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	<title>Ralph Scherer</title>
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	<description>Just the babblings of a happy-go-lucky born-again Christian atheist. But that could change. Or could it? Maybe…. I doubt it.</description>
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		<title>Delusions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I hear people say that they do not just believe in God but experience God or Christ as a watchful presence in their lives, I am not impressed with the reality of their faith. Rather, I fear for their sanity. They are cultivating a delusion. Even if there is a God, what else is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ralphscherer.com/blog2/2010/03/01/delusions/</link>
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		<title>More on toleration.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pilgrims and the Puritans did not come here to establish religious toleration. On the contrary, they wanted to be in a place where they could be tolerated, not tolerant. The founding fathers must have known this well because the First Amendment calls for the separation of church(es) and state.
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		<link>http://ralphscherer.com/blog2/2010/02/18/more-on-toleration/</link>
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		<title>A brief history of Xian tolerance.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First the Anabaptists, then the Quakers, the Shakers, the Ranters, the Levellers, the Diggers, the Calvinists and the Methodists (not to mention the non-denominational institutions or churches). Martin Luther must be &#8220;rolling in his grave.&#8221; So many sects and the process has not stopped nor is it showing any signs of slowing down. The Thirty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ralphscherer.com/blog2/2010/02/18/a-brief-history-of-xian-tolerance/</link>
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		<title>Toleration?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where does toleration come from? If I accept your right to believe differently from me, but I think I believe the truth and you think you believe the truth, then what has become of truth? And then what are the implications of toleration for &#8220;truth&#8221;? So many questions, so few answers.
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		<link>http://ralphscherer.com/blog2/2010/02/11/toleration/</link>
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		<title>Social Interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What would make you give up your position on god, and how would you feel about it?
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		<link>http://ralphscherer.com/blog2/2010/02/09/social-interview/</link>
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		<title>Random Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The observer has been observed and now the observed has become the observer. And so it goes.
However, if the observer wants to be observed then by definition he/she gives up his observerhood. 
I suppose it&#8217;s possible to be observed while observing. I guess it all depends on your power of observation.
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		<link>http://ralphscherer.com/blog2/2010/02/03/random-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>Happiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[True happiness is being an unwitting sower of jealousy.  
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		<link>http://ralphscherer.com/blog2/2010/01/31/happiness/</link>
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		<title>Irreligious</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe nothing we do now will matter in a thousand years, but IF SO, then it also would seem that nothing that will matter in a thousand years makes a difference now, either. In particular, it doesn&#8217;t make a difference now that in a thousand years, what we do now won&#8217;t matter. &#8211;JAP
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		<link>http://ralphscherer.com/blog2/2010/01/22/irreligious/</link>
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		<title>Random Thanksgiving thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life is momentary. There are happy moments and sad moments and to experience life to its fullest you must stay in the moment. I think I understand what all the monks meditating out there are doing. They are making a valiant effort to stay in the present moment.
 I submit this is impossible to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ralphscherer.com/blog2/2009/11/26/random-thanksgiving-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>I submit for your edification&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It takes more energy for good to reside in evil than it does for evil to reside in good.
&#8230;. and not bad is better than pretty good.
  
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		<link>http://ralphscherer.com/blog2/2009/10/22/i-submit-for-your-edification/</link>
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