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		<title>Secular Buddhist Podcast</title>
		<link>http://dispirited.org/2013/04/27/secular-buddhist-podcast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidWebster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Podcast interview I did with Ted Meissner at The Secular Buddhist can be heard HERE&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dispirited.org&#038;blog=27010448&#038;post=449&#038;subd=dispiriteddotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Militant Atheists and associated nonsense..</title>
		<link>http://dispirited.org/2013/04/22/militant-atheists-and-associated-nonsense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidWebster</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dispirited.org/?p=439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I see TED has stepped away from the Rupert Sheldrake talk at one if its TedX events.. Then Deepak Chopra and various folk object, etc &#8211; and we finally have a response HERE, that defends TED. I am not a great Fan of TED talks really, but they seem on the ball here. Whatever you think of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dispirited.org&#038;blog=27010448&#038;post=439&#038;subd=dispiriteddotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the promotion of mutual respect and tolerance incompatible with the faith ethos of some schools?</title>
		<link>http://dispirited.org/2013/04/19/is-the-promotion-of-mutual-respect-and-tolerance-incompatible-with-the-faith-ethos-of-some-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidWebster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from IOE London blog: Jonny Scaramanga The Government has repeatedly affirmed its support for faith schools and parents’ right to pass on their religious beliefs. At the same time, standards for independent schools, announced last year, require the promotion of “mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs”. Has the government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dispirited.org&#038;blog=27010448&#038;post=433&#038;subd=dispiriteddotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sokal-style hoax by an anti-religious philosopher</title>
		<link>http://dispirited.org/2013/02/26/432/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidWebster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Why Evolution Is True: I'm a big fan of Dr. Maarten Boudry, a Belgian philosopher who's a research fellow in the Department of Philosopy &#38; Moral Sciences of Ghent University.  Boudry has spent a lot of time showing that religion and science are incompatible, attacking the distinction between "metaphysical naturalism" and "methodological naturalism" [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dispirited.org&#038;blog=27010448&#038;post=432&#038;subd=dispiriteddotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual But Not Religious &#8211; in the news&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://dispirited.org/2013/02/17/spiritual-but-not-religious-in-the-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidWebster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently talked to some students about the term &#8216;Spiritual But Not Religious &#8216; and my notes may, or may not, be of interest.. They are below. You may notice that I take a much more measured tone than in the book.. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- We began by wondering:  Who are the SBNR? *         We don’t wholly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dispirited.org&#038;blog=27010448&#038;post=425&#038;subd=dispiriteddotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tapestry Interview, SOAS and more..</title>
		<link>http://dispirited.org/2013/02/09/tapestry-interview-soas-and-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidWebster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a quiet-ish time of late &#8211; going back to work full-time has meant being really busy - Dispirited seems to have seen a sudden burst of activity.. Two weeks ago, I spoke to Gloucestershire Philosophical Society, partly about the book &#8211; but mainly about issues of &#8216;happiness&#8217; &#8211; some of which overlapped with my post [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dispirited.org&#038;blog=27010448&#038;post=421&#038;subd=dispiriteddotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dispirited interview with Tricycle Magazine</title>
		<link>http://dispirited.org/2013/01/24/dispirited-interview-with-tricycle-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidWebster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dispirited interview with Tricycle Magazine I know I am overdue to post about the SBNR issues with studies and mental health &#8211; and that&#8217;ll appear.. But till then &#8211; here&#8217;s an interview (entitled &#8216;The Dangers of Spirituality&#8221;) that I did with the Buddhist magazine Tricycle&#8217;s website: http://www.tricycle.com/blog/dangers-spirituality-interview-david-webster <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dispirited.org&#038;blog=27010448&#038;post=415&#038;subd=dispiriteddotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Census &#8211; Religion Data available</title>
		<link>http://dispirited.org/2012/12/11/2011-census-religion-data-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidWebster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2011 Religious Data from the Census is out.. See http://philosvids.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/2011-census-religion-data/ for a link&#8230; I am sure there is much more to say about it &#8211; The headline at the British Humanist&#8217;s website is: Census results show huge shift in cultural identity from Christianity to no religion. I will get round to it&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dispirited.org&#038;blog=27010448&#038;post=410&#038;subd=dispiriteddotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual But Not Religious (again)</title>
		<link>http://dispirited.org/2012/12/10/spiritual-but-not-religious-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidWebster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok &#8211; I have said things on this topic again &#8211; but perhaps I might be clearer. I haven&#8217;t object to the term &#8220;Spiritual But Not Religious&#8217; out of pique, or disrespect: but because I am not sure it makes sense.. Of course, we can (as I say in the book) see it as a form [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dispirited.org&#038;blog=27010448&#038;post=404&#038;subd=dispiriteddotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A toolkit for spotting prejudice</title>
		<link>http://dispirited.org/2012/11/24/403/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidWebster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Another angry woman: Have you ever read something and thought, "that's prejudiced", but without the ability to put your finger on exactly how? There are speeches and writings and quotes which seem sexist, racist, ableist, homophobic or transphobic, yet there is no exact quote that can be pulled out and easily called out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dispirited.org&#038;blog=27010448&#038;post=403&#038;subd=dispiriteddotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Punching spiritual people in the face: my interview with David Webster</title>
		<link>http://dispirited.org/2012/11/17/402/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidWebster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from SLOTHROP: Dave Webster and I have been crawling toward a finished interview for months. He's the author of ‘Dispirited: How Contemporary Spirituality makes us Stupid, Selfish and Unhappy’ — which I reviewed when it came out. I said, at the time, that the book "manages very quickly to demonstrate the necessity for an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dispirited.org&#038;blog=27010448&#038;post=402&#038;subd=dispiriteddotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning about the paranormal from a carton of eggs</title>
		<link>http://dispirited.org/2012/11/07/401/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidWebster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Thoughts on Psychology: I'm sometimes asked how psychology might explain events that seem so strange that they suggest the existence of paranormal activity, for example when you're thinking about a friend and how you haven't talked to them for a while, and then the phone rings and it's them. These events seem so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dispirited.org&#038;blog=27010448&#038;post=401&#038;subd=dispiriteddotorg&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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