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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&amp;blog=5305977&amp;post=532&amp;subd=velska&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rise (and fall) of rational Theology</title>
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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&amp;blog=5305977&amp;post=521&amp;subd=velska&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating King James Bible</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some others may have read the August Ensign, and noted the pages dedicated to celebrating 400 years of King James Bible. I was sort of inspired to put my 2 cents about the Bible in ordered bits as if someone else were interested in my thoughts. Feel free to criticise/correct me; but my hope is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&amp;blog=5305977&amp;post=514&amp;subd=velska&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding the historical &#8220;Truth&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://english.velska.net/2011/06/17/finding-the-historical-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s interesting to notice how easy it is to misunderstand/misinterpret history. Historical &#8220;facts&#8221; arise from different sources, and it is the historian&#8217;s job to sift the documentary evidence and see what kind of balance comes out in the end. And the balance doesn&#8217;t necessarily come from the volume of the documentation. Popular lies get reported [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&amp;blog=5305977&amp;post=504&amp;subd=velska&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crisis, Choice and Commitment</title>
		<link>http://english.velska.net/2011/05/26/crisis-choice-and-commitment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 21:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So a theme I&#8217;ve been reading about lately is the crisis of faith phenomena in Mormon circles. It seems that there are endless numbers of people who 1) have been brought up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) by parents, who have taught the gospel at home and have strongly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&amp;blog=5305977&amp;post=501&amp;subd=velska&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, Mother!</title>
		<link>http://english.velska.net/2011/05/20/oh-mother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 20:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I am being &#8220;inspired&#8221; to write this partially (a big part, I must confess) by an article/podcast discussion about the issue at MormonMatters.org. Not plagiarizing, but just tossing out some thoughts to consider. I encourage you to get familiar with the article and podcast. The podcast shoots down some stuff that many of us [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&amp;blog=5305977&amp;post=497&amp;subd=velska&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Major Spiritual Tradition from Middle East</title>
		<link>http://english.velska.net/2011/04/21/the-other-major-spiritual-tradition-from-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am going to discuss different spiritual traditions. First of all, it is good to get the idea across, that for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints it&#8217;s an article of faith that: &#8220;&#8230;we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.&#8221; (Articles of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&amp;blog=5305977&amp;post=490&amp;subd=velska&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rachel vs. Leah</title>
		<link>http://english.velska.net/2011/04/15/rachel-vs-leah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading the Old Testament, and one of the things that have caught my eye is the rivalry between Rachel and Leah. The basic setting is, that Jacob is more fond of Rachel, but Leah is the one who bears children to Jacob, and in their nomadic society children were an asset, not a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&amp;blog=5305977&amp;post=485&amp;subd=velska&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women in The Priesthood</title>
		<link>http://english.velska.net/2011/04/14/women-in-the-priesthood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now and again I hear someone ask when women will receive the Priesthood, which I spell with a capital P to denote that I mean the Priesthood expounded in the D&#38;C as a whole package, including all the covenants. The Priesthood is incomplete without the covenants. It is true, that a woman does not receive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&amp;blog=5305977&amp;post=481&amp;subd=velska&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hierarchy</title>
		<link>http://english.velska.net/2011/03/20/hierarchy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is &#8220;hierarchy&#8221;? Let me answer in the words of etymology dictionary: c.1343, from O.Fr. ierarchie,  from M.L. hierarchia  &#8221;ranked division of angels&#8221; (in the system of Dionysius the Areopagite), from Gk. hierarchia  &#8221;rule of a high priest,&#8221; from hierarches  &#8221;high priest, leader of sacred rites,&#8221; from ta hiera  &#8221;the sacred rites&#8221; (neut. pl. of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=english.velska.net&amp;blog=5305977&amp;post=474&amp;subd=velska&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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