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	<title>The Spinozist Mormon</title>
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	<description>Exploratory deployment of two Mormon imperatives&#8212;&#8220;prove all things; hold fast that which is good,&#8221; and &#8220;awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words&#8221;&#8212;from perspectives unfamiliar: secular, scientific, humanistic, cultural (high and low), and maybe even&#8212;gasp!&#8212;feminist.</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8220;Franchise Religion&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.spinozist.us/2007/10/22/franchise-religion/christian-y-cardall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spinozist.us/2007/10/22/franchise-religion/christian-y-cardall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Y. Cardall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A New Yorker profile of Mitt Romney addresses the question of how well his management style translates in the political arena. Its thesis is that Romney&#8217;s approach to politics and governance originates from the institutional nature of Mormonism as well as from his experience in management consulting and corporate turnarounds. The treatment is less sympathetic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salvaging Spinoza for Mormons</title>
		<link>http://www.spinozist.us/2007/10/08/salvaging-spinoza-for-mormons/christian-y-cardall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spinozist.us/2007/10/08/salvaging-spinoza-for-mormons/christian-y-cardall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Y. Cardall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Smith often exhibited an admirable willingness to salvage rather than savage people and ideas. In a similarly liberal spirit Mike W.&#8217;s comment on yesterday&#8217;s post shows a desire to find a way to appreciate Spinoza&#8217;s thought in light of Mormonism despite Spinoza&#8217;s antagonism towards religious authority and other mainstream religious concepts. Indeed, I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Betraying the Spinozist Take from General Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.spinozist.us/2007/10/07/betraying-the-spinozist-take-on-general-conference/christian-y-cardall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spinozist.us/2007/10/07/betraying-the-spinozist-take-on-general-conference/christian-y-cardall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Y. Cardall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For a few General Conferences in a row I posted summaries of each individual session, but this time I have not. Instead, I decided yesterday to channel the devout Mormon&#8217;s sense of entitlement to skimp on Saturday chores and binge on the prophetic word into something I pretty much never do. I read an entire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spinozist Mormon Swimsuit Issue</title>
		<link>http://www.spinozist.us/2007/05/01/the-spinozist-mormon-swimsuit-issue/christian-y-cardall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spinozist.us/2007/05/01/the-spinozist-mormon-swimsuit-issue/christian-y-cardall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 16:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Y. Cardall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sisters, it&#8217;s that time of year again&#8230; Time to start thinking about finding that special piece of swimwear that will both accentuate your most positive features and allow you to uphold the modesty that becomes daughters of God.
May I recommend these? Don&#8217;t despair if your favorite style is not in your preferred color; click on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spinozist Take from General Conference, April 2007, Day Two</title>
		<link>http://www.spinozist.us/2007/04/01/the-spinozist-take-from-general-conference-april-2007-day-two/christian-y-cardall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spinozist.us/2007/04/01/the-spinozist-take-from-general-conference-april-2007-day-two/christian-y-cardall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Y. Cardall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are brief first impressions of talks from the second day of General Conference,  to be updated throughout the day.
Sunday Morning Session
President Faust: The shocking murders of Amish schoolgirls caused anguish but not anger, hurt but not hate in their community. Their forgiveness was immediate, manifest in love expressed to the gunman&#8217;s family. Forgiveness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spinozist Take from General Conference, April 2007, Day One</title>
		<link>http://www.spinozist.us/2007/03/31/the-spinozist-take-from-general-conference-april-2007-day-one/christian-y-cardall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spinozist.us/2007/03/31/the-spinozist-take-from-general-conference-april-2007-day-one/christian-y-cardall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Y. Cardall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are brief first impressions of talks from the first day of General Conference,  to be updated throughout the day.
Saturday Morning Session
There were no opening remarks from President Hinckley.
Elder Scott: God has created numberless cosmos and filled them with worlds (a redundancy, or endorsement of the multiverse hypothesis?), but we can communicate with him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romney&#8217;s Knoxville Blunder</title>
		<link>http://www.spinozist.us/2007/03/07/romneys-knoxville-blunder/christian-y-cardall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spinozist.us/2007/03/07/romneys-knoxville-blunder/christian-y-cardall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Y. Cardall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Massachusetts governor (and not-former Mormon) Mitt Romney has a decent shot at the Republican presidential nomination.


He is untainted by the sort of family drama (three marriages, two estranged teen and young-adult children) that could end up nauseating voters in the case of current frontrunner Rudy Giuliani. As Romney&#8217;s wife recently quipped in a nod [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mutaa: Arabic for &#8216;Enjoyment Marriage&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.spinozist.us/2007/01/20/mutaa-arabic-for-enjoyment-marriage/christian-y-cardall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spinozist.us/2007/01/20/mutaa-arabic-for-enjoyment-marriage/christian-y-cardall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Y. Cardall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article in the Washington Post this morning about the resurgent practice of mutaa in Iraq. A traditional Shiite practice apparently banned under Saddam, a mutaa is a &#8216;marriage&#8217; with a sunset provision, in which the parties agree in advance that the man&#8217;s financial support and the woman&#8217;s companionship will continue for only a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was Elder McConkie visited by the Savior?</title>
		<link>http://www.spinozist.us/2006/10/22/was-elder-mcconkie-visited-by-the-savior/christian-y-cardall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spinozist.us/2006/10/22/was-elder-mcconkie-visited-by-the-savior/christian-y-cardall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Y. Cardall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of his responses to my previous post, Jared* is probably not alone in thinking that Elder Bruce R. McConkie&#8217;s final conference address and his discussion of seeing God in the last two chapters of his book The Promised Messiah suggest that he himself had been visited in person by the resurrected Jesus Christ. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divine Sympathy for Skepticism</title>
		<link>http://www.spinozist.us/2006/10/15/divine-sympathy-for-skepticism/christian-y-cardall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spinozist.us/2006/10/15/divine-sympathy-for-skepticism/christian-y-cardall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Y. Cardall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As a matter of ontological outlook, atheism seems to have been foreign to ancient cultures and mindsets preceding and surrounding the Greeks of a few hundred years B.C.; but skepticism with regard to individual claims of prophetic power and authority seems to be a more ancient, deeply rooted, widespread, and respectable tradition. In fact, while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Researchers&#8217; Quantitative Incompetence</title>
		<link>http://www.spinozist.us/2006/10/11/medical-researchers-quantitative-incompetence/christian-y-cardall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spinozist.us/2006/10/11/medical-researchers-quantitative-incompetence/christian-y-cardall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Y. Cardall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry, but I just couldn&#8217;t read beyond this headline in The Washington Post: &#8220;Study Claims Iraq&#8217;s &#8216;Excess&#8217; Death Toll Has Reached 655,000.&#8221; I wouldn&#8217;t expect pre-med students to become skilled at Fermi problems, and indeed I wouldn&#8217;t expect your typical practicing M.D. to remember much at all from required physics classes I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Weakest Links: Week of 9 October 2006</title>
		<link>http://www.spinozist.us/2006/10/11/the-weakest-links-week-of-9-october-2006/christian-y-cardall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spinozist.us/2006/10/11/the-weakest-links-week-of-9-october-2006/christian-y-cardall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Y. Cardall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The last edition of The Weakest Links, available on the sidebar under the heading “Temporalia (Week of 2 October),” started off with three links and no further links were added. This post provides a place to sound off on this week’s links.

Another totally awesome example of what people with too much time on their hands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Weakest Links: Week of 2 October 2006</title>
		<link>http://www.spinozist.us/2006/10/04/the-weakest-links-week-of-2-october-2006/christian-y-cardall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spinozist.us/2006/10/04/the-weakest-links-week-of-2-october-2006/christian-y-cardall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Y. Cardall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The last edition of The Weakest Links, available on the sidebar under the heading “Temporalia (Week of 28 August),” started off with three links and ended with four. This post provides a place to sound off on this week’s links.

Some lessons al-Qaeda could learn from the Mormons.
A Mormon version of Adam Sandler&#8217;s Hanukkah Song.
These guys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brush with Swedish Gold</title>
		<link>http://www.spinozist.us/2006/10/03/brush-with-swedish-gold/christian-y-cardall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spinozist.us/2006/10/03/brush-with-swedish-gold/christian-y-cardall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Y. Cardall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It was announced today that George F. Smoot&#8212;for whom I worked one summer as an undergraduate at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory&#8212;has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, together with John C. Mather, &#8220;for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.&#8221;

The award honors the scientific harvest of two of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spinozist Take from General Conference, October 2006, Day Two</title>
		<link>http://www.spinozist.us/2006/10/01/the-spinozist-take-from-general-conference-october-2006-day-two/christian-y-cardall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spinozist.us/2006/10/01/the-spinozist-take-from-general-conference-october-2006-day-two/christian-y-cardall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Y. Cardall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are brief first impressions of talks from the second day of General Conference,  to be updated throughout the day.
Sunday Morning Session
President Monson: If we do not have a deep foundation of faith, we will have difficulty withstanding the storms of adversity that will surely come in a life whose purpose is to test [...]]]></description>
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