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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you know I’ve been reading this book and I’m really enjoying it, even though the writing is sometimes hard to get through and Tolstoy’s arguments are often hard to come to terms with.  But I wanted to share these thoughts because they seemed so significant.
Read it slowly and take some time to think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpeningiron.wordpress.com&blog=2893854&post=351&subd=sharpeningiron&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contradiction between our life and Christ&#8217;s instruction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tolstoy on the contradiction between our life and our Christian conscience by classes:

&#8220;The man of the so-called educated classes lives in still more glaring inconsistency and suffering. Every educated man, if he believes in anything, believes in the brotherhood of all men, or at least he has a sentiment of humanity, or else of justice, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpeningiron.wordpress.com&blog=2893854&post=342&subd=sharpeningiron&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wish I had known this guy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leo Tolstoy 1893
&#8220;In these letters, expressing their [Quakers] sympathy with my views on the unlawfulness for a Christian of war and the use of force of any kind, the Quakers gave me details of their own so-called sect, which for more than two hundred years has actually professed the teaching of Christ on nonresistance to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpeningiron.wordpress.com&blog=2893854&post=340&subd=sharpeningiron&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The value of a person&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sharpeningiron.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/the-value-of-a-person/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1 Peter 2:16-17
16 Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.
17 Honor [timao -to assign value to, to price] all people [pas - all, everyone], love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king [or emperor].

Questions:
Do you value other people?
Do you see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpeningiron.wordpress.com&blog=2893854&post=338&subd=sharpeningiron&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What would Jesus Christ tell our churches today?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Semi-fictional arguments given by today&#8217;s churches&#8230;
&#8220;We need a larger church building.  To do that, we need to take on debt&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;God wants us to grow, grow, grow&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;We can serve God better by being a larger church&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;With more members, we can offer more programs&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s an unfortunate reality of today&#8217;s times that to grow, we need to take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpeningiron.wordpress.com&blog=2893854&post=335&subd=sharpeningiron&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Something profound from Pharyngula</title>
		<link>http://sharpeningiron.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/something-profound-from-pharyngula/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something interesting on Pharyngula today.  Well, to be fair, there&#8217;s always something interesting over there aside from the religion bashing and name calling.
Dr. PZ Myers has reviewed a book entitled &#8220;Don&#8217;t Be Such a Scientist:  Talking Substance in an Age of Style.&#8221;
In his review, he writes:
There are lessons worth learning throughout the book; one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpeningiron.wordpress.com&blog=2893854&post=330&subd=sharpeningiron&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Egads&#8230;the new WORDPRESS.COM home page is TERRIBLE!!</title>
		<link>http://sharpeningiron.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/egads-the-new-wordpress-com-home-page-is-terrible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s up with the new WordPress.Com homepage.  Horrible design, horrible idea.
I didn&#8217;t care much for the previous design either, but this is way worse.
I actually liked the design BEFORE the previous design (3 designs ago&#8230;)
Sigh.
Posted in Wordpress.Com       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpeningiron.wordpress.com&blog=2893854&post=326&subd=sharpeningiron&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do we as humans ALWAYS have to demonize other people groups?</title>
		<link>http://sharpeningiron.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/do-we-as-humans-always-have-to-demonize-other-people-groups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are we genetically predetermined to demonize other people groups, who believe differently than we do?
Are we somehow hard wired to &#8220;hate&#8221; others?  To mock them?  To ridicule them?
WE are the human race &#8211; WE are in this together.  Blacks, Whites, Asians, Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, Intelligent and Ignorant.  WE are no better than our neighbor.  WE [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sharpeningiron.wordpress.com&blog=2893854&post=313&subd=sharpeningiron&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Song written/played by a friend of mine</title>
		<link>http://sharpeningiron.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/song-writtenplayed-by-a-friend-of-mine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this song&#8230;Pretty good stuff.  Country/Southern sound&#8230;a little like a slow Bon Jovi song.
http://www.myspace.com/bbillingsmusic
Name of the song is 21 Guns and starts playing automatically.
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		<title>Great story&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sharpeningiron.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/great-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boy survives 8-mile river ride on toy truck
Canadian police say toddler unscathed, unfazed after two-hour ordeal
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31910113/ns/world_news-wonderful_world/
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