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	<title>Say Hello to my Little Friend</title>
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		<title>Back in the old country</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone &#8211; I&#8217;m back in New Zealand. I&#8217;m in Auckland, and will fly back home to Dunedin tomorrow evening. There are a lot of people to be thanked for the many blessings I&#8217;ve been able to enjoy recently. For my time at the ESPR conference at Oxford, my thanks goes out to Aku Visala [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A simple explanation of the moral argument</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the moral argument]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently there has been some discussion here about the moral argument for theism, with a couple of correspondents announcing with great certainty (but unfortunately little else) that the argument is just terrible. I beg to differ. Today I appeared on an episode of the Unbelievable? radio show, hosted by Justin Brierley (actually we did two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does the moral argument point to a benevolent God?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stephen law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the moral argument]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Philosophers who defend theism by making use of the classical arguments or some variation thereof (like the cosmological argument, the teleological and fine tuning arguments and the moral argument) have always been realistic about what each of these arguments, if sound, establishes. The cosmological argument establishes that the universe has a cause with certain features [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glenn Appearing on the Unbelievable Radio Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[public lectures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are just four more sleeps until I fly out for the UK to take part in the annual conference of the European Society for the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Oxford. I&#8217;m excited! Adding to the excitement, another appointment has come up. Some of you may be familiar with the Unbelievable? radio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving to a new server</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey everyone, my host has gotten a new, bigger and more powerful server. This site is about to be moved over to the new server. Anything you post int he next 24 hours may be lost, so it&#8217;s probably best to wait a day before posting anything. If you liked this post, feel free to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Lecture: The New Atheism, Science and Morality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public Lecture: The New Atheism, Science and Morality As you know (and a number of you have very kindly supported me in the endeavour), shortly I&#8217;ll be flying off to Oxford for a conference at which I&#8217;ll be speaking (more on that another time). When I get back I have a couple of speaking engagements [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Debate Review: Flannagan V Bradley</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[angry atheism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divine commands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meta-ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Is God the Source of Morality?” Is it rational to ground right and wrong in commands issued by God? Matthew Flannagan (left, affirmative) vs Raymond Bradley (right, negative) University of Auckland, 2nd of August 2010 Few subjects in philosophy are more interesting to me than the meta-ethical question of what makes any moral claims true. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where I stand on legal same sex marriage</title>
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		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/where-i-stand-on-legal-same-sex-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1988</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I posted a couple of blog entries that made reference to homosexuality. I didn’t seek the subject out, it just popped up in current affairs due to the publicity surrounding a couple of recent studies. However, writing those two blog posts reminded me that I haven’t actually written a blog entry laying out what [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Work related deaths and causation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You’d think that people with an interest in producing studies with a statistical basis would understand simple principles like this one: Correlation does not indicate causation. However, researchers in Southampton, England, have thrown such fundamentals to the wind, and as a result we now know that “What a person does for a living could play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What decent physicalism is not</title>
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		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/what-decent-physicalism-is-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physicalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My current lunch time reading project is the 2007 book by Nancey Murphy and Warren Brown, Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will (Oxford University Press). Although I’ve only just broached the first chapter, I can already tell that I’m really going to enjoy it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study links homosexuality and childhood abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent University of Otago study has indicated that people who suffered sexual abuse or rape as children are more likely than others to later identify as either homosexual or bisexual. Otago University researcher associate professor Elisabeth Wells has looked at the connection between adverse childhood events and sexuality and found those who experienced trauma [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Downtime &#8211; The long story</title>
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		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/downtime-the-long-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, we’re up and running again. For those of you who are just glad that the site is up again, there’s no need to read what follows. For those who are curious as to what went wrong, here’s an explanation of why the website, blog and podcast have been unavailable for so long recently. First, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Journal editors, I have five humble requests</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/journal-editors-i-have-five-humble-requests/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/journal-editors-i-have-five-humble-requests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[publishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I submit the following questions/requests/general comments for the consideration of all journal editors out there. Firstly, consider why you are asking people to send two (or even three) printed copies of an article that you might not even accept. You’re running an international journal, and you’re asking people to mail bundles of maybe 30 pages. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Oxford: Nearly there!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 03:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all! Some time ago now I announced that I would be speaking at a conference at the University of Oxford in late August if I could raise the funds. That announcement is HERE. As you can see via the thermometer over on the right hand side, we&#8217;re getting there. A big chunk of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flannagan v Bradley</title>
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		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/flannagan-v-bradley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 03:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Flannagan and Raymond Bradley are to publicly debate the question: &#8220;Is God the Source of Morality?&#8221; Venue: University of Auckland, in “The Centennial” 260 – 098 OGGB (the bottom level of the Business School) on 12 Grafton Rd, Auckland City. Date/time: Monday 2 August from 7-9pm The subject of the debate will be whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuts and Bolts 008: Nominalism</title>
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		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/nuts-and-bolts-008-nominalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[metaphysics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[realism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the “nuts and bolts” series, I explain and discuss some of the fundamental ideas in philosophy (and theology sometimes) that are taken for granted within the discipline, but which might not be very well known to ordinary human beings. This time the subject is nominalism. Do tables exist? Do all red apples (assuming that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Downtime</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For almost the last 24 hours, my site has been inaccessible. I apologise for this. The fault was caused by the dishonest, misleading, underhanded, unfair, greedy and arguably illegal actions of my domain name service provider, Clever Internet. I will not bore you with the details, but I have been busy for most of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matt Flannagan to speak in Georgia</title>
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		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/matt-flannagan-to-speak-in-georgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the 17th to the 23rd of November 2010 the annual conference of the Evangelical Philosophical Society will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, in the USA. This year my good friend and fellow blogger Matt Flannagan will be attending and speaking on &#8220;God and the Genocide of the Canaanites.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the blurb on his talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divine Command Ethics and the Epistemological Objection</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/divine-command-ethics-and-the-epistemological-objection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/divine-command-ethics-and-the-epistemological-objection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divine commands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meta-ethics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1942</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m putting together an article on this subject at the moment, so I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on Divine Command Ethics and the epistemological objection (that’s what I’ve decided to call the objection). Divine command ethics is a cluster of views on ethics, and they all have in common a very close [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>More Billboard Fun</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/more-billboard-fun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/more-billboard-fun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1940</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some observations from Matt Flannagan over at M and M reminded me of the existence of the atheist campaign to evangelise the world through billboards. In honour of that campaign, I suggest launching another, much more important campaign: Any lifeguard who tells me this is sure to put my mind at ease. If you liked [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>131</slash:comments>
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		<title>How the queerness argument (possibly) backfires</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/how-the-queerness-argument-backfires/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/how-the-queerness-argument-backfires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meta-ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nihilism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[queerness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the moral argument]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[J. L. Mackie was famous for defending two claims. Firstly, God doesn’t exist (a claim defended in his book, The Miracle of Theism). Secondly, there are no moral facts (a position called moral nihilism or an error theory of morality, defended in his book, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong). According to Christian thinkers over the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Happy 4th of July 1010</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/happy-4th-of-july-1010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/happy-4th-of-july-1010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independence day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberalism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1918</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 4th of July is American Independence Day, on which Americans celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence (the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand is also interesting, but that’s for another time). It’s one of those days when revisionary political liberals sharpen their pencils and write letters to the editor to try [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dawkins and Scientism</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/dawkins-and-scientism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/dawkins-and-scientism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dawkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scientism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientism, as I am using that term here, is an approach to studying an issue that assumes that if something is a question of fact, then it can (at least very probably) be answered by science. A very strong form of scientism would be logical positivism. Logical positivism, now a largely abandoned perspective, said that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>91</slash:comments>
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		<title>A theological pet peeve</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/theological-pet-peeve/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/theological-pet-peeve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heaven and Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afterlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resurrection]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1885</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of times in recent history I’ve encountered Christians who have used the sentence “you’re going to be dead a lot longer than you’re going to be alive” as a way of referring to the fact that heaven (or hell) is forever. Christians have said it when responding to the popular book, “The Secret.” [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Great Pumpkin Objection</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/the-great-pumpkin-objection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/the-great-pumpkin-objection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Epistemology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alvin Plantinga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[basic beliefs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scepticism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1882</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last podcast episode on Plantinga and properly basic beliefs, I briefly discussed the “Great Pumpkin Objection.” As it’s a subject worthy of a blog post of its own, and given that I know some people prefer things in writing, I thought I’d add a blog entry focused on that objection. Alvin Plantinga has [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Trying to get famous</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/trying-to-get-famous/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/trying-to-get-famous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-promotion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1876</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;. OK, not really famous in general, but at least known by the right people. I&#8217;ve been up to a few things lately, which is why the blog has been fairly quiet. One of the things I&#8217;ve been doing is working on a promo CD. Basically, it&#8217;s a CD that I will be sending out [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>God of the Gaps?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/god-of-the-gaps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/god-of-the-gaps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[god of the gaps]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1865</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some opponents of intelligent design say that because it draws on what is in their view an inevitably theological explanation, it must be a kind of “god of the gaps” way of reasoning. One such critic says that “A theory such as ID posits what is pejoratively known in philosophy as a ‘God of the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Episode 036: Plantinga and Properly Basic Beliefs</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/episode-036-plantinga-and-properly-basic-beliefs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/episode-036-plantinga-and-properly-basic-beliefs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Epistemology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alvin Plantinga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[basic beliefs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1859</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s episode 36, in honour of the recent retirement of Alvin Plantinga as the John O&#8217;Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. It&#8217;s sort of a &#8220;nuts and bolts&#8221; podcast episode on Alvin Plantinga, introducing the listener to his account of belief in God as a properly basic belief &#8211; a belief [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<itunes:duration>55:27</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:subtitle>[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="148" caption="Alvin Plantinga"][/caption]

Here's episode 36, in honour of the recent retirement of Alvin Plantinga as the John O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="148" caption="Alvin Plantinga"][/caption]

Here's episode 36, in honour of the recent retirement of Alvin Plantinga as the John O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. It's sort of a "nuts and bolts" podcast episode on Alvin Plantinga, introducing the listener to his account of belief in God as a properly basic belief - a belief justifiably held, but not held on the basis of evidence or argument.

Enjoy.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:keywords>Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, podcast</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:author>Glenn Peoples</itunes:author>
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		<title>Plantinga on Dualism</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/plantinga-on-dualism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/plantinga-on-dualism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mind/body problem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physicalism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1847</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m in the process of writing the next podcast episode on Alvin Plantinga and his arguments around the idea of belief in God as a properly basic belief. In it, I’m clearly on Plantinga’s side, and I think his work in that area represents a crucial contribution to philosophy of religion (and to epistemology). I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nuts and Bolts 007: The King James Only Movement</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/nuts-and-bolts-007-the-king-james-only-movement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/nuts-and-bolts-007-the-king-james-only-movement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 02:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bible translation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King James Version]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1842</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had an encounter that reminded me of the existence of the “King James Only” movement. Spend a few years intently engaged in serious scholarship in theology and biblical studies, and you could easily forget that the movement is even there, because it’s a movement that is not relevant to such study. You’ll never [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/nuts-and-bolts-007-the-king-james-only-movement/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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		<title>What&#8217;s up?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/whats-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/whats-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1840</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings dear readers. It has been really encouraging of late to see the number of visitors to the site continuing to grow. The last few blog entries on the question of historical evidence outside the New Testament for the existence of Jesus in particular have generated a lot of interest &#8211; the site stats show [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is there no evidence that Jesus even existed? Part 3</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/is-there-no-evidence-that-jesus-even-existed-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/is-there-no-evidence-that-jesus-even-existed-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historical Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scepticism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1835</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the third and final instalment in a short series of blog entries on the discredited but “popular on the internet” belief that not only is Christianity false, but Jesus of Nazareth never even existed at all. In the first part, I looked briefly at the unacceptable and controlling bias when demanding that only [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is there no evidence that Jesus even existed? Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/is-there-no-evidence-that-jesus-even-existed-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/is-there-no-evidence-that-jesus-even-existed-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historical Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scepticism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1828</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I posted a blog entry on the rather radical outlook, held by a fairly slim minority, that not only rejects the truth of Christianity, but goes a step further and says that there literally was no such person as Jesus of Nazareth. One of the lines of reasoning that is used to defend this [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is there no evidence that Jesus even existed? Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/is-there-no-evidence-that-jesus-even-existed-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/is-there-no-evidence-that-jesus-even-existed-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 09:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historical Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scepticism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1820</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like people who cite my work (for the right reasons, that is). People like Joel Watts over at The Church of Jesus Christ. Joel links to my material on the well and truly debunked copy cat theories surrounding the origin of Christianity. According to those theories, Christianity is founded on myth, and the person [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/is-there-no-evidence-that-jesus-even-existed-part-1/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stephen Law on the Cosmological Argument</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/stephen-law-on-the-cosmological-argument/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/stephen-law-on-the-cosmological-argument/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 11:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosmological argument]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stephen law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1810</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the second time in a pretty short space of time that I’ve criticised something said by Stephen Law. I don’t want people to think that I’m picking on him. It’s a coincidence, I swear. I had a book of his out of the library and critiqued his (apparent) claim that Christians who use [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>43</slash:comments>
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		<title>Richard Dawkins and the Beliefs of Children</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/richard-dawkins-and-the-beliefs-of-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/richard-dawkins-and-the-beliefs-of-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 11:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[angry atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dawkins]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1805</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I read a few comments by Richard Dawkins on the phrase “a Christian child” or “a Muslim child” etc. he writes: A phrase like “Catholic child” or “Muslim child” should clang furious bells of protest in the mind, just as we flinch when we hear “One man, one vote.” Children are too young to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>114</slash:comments>
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		<title>2010 Budget: Still punishing the rich</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/2010-budget-still-punishing-the-rich/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/2010-budget-still-punishing-the-rich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 13:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We live in a world of slogans. The title of this blog is a slogan (and a delibrately provocative one). Just recently, the 2010 budget was announced by the National led government. Well before it was announced, people (well, some people, namely opponents of National and supporters of the opposition) were harping on about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t get a PhD</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/dont-get-a-phd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/dont-get-a-phd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 12:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[career]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1795</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You might read the title of this blog entry and think that I’m kidding. Well, I’m being intentionally provocative I’ll grant, but I’m not kidding. Every now and then someone asks me if I would recommend that they go ahead and get a PhD in philosophy or theology. As rule of thumb, I wouldn’t. Why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Philosopher&#8217;s Stone</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/the-philosophers-stone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/the-philosophers-stone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 08:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[career]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1792</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a message that I have sent out to a number of email lists of philosophy graduates and faculty: I&#8217;m looking at establishing a New Zealand based online peer reviewed journal of philosophy called The Philosopher&#8217;s Stone. As far as I am aware this would be the first such journal based in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kalam: Does anything at all come into existence?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/kalam-does-anything-at-all-come-into-existence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/kalam-does-anything-at-all-come-into-existence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 11:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[angry atheism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1782</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The kalam cosmological argument is a version of the argument from first causes. It is part of a philosophical case for the existence of God, and goes like this: Whatever begins to exist has a cause of its existence (This is the major premise) The universe began to exist (This is the minor premise) Therefore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking endorsements</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/seeking-endorsements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/seeking-endorsements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 11:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[career]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1777</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings readers (and listeners). I have a request. It&#8217;s no secret that I&#8217;m trying to land a teaching job at a university, or a role that makes use of my training and abilities. To that end, I&#8217;m putting together a CD that I&#8217;ll be sending out to organisations and colleges. I&#8217;m requesting something that I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newcomb’s Paradox: One Box or Two?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/newcombs-paradox-one-box-or-two/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/newcombs-paradox-one-box-or-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 08:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decisions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paradox]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following scenario represents Newcomb’s paradox (non-relevant details may have been changed): I want you to imagine that there exists a person called The Predictor. He predicts human decisions, and has always gotten it right. Due to his legendary status, some say he’s a man, others a machine, others an angel. One thing everyone is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lottery Fallacy Fallacy</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/the-lottery-fallacy-fallacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/the-lottery-fallacy-fallacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 10:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classical apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teleology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1766</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some arguments are like mosquitoes. They get slapped and well and truly squashed – unambiguously defeated in plain sight for all to see, obviously crushed. The smeared body is witnessed. But then as soon as you try to relax again, that familiar whining sound fades in again. You think, Didn’t I just squash you? Yes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education and Morality: Are smarter people more virtuous?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/education-and-morality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/education-and-morality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 00:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog entry was prompted by a recent Facebook conversation. A friend of mine was remarking that she had just watched the movie The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, which is set amidst Hitler’s notorious “final solution” in Nazi Germany. Understandably, she found the movie upsetting, and she wondered (out loud) how people could bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A New Euthyphro&#8221; is published</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/a-new-euthyphro-is-published/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/a-new-euthyphro-is-published/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divine command theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthyphro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meta-ethics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1756</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My paper &#8220;A New Euthyphro&#8221; has been published by the journal Think: Philosophy for Everyone (a journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy) volume 9, issue 25. Think is an enjoyable  journal featuring presentations of complex philosophical issues in a stripped-down digestable way for a wider audience than just those with graduate degrees in philosophy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are churches charities?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/are-churches-charities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/are-churches-charities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[churches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion in the public square]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting discussion broke out over at M and M recently about a guest post by bethyada on whether or not the tax exempt status of churches directly costs taxpayers. I’ll let his piece speak for itself and won’t really get into the actual subject of it, because in the comments section a different issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 035: Sam Harris, Science and Morality</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/episode-035-sam-harris-science-and-morality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/episode-035-sam-harris-science-and-morality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1709</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Episode 35 is an analysis of a recent talk given by Sam Harris on science and human values. The talk was part of a TED conference, and you can see part 1 here. Harris thinks that he has argued that moral facts are actually scientific facts. I think he has failed, and here I offer [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:duration>46:28</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:subtitle>Episode 35 is an analysis of a recent talk given by Sam Harris on science and human values. The talk was part of a TED ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Episode 35 is an analysis of a recent talk given by Sam Harris on science and human values. The talk was part of a TED conference, and you can see part 1 here. Harris thinks that he has argued that moral facts are actually scientific facts. I think he has failed, and here I offer an explanation of how I think he has failed. In brief, I think his entire presentation is an exercise in circular reasoning.

Harris has a new book on the subject, The Moral Landscape, which is to be released later this year. If you'd like to order a copy, please use this link and the Book Depository will look kindly on me.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:keywords>Ethics, Philosophy, atheism, podcast</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:author>Glenn Peoples</itunes:author>
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		<title>Abortion, “Right Wing Violence” and the Media</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/abortion-right-wing-violence-and-the-media/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/abortion-right-wing-violence-and-the-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bias]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people – generally those who openly identify with what is nebulously called “the left,” think it’s an old chestnut that there’s a “liberal bias” in mainstream media. That claim, they might suppose, is just a case of whining conservatives who don’t like the media telling it like it is. Anyone can pontificate on generalities. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m such a cynic</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/why-im-such-a-cynic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/why-im-such-a-cynic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miracles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scepticism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1696</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I blogged to remind people that in spite of the fact that I&#8217;m more than a little sceptical, jaded and cynical about people who claim that they know of a miracle that has occurred, I believe that they can and do happen. The case of Duane Miller is powerful testimony to that. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming up&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/coming-up-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/coming-up-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to put in some serious hours over the next few days and work on the next podcast episode. I haven&#8217;t picked a title yet, but it&#8217;s going to be about science and morality, or more specifically, whether or not there&#8217;s a basis of morality in science. By &#8220;morality&#8221; I do not mean to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antony Flew 1923-2010</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/antony-flew-dies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/antony-flew-dies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the true giants of philosophy of the last 100 years, Antony Garrard Newton Flew has passed away at the good age of 87. The eighth of April 2010 was his last day. He was best known during most of his academic career as a truly intellectually respectable proponent of what is sometimes called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miracles happen</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/miracles-happen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/miracles-happen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miracles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scepticism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1675</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the appropriate sense, I am a sceptic (and no, my American friends, I did not misspell that). Some people claim to be sceptics when all they really mean (or at least all they accurately convey) is that they are passionately devoted to the thesis that God doesn’t exist and religion is bunk. They’re not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shroud of Turin: What&#8217;s your take?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/the-shroud-of-turin-whats-your-take/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/the-shroud-of-turin-whats-your-take/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discoveries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historical Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shorud of turin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1670</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may have heard, after ten years behind closed doors, the Shroud of Turin is about to go on display. The book I’m reading at the moment, The Jesus Legend by Paul Eddy and Greg Boyd has had me thinking a lot about discussions over the historicity of Jesus and his death and resurrection, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sceptics on Christians on Homosexuality</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/sceptics-on-christians-on-homosexuality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/sceptics-on-christians-on-homosexuality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad arguments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I spotted a (now inactive) comic called Cectic. Here’s how the author, Rudiz Muiznieks, describes his comic: Cectic is the user manual for your brain, in comic-form. It was originally published every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but real-life interceded, and as of November 2008 was only published (approximately) once every few weeks on Sundays. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet Monk retires, for now</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/the-internet-monk-retires-for-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/the-internet-monk-retires-for-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who might have occasionally read the enjoyable and insightful blog, The Internet Monk, will be saddened to know that the Internet Monk himself, Dennis Michael Spencer, passed away recently, on the 5th of April 2010 in Oneida Kentucky, aged 53, after battling cancer. Rest in peace.]]></description>
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		<title>Matt Flannagan, advisor to Bill Craig</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/matt-flannagan-advisor-to-bill-craig/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/matt-flannagan-advisor-to-bill-craig/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Props go out to Matt Flannagan. For those who don&#8217;t subscribe to William Lane Craig&#8217;s newsletter from Reasonable Faith, it&#8217;s worth doing. I&#8217;ve read it with interest for a couple of years now. In the last one, Craig makes some comments on his debate with atheist philosopher Michael Tooley, and whose name should pop up? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 034: On Original Sin</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/episode-034-on-original-sin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/episode-034-on-original-sin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[original sin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1657</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Time to go to Sunday School. I was prompted to write this one just because the doctrine of original sin is one that I have never personally heard a sermon on in all the churches that I have attended. Now that&#8217;s not to say that these churches reject the idea, but it does mean that [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:duration>42:49</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:subtitle>Time to go to Sunday School. I was prompted to write this one just because the doctrine of original sin is one that I have ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Time to go to Sunday School. I was prompted to write this one just because the doctrine of original sin is one that I have never personally heard a sermon on in all the churches that I have attended. Now that's not to say that these churches reject the idea, but it does mean that for a lot of Christians, they haven't been directly taught about it. I don't want to presume to teach people stuff they already know, but at the same time I thought it couldn't hurt to do my part to make sure that Christians actually understand their theological heritage. So here's my take on the doctrine of original sin.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:keywords>Theology / Biblical Studies, podcast</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:author>Glenn Peoples</itunes:author>
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		<title>What were they thinking? Romans 12:1</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/what-were-they-thinking-romans-121/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/what-were-they-thinking-romans-121/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What were they thinking?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bible translation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biblical studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Testament Studies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then when I’m looking at a particular passage of Scripture I’ll come across a verse, scratch my head and think, “what were they thinking”? I don’t mean the author, I mean those responsible for the translation. Now I’m not the world’s greatest Hebrew or Greek scholar by any means, so I’m not [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>I am not impressed by claims about the &#8220;pay gap&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/i-am-not-impressed-by-the-pay-gap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/i-am-not-impressed-by-the-pay-gap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender issues]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1649</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I heard someone today mention the fact that “women get paid less than men.” I threw up in my mouth just a little. I think that when it comes to hot button issues like gender pay equality, some people switch their brain off and go into cliché mode. The fact that the National led government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easter: The Mission is the Message</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/easter-the-mission-is-the-message/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/easter-the-mission-is-the-message/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 09:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal theology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1646</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At some point in your life you’ve probably heard a sentiment like this expressed by people who don’t regard themselves as Christians at all: “Well I’m not really into the whole religion thing, but you’ve got to respect the teaching of Jesus. What a good man!” This nasty business of dying for sins, holiness, judgement, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophy of Mind and the &#8220;Hyperpreterist&#8221; controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/philosophy-of-mind-and-the-hyperpreterist-controversy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/philosophy-of-mind-and-the-hyperpreterist-controversy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preterism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resurrection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soul]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1623</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I also published this blog entry over at the Preterist Blog. I’m under no illusions about the fact that my view on the mind-body problem is a minority view in the history of Christian thought. I’m a physicalist. This puts me in the minority because, as well known Christian philosopher of mind William Hasker (himself [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The BSA, the ASA and “good taste”</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/the-bsa-the-asa-and-good-taste/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/the-bsa-the-asa-and-good-taste/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal theology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1617</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here in New Zealand we have a thing called the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA). Their mission statement is that they will “Support fairness and freedom in broadcasting through impartial complaints determination, effective research and informing stakeholders.” I don’t know why they call it supporting freedom – perhaps it sounds nice – but basically what they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Making of an Atheist (Review)</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/the-making-of-an-atheist-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/the-making-of-an-atheist-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[angry atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scepticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skepticism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[James S. Spiegel, The Making of an Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief (Chicago: Moody, 2010), 141 pages including notes. One of the most endearing features of James Spiegel’s new book, The Making of an Atheist, is that it is quite short. You might think I’m kidding, or that this is a slight on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He makes over 130K</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/he-makes-over-130k/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/he-makes-over-130k/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is Trevor Mallard, a rather vocal member of Parliament, a Labour MP sitting in opposition. Here he is on a normal day&#8217;s work. This is how he spends a lot of time. Just check Youtube and you&#8217;ll see that this is him on a good day. He is more civil in this clip than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion and Education &#8211; What has actually been shown?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/religion-and-education-what-has-actually-been-shown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/religion-and-education-what-has-actually-been-shown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scepticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skepticism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1597</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while I either read or hear an atheist tell people, as though to make atheism sound like a more intellectually plausible position, that there is a measurable connection between education and atheism. In short, the message is that the more educated you are, the more likely you are to be an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quiet on the home front</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/quiet-on-the-home-front/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/quiet-on-the-home-front/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1594</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sure, things are quiet now, but just wait. A few things are happening over the next couple of days. First, I&#8217;m at work writing the next podcast episode which (sans some sort of hectic last minute change) is on the subject of original sin. It&#8217;s a bit like a &#8220;nuts and bolts&#8221; blog, only it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreigners may apply, but should not expect to succeed</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/foreigners-may-apply-but-should-not-expect-to-succeed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/foreigners-may-apply-but-should-not-expect-to-succeed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[universities]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just completed an application for a lecturing role at a University in the UK (no need to mention which one). The section on employing people from overseas was not encouraging. Specifically, here&#8217;s what it said about applicants from outside the EEA: If you are applying from outside the European Economic Area, the University will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The right to protest</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/the-right-to-protest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/the-right-to-protest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free speech]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today there was a small protest outside Parliament. No big deal in my books, people protest about stuff all the time. On this occasion, a New Zealand flag was burned. The protestors were pro-republican, and they believe that we should not have a monarch as head of state (hence the burning of the flag, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oxford awaits</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/oxford-awaits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/oxford-awaits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion in the public square]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speaking engagements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got some good news today. A few months ago I told you that there was a conference coming up this year that I&#8217;d like to take part in. Well, I&#8217;ve been chosen to present a paper at Merton College at the University of Oxford, as part of the 18th Conference of the European Society [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>2 Corinthians 12 – an “out of body” experience?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/2-corinthians-12-an-out-of-body-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/2-corinthians-12-an-out-of-body-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apostle Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Testament Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physicalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soul]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I&#8217;m familiar with the view that the Apostle Paul is relating an &#8220;out of body experience&#8221; at the outset of 1 Corinthians 12, I&#8217;m pretty sure that he is not. That&#8217;s partly because I&#8217;m a physicalist and I don&#8217;t think that such things are even possible, but it&#8217;s also because the evidence for this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auckland beckons</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/auckland-beckons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1562</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I live in the wrong part of the country. Dunedin is lovely, don&#8217;t get me wrong. However there are opportunities of a whole range of sorts that I am missing because of where I live. I won&#8217;t go into all the details of that, just trust me. We&#8217;ve decided that we should move to Auckland. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixed it for you</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/fixed-it-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/fixed-it-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[angry atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dawkins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I spotted Richard Dawkins&#8217; DVD for sale at richarddawkins.net yesterday. I can&#8217;t believe they let such a whopping typo make it all the way through the production process. I fixed it. If you liked this post, feel free to help support this project. Buy me a beer!]]></description>
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		<title>Full of the Holy Spirit? Show me your internet discussions!</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/full-of-the-holy-spirit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/full-of-the-holy-spirit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holy spirit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1549</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you tell me that you’re a “Spirit filled Christian,” I want to see it. The internet presents a unique opportunity to see this very thing, actually. I don’t care how you seem to be when you’re surrounded by other Christians, the lights are low, the band is playing, your eyes are closed and you’re [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Podcast en route!</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/podcast-en-route-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/podcast-en-route-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK I know it has been a while, but tomorrow I will start writing the next podcast episode. The subject will be the doctrine of original sin. Hopefully it will be finished within the next week or so. If you liked this post, feel free to help support this project. Buy me a beer!]]></description>
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		<title>The Peanut Butter Argument Against Evolution?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/the-peanut-butter-argument-against-evolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad arguments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creationism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear creationists, Please don&#8217;t ever ever ever do this again. Thanks. If you liked this post, feel free to help support this project. Buy me a beer!]]></description>
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		<title>John Key on the Anti-Smacking law change: Don&#8217;t let him forget</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/john-key-on-the-anti-smacking-law-change-dont-let-him-forget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/john-key-on-the-anti-smacking-law-change-dont-let-him-forget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Social stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smacking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Someone said this on the 22nd of March 2007: The Labour Government has shown utter contempt for New Zealanders and the democratic process with its plan to railroad the anti-smacking bill through Parliament, says National Party Leader John Key. &#8220;The Labour-led Government knows the measure is deeply unpopular, so it plans to act against the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enemies in High Places?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/enemies-in-high-places/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/enemies-in-high-places/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, for the period between twelve and five hours ago, this website and blog may have been difficult (or impossible) for you to access. I&#8217;ve been discussing it with my tech friend, and it appears that somebody with an address locating them at Oxford University (i.e. ending with ox.ac.uk) has been engaging in malicious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the day: John Locke on the punishment for sin</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/quote-of-the-day-john-locke-on-the-punishment-for-sin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/quote-of-the-day-john-locke-on-the-punishment-for-sin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heaven and Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[annihilationism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Locke]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1479</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the day, from John Locke: Death then entered, and showed his face, which before was shut out, and not known. So St. Paul, Rom. v. 19, “By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin,” i.e. a state of death and mortality : and, 1 Cor. xv. 22, “In Adam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catalyst Books</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/catalyst-books/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/catalyst-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1473</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I received this message today, and thought I would pass it on for the benefit of my New Zealand readers. The message comes from Catalyst. We are delighted to announce the launch of Catalyst Books today. Catalyst books is a New Zealand initiative enabling students and graduates to find and purchase quality books from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuts and Bolts 006: What is Dualism?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/nuts-and-bolts-006-what-is-dualism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/nuts-and-bolts-006-what-is-dualism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuts and bolts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dualism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s the next instalment of the “Nuts and Bolts” series, in which I spell out some of the basic terms and concepts used in the various branches of philosophy and theology. I’ve already written plenty of blog entries (and even a podcast series) on dualism, but a recent online conversation with a couple of Christian [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bus Driver taken to court for defending young girl</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/bus-driver-taken-to-court-for-defending-young-girl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/bus-driver-taken-to-court-for-defending-young-girl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smacking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1460</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hat tip to M and M for bringing this news story to my attention. Remember that controversy over the anti-smacking law? The short story: The law change in New Zealand meant that absolutely any force of any kind used in the discipline of a child (such as a spank, or moving a child by force [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Eat, Drink, and be Merry: 1 Corinthians 15 and Physicalism</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/1-corinthians-15-and-physicalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/1-corinthians-15-and-physicalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heaven and Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afterlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apostle Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Testament Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physicalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resurrection]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1457</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every Christian who decides on a stance to take on the mind-body issue is going to have to live with the fact that there will be certain “problem texts” in the Bible that appear to conflict with the position they take. As a physicalist, I think there is a very small number of such texts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Creeds and Intellectual Integrity</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/on-creeds-and-intellectual-integrity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/on-creeds-and-intellectual-integrity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecclesiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creeds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the Nicene Creed: We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your ad here!</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/your-ad-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/your-ad-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I thought I&#8217;d give this a try. You see that area over to the right where all those buttons are? I want to push those buttons down and I want YOU to be right there, above them. As a way of keeping the bills at this site paid and as a way of promoting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lest we Forget, Loftus</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/lest-we-forget-loftus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/lest-we-forget-loftus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Loftus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of his debate with Dinesh D&#8217;Souza on whether or not the Christian God exists, John Loftus says that even if he didn&#8217;t win, he learned a lot. I asked him if, given his loss (as a few people see it &#8211; including Loftus I think) in this debate, he was still hoping [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>D&#8217;Souza vs Loftus: Does the Christian God exist?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/dsouza-vs-loftus-does-the-christian-god-exist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/dsouza-vs-loftus-does-the-christian-god-exist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Loftus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1436</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the 9th of February 2010 at the University of Illinois (Champagne-Urbana campus) Dinesh D&#8217;Souza debated John Joftus on the question &#8220;Does the Christian God Exist&#8221;? There exists a broad consensus among those who I have read assessing the debate, whether Christian or sceptic (including John Loftus himself). I won&#8217;t tell you what that consensus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics is like a painting</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/ethics-is-like-a-painting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/ethics-is-like-a-painting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethical theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meta-ethics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1432</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine if you will a painting hanging in a large and popular art gallery. Before considering the painting as an artwork, think of its underlying structure as a physical object. The type of basic physical object we start with determines the type of artwork that this will be. It could be a lump of clay [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dissenters: We still know where you live</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/dissenters-we-still-know-where-you-live/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/dissenters-we-still-know-where-you-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Electoral Finance Act 2007 was a real bone of contention when the Labour Government introduced it. The long and short of it was this: It was a way of preventing private citizens and groups from spending however much of their own money they like to encourage people to support political parties or their policies [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Zealand atheists vs free market economics</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/new-zealand-atheists-vs-free-market-economics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/new-zealand-atheists-vs-free-market-economics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A group of zealous atheists in New Zealand have been raising money to run an advertisement campaign: advertisement for &#8211; well nothing, really (quite literally). The campaign was a spinoff from an identical one in the UK where signs declaring the (probable) non-existence of God. They&#8217;ve hit a snag. The company that the group would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Membership vs Faith</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/membership-vs-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/membership-vs-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecclesiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a brief comment on something that just caught my eye and jogged my memory. Every now and then someone points out that affiliation with a Christian church has declined steeply over the last half century in New Zealand. Now, I&#8217;m not the sort of myopic person to think that trends in my own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion and society: Success or failure depends on where you stand</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/religion-and-society-success-or-failure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/religion-and-society-success-or-failure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion in the public square]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Martin Varsavsky, “nothing much” happens when a society gives up religion. Religion does nothing to maintain social order, does not improve standards of justice, doesn&#8217;t help people to be better citizens, and really makes no positive difference on a societal scale. He uses Spain as an example. Now, there’s a certain bias in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Please include a statement of your teaching philosophy, as well as something useful&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/statement-on-teaching-philosophy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/statement-on-teaching-philosophy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1415</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve applied for dozens and dozens of lecturing roles (all unsuccessful of course). Nearly all such applications in the USA (this tends not to be an issue elsewhere) have had a requirement along the lines of &#8220;please send a cover letter, your vitae and a statement of teaching philosophy.&#8221; I relish sending two of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aquinas and his “Moral Argument”</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/aquinas-and-his-moral-argument/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/aquinas-and-his-moral-argument/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aquinas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classical apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the moral argument]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Aquinas is famous for – among other things – his five arguments for Christian theism, arguments called “the five ways” (quinque viae). The first way is the argument from the unmoved mover. The second way is the argument from the first cause (commonly called the cosmological argument). The third way is the argument from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Spiegel&#8217;s &#8220;Blog Tour&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/jim-spiegels-blog-tour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/jim-spiegels-blog-tour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1407</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned not long ago that I had some contact with Jim Spiegel of Taylor University. Jim kindly offered to have a copy of his new book The Making of an Atheist sent to me, and I&#8217;ll be posting a review here. I&#8217;m not alone, actually, and a number of really good blogs on Christian [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Scepticism, Open Mindedness and Mistrust</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/scepticism-open-mindedness-and-mistrust/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/scepticism-open-mindedness-and-mistrust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scepticism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a comment on Facebook today that prompted a memory of something I have thought previously but not written about. So now I am writing about it. Thanks, Facebook! A Christian friend of mine told the world that he is about to read a copy of Richard Dawkins’ book, The God Delusion, that well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luke 23:43 and Soul Sleep</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/luke-2343-and-soul-sleep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heaven and Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eschatology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gospel of Luke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intermediate state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interpretation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Testament Studies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I’ve indicated numerous times, I’m a physicalist. I don’t think that I’m an immortal ghost/soul living inside a body. I think that I’m a physical creature. Long before I encountered philosophy of mind or neuroscience, I became convinced that this is what the Bible teaches, making its teaching on human nature stand out like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisdom and Folly</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/wisdom-and-folly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/wisdom-and-folly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Spiegel recently invited me to check out the blog that he and his wife Amy run. I&#8217;m glad I did. Finding really good, scholarly and yet actually interesting and enjoyable blogs on philosophy, faith and culture and so forth isn&#8217;t easy, and this one is definitely a keeper. Check it out. Jim is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes Dr Pruss it&#8217;s funny, just not in the right way.</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/yes-dr-pruss-its-funny-just-not-in-the-right-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/yes-dr-pruss-its-funny-just-not-in-the-right-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad arguments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dualism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alexander Pruss recently presented this &#8220;fun argument for dualism&#8221; at his blog: (Premise) Our embodiment is universally seen as funny. (Premise, justified inductively by 1) Our embodiment is objectively funny. (Premise) The essence of the funny is incongruity. (Premise) If materialism is true, there is no incongruity in our embodiment. (Premise) If materialism is false, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divine Command Ethics: When will sceptics update their arguments?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/divine-command-ethics-when-will-sceptics-update-their-arguments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/divine-command-ethics-when-will-sceptics-update-their-arguments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[angry atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad arguments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divine command theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meta-ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scepticism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that some online unbelievers have trouble staying up to date with the fields in which they take themselves to be experts. Take Keith Augustine over at the Internet Infidels for example. He believes that he has the divine command theory of ethics (DCT) all sewn up. For some reason, divine command ethics is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 033: In Search of the Soul, Part 5</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/episode-033-in-search-of-the-soul-part-5/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/episode-033-in-search-of-the-soul-part-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physicalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At last, the series ends. Here is part five of the series on the mind/body problem. This episode steps completely away from analytical philosophy and is an overview of some of the biblical material that bears on the subject. Although it&#8217;s a comparatively long episode (just under fifty minutes), it&#8217;s still a very sketchy overview. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<itunes:subtitle>At last, the series ends. Here is part five of the series on the mind/body problem. This episode steps completely away from analytical philosophy and ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>At last, the series ends. Here is part five of the series on the mind/body problem. This episode steps completely away from analytical philosophy and is an overview of some of the biblical material that bears on the subject. Although it's a comparatively long episode (just under fifty minutes), it's still a very sketchy overview. The subject is a large one, and at best I can get the ball rolling and encourage you to look further. Enjoy. :)</itunes:summary>
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