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		<title>When All Else Fails, Threaten To Punch The Atheist</title>
		<link>http://www.smugbaldy.com/2008/02/29/when-all-else-fails-threaten-to-punch-the-atheist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video is priceless. Here we have an Atheist and a True Believer having a calm, rational discussion about belief, knowledge, epistemology, and the existence of God. Of course, it&#8217;s rational up to the point at which the caller cannot contain his righteous fury.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This video is priceless.  Here we have an Atheist and a True Believer having a calm, rational discussion about belief, knowledge, epistemology, and the existence of God.  Of course, it&#8217;s rational up to the point at which the caller cannot contain his righteous fury.  </p>
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		<title>Miracle Toast?</title>
		<link>http://www.smugbaldy.com/2008/02/15/miracle-toast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Satire and Comment we have the miraculous story of an atheist that found an image of Big Bang in piece of toast: &#8220;I was just about to spread the butter when I noticed a fairly typical small hole in the bread surrounded by a burnt black ring. However, the direction and splatter patterns of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img id="myimg" src='http://www.smugbaldy.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/tn_toast.jpg' alt='Holy Toast' />From Satire and Comment we have the miraculous story of an <a href="http://www.satireandcomment.com/0208toast.html" target="_blank">atheist that found an image of Big Bang in piece of toast</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was just about to spread the butter when I noticed a fairly typical small hole in the bread surrounded by a burnt black ring. However, the direction and splatter patterns of the crumbs as well as the changing shades emanating outwards from this black hole were very clearly similar to the chaotic-dynamic non-linear patterns that one would expect following the big bang&#8221;. &#8220;It&#8217;s the beginning of the world&#8221; he added excitedly.</p></blockquote>
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<p>This follows on the heels of other, arguably less miraculous instances of finding an image of <a href="http://www.myfoxcolorado.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=5742379&#038;version=1&#038;locale=EN-US&#038;layoutCode=TSTY&#038;pageId=1.1.1&#038;sflg=1" target="_blank">Christ trapped inside the rings of a tree</a>, the <a href="http://www.myfoxcolorado.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=5642906&#038;version=1&#038;locale=EN-US&#038;layoutCode=TSTY&#038;pageId=1.1.1" target="_blank">Virgin Mary</a> seared into a pancake, or a <a href="http://www.myfoxcolorado.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=5556731&#038;version=1&#038;locale=EN-US&#038;layoutCode=TSTY&#038;pageId=1.1.1" target="_blank">freshly crucified Jesus within a Yukon Gold potato</a>.</p>
<p>Sources close to the almighty remain uncharacteristically skeptical of the apparition, however, saying:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Lord quite regularly makes Himself known through cleverly disguised imagery within various foodstuffs or in other seemingly random patterns of light and shadow, but he would never endorse the Big Bang theory without first giving us a sign.  This latest visitation is probably the work of demonic forces, or possibly just someone imagining something.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;ve seen the toast, and it fills you with a sense of such beatific secularism that there&#8217;s no denying this is a sign from the universe that absolutely no divine intervention was required to create it.    </p>
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		<title>Pat Condell: No More Religious Appeasment</title>
		<link>http://www.smugbaldy.com/2007/09/10/pat-condell-no-more-religious-appeasment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pat Condell goes on a nice rant about where the limits of Cultural Sensitivity should be in Europe. The take home message? Europeans should stand up and protest the creeping &#8220;Islamization&#8221; of their culture, and do so to show Americans that they really do have some collective backbone.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pat Condell goes on a nice rant about where the limits of Cultural Sensitivity should be in Europe.  The take home message?  Europeans should stand up and protest the creeping &#8220;Islamization&#8221; of their culture, and do so to show Americans that they really do have some collective backbone.</p>
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		<title>Atheist Postal Service &#8211; When It Absolutely, Positively, Has to be there After the Rapture</title>
		<link>http://www.smugbaldy.com/2007/01/31/atheist-postal-service-when-it-absolutely-positively-as-to-be-there-after-the-rapture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing fundamentalist Christians need to be concerned with, especially as the End Times near, is how to communicate with their friends and loved ones after the rapture. Well, according to The Post-Rapture Post, it&#8217;s now possible for Christians to send cards and letters to those they leave behind after Christ takes them home. How [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One thing fundamentalist Christians need to be concerned with, especially as the End Times near, is how to communicate with their friends and loved ones after the rapture.  Well, according to <a href="http://www.postrapturepost.com" target="_blank">The Post-Rapture Post</a>, it&#8217;s now possible for Christians to send cards and letters to those they leave behind after Christ takes them home.  How will they do it? Easy, they&#8217;re atheists:</p>
<blockquote><p>Just write your letter and it will be hand-delivered immediately following the exodus of the pure from the Earth. But you must be thinking to yourself, &#8220;How can the letters be delivered after the Rapture?&#8221; The answer is simple. <strong>The creators of this site are Atheists.</strong> That&#8217;s right, we don&#8217;t believe in God. How else would we be able to deliver your correspondence after the Rapture? </p></blockquote>
<p>This site is pretty tongue in cheek, but I must admit, I thought it was pretty funny, until I saw the &#8220;Told You So&#8221; cards in the online store.  Now I&#8217;m worried that my mom will want one.</p>
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