experience on local/district [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&#038;blog=5305977&#038;post=532&#038;subd=velska&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rise (and fall) of rational Theology</title>
		<link>http://english.velska.net/2011/08/07/rise-and-fall-of-rational-theology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I mentioned King James Bible in an earlier post, I deliberately left out the turmoil of Continental Europe. The 17th century brought on wars that have somewhat falsely been called religious wars, but are generally the 30 years war. It was about formerly Catholic princes, king, dukes etc. pitting their forces against their Protestant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&#038;blog=5305977&#038;post=521&#038;subd=velska&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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