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	<title>Notes</title>
	<link>http://www.peterwall.net</link>
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		<title>Vicious Predators and Would-Be Destroyers of Justice and Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From a letter in The Fresno Bee this morning:
If [a] predator is convicted on circumstantial evidence, they should get a life sentence with no chance of parole and only one appeal. If convicted with evidence that only points to him, the authorities should take that person straight to the death chamber.
Really? How is that going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peterwall.net/index.php/2010/03/14/vicious-predators-and-would-be-destroyers-of-justice-and-law/</link>
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		<title>No Good Reasons from Keller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, someone asked me to read The Reason for God by Timothy Keller. There is not a single compelling argument in the book. Worse, Keller inexplicably fails to reach the foundational question until the first sentence of his eighth chapter, more than halfway through:
How can we believe in Christianity if we don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peterwall.net/index.php/2010/03/06/no-good-reasons-from-keller/</link>
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		<title>The Problem of Legislative Prayer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a question from one of the letters published in The Fresno Bee today:
How have we gotten to this point that a prayer mentioning Christ is unconstitutional?
The question was prompted by a recent challenge to the Fresno City Council&#8217;s practice of opening its meetings with a Christian prayer. But whatever you think about the usefulness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peterwall.net/index.php/2010/02/21/the-problem-of-legislative-prayer/</link>
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		<title>Jess King of Somewhere Near Lindsey California</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And if you thought the vile comments from Christians that I reproduced in my last two posts (&#8220;A Gallery of Local Hatred and Unreasoned Animosity&#8221; and &#8220;Unreason Veiled in Sentimentality is No Improvement&#8220;) weren&#8217;t offensive enough, my brother unfortunately managed to elicit another one.
First, Jess King of somewhere near Lindsey, California said this:
Atheists don’t believe in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peterwall.net/index.php/2010/02/13/jess-king-of-somewhere-near-lindsey-california/</link>
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		<title>Unreason Veiled in Sentimentality is No Improvement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The same article I referred to in my last post—about unconstitutional prayers at Fresno City Council meetings—has also engendered a different kind of response. This one is not so obviously vicious, but it is equally unreasoned and just as disquieting.
From &#8220;markos13&#8220;:
I can&#8217;t help but feel sorry for these athiests, and those that defend them. I cannot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peterwall.net/index.php/2010/02/10/unreason-veiled-in-sentimentality/</link>
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		<title>A Gallery of Local Hatred and Unreasoned Animosity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Central Valley Alliance of Atheists and Skeptics recently prompted the Freedom From Religion Foundation to send a warning letter to Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin about unconstitutional prayers at City Council meetings. I am not a member of CVAAS, but I am familiar with several of its people. And while I agree with the position [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peterwall.net/index.php/2010/02/10/a-gallery-of-local-hatred-and-unreasoned-animosity/</link>
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		<title>Religion and Responsibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to my Sunday morning sermon. If you start to feel uncomfortable, just stay with me to the end; you may be pleasantly surprised.
This is staggeringly ridiculous, and far more terrifying than foreign terrorists:
Testifying in his own defense, a remorseless and resolute Roeder insisted he had committed a justified act for the defense of unborn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peterwall.net/index.php/2010/01/31/religion-and-responsibility/</link>
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		<title>Open Discussion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The comments below serve as an open thread, prompted by a discussion elsewhere, on general topics that encompass religion, morality, ethics, secularism, and whatever is reasonably related. Here are the rules of conduct, which I will enforce as needed, as fairly as I can:

Do not make personal attacks.
Having an opposing opinion is fine. Being unreasonable or grossly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peterwall.net/index.php/2010/01/19/open-discussion/</link>
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		<title>What We&#8217;re Up Against</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, the letters page of The Fresno Bee was filled with foolishness this morning. So I decided to go online and push back. And then, on one letter, this comment appeared, from someone using the alias &#8220;All_American&#8220;:
Sarah [Palin] is a scholar bar none when put up against any liberal. She knows what being an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peterwall.net/index.php/2010/01/17/what-were-up-against/</link>
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		<title>The Right to Live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professor Myers has it right:
Children are your responsibility, not your personal sheet of blank paper.
Right? Understand? Seems uncontroversial? But he continues with a razor sharp observation that should spur some critical thought among its targets:
They aren&#8217;t there for you to scribble on, crumple up, and throw away if you don&#8217;t like them. Isn&#8217;t it weird how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peterwall.net/index.php/2010/01/08/the-right-to-live/</link>
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