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	<title>Practical Christian Mysticism</title>
	<link>http://yaholo.net</link>
	<description>"For those who are seeking truth, want to experience God, pondering the meaning of life, and wonder why hot dogs come in packs of ten but the buns in packs of eight." - Yaholo, The Practical Mystic.</description>
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		<title>The Lost Virtue of Temperance &#8211; When Vices Are Good For You</title>
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“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” &#8211; Benjamin Franklin
We humans tend to live in extremes.  Most people who drink, drink to get drunk.  If not, it is because they don’t drink at all.  Most people who smoke, chain smoke packs of cigarettes a day.  The rest of us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/christian-mysticism/the-lost-virtue-of-temperance-when-vices-are-good-for-you/</link>
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		<title>The God Bargain &#8211; When Saints Act Like Pagans</title>
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We are all born pagan.  I realize how harsh that sounds, but just think about it.  Idol worship and superstition come naturally to us.  We quickly develop rituals to help our favorite sports teams have &#8220;good luck&#8221;.  Gamblers blow on dice, lottery players have lucky numbers, and Friday the 13th still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/christian-mysticism/the-god-bargain-when-saints-act-like-pagans/</link>
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		<title>Messiah?&#8230; No Thanks, Already Got One! &#8211; Why We Constantly Look For Saviors, but Hate the One We Got.</title>
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Man wants to be free, but always looks for a king to rule him.  A strange contraction in human nature. The truth is, when things are great and seem to be under our control, we just want to be left alone.  We don’t want anyone to tell us what to do when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/christian-mysticism/messiah-no-thanks-already-got-one-why-we-constantly-look-for-saviors-but-hate-the-one-we-got/</link>
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		<title>Why We Need Religion&#8230; and I Couldn&#8217;t Have Said It Better Myself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a shocker, an article expressing a positive opinion on religion in the NEW YORK TIMES!  Stanley Fish reviews the book &#8220;Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate&#8221; by Terry Eagleton.  In the book, Eagleton argues that science cannot replace religion for the simple reason that science has nothing to do with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/science-and-religion/why-we-need-religion-and-i-couldnt-have-said-it-better-myself/</link>
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		<title>A Lesson from the Wardrobe: Why We Can&#8217;t Go Back.</title>
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As a life-long C.S. Lewis fan, I always enjoy taking a minute and reflecting on the many contributions he made to Christian Mysticism.  I especially enjoy addressing the lessons inferred amidst his fictional writings.  One of my favorite mystical lessons, is the lesson of the wardrobe.  In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe C.S. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/books/a-lesson-from-the-wardrobe-why-we-cant-go-back/</link>
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		<title>Catholisense &#8211; Part 1:  The Need for Moral Idealism</title>
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&#8220;If you want peace, work for justice.” &#8211; Pope Paul VI
“If you want justice, work for chastity.&#8221; &#8211; Pope John Paul II
This begins a serious of articles I have decided to write in defense of the Catholic Church and her controversial teachings in our current post-modern culture.  I have entitled this series “Catholisense” because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/christian-mysticism/catholisense-part-1-the-need-for-moral-idealism/</link>
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		<title>Comparing the Teaching of Jesus to the Tao Te Ching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Roberston has posted a good comparison between the teaching of Jesus and the Tao Te Ching on his blog Christian Mystics.  Here are some excerpts below:
“What does it profit them if they gain the whole world, but lose their souls?” Luke 9:25
“To be proud with wealth and honor is to sow the seeds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/christian-mysticism/comparing-the-teaching-of-jesus-to-the-tao-te-ching/</link>
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		<title>Science and Religion: Richard Dawkins and Father George Coyne share an impressively reasonable discussion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt Stone, on his blog Global Christianity, brought attention to a YouTube posted discussion between Father George Coyne and Richard Dawkins.  This is an amazingly disciplines and reasonable discussion, the likes of which I want to see more of:

Original Post on Matt Stone&#8217;s Blog
Related Post:
How Science and Religion Can Play Nicely Together (And Should!)

		
		
		
		


Technorati [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/science-and-religion/science-and-religion-richard-dawkins-and-father-george-coyne-share-an-impressively-reasonable-discussion/</link>
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		<title>The Gods Are Angry!</title>
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The gods are angry!
Oh, what have we done?
Our doom is coming!
There’s nowhere to run!
We sacrificed every virgin, on an altar so high.
Yet the dark clouds are still building, we are going to die.
We killed all the outsiders, who wandered into our tribe.
Yet the earth is still rumbling, the gods rejected our bribe.
We hung all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/poetry/poetry-funny/the-gods-are-angry/</link>
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		<title>Consumerism  &#8211; How We Got Here, and More Importantly, How We Get the Hell Out</title>
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Veteran readers of my blog know how much I respect and appreciate the efforts of Rev. Billy Talen and the Church of Stop Shopping.  After all, I believe that our currently culture of consumerism is probably on of our biggest hindrances to connecting with God.  Well, recently I posted a contribution to their newly budding forum that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yaholo.net/life-application/consumerism-how-we-got-here-and-more-importantly-how-we-get-the-hell-out/</link>
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