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		<title>Season 2, Episode 55: Uncovering The Jesus Myth, Part 2, With Rene Salm</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We continue our discussion on the historicity of Jesus with Rene Salm, author of The Myth Of Nazareth: The Invented Town Of Jesus. Rene talks about his extensive research into the first century town of Nazareth, and his conclusion that it didn&#8217;t exist.
Before the interview, Eli and Lamar ramble about religious debates on immigration, gay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 54: The Future of Atheist Nexus with Brother Richard Haynes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Haynes, Life Without Faith blogger and director of Atheist Nexus, joins us for a discussion about the future of Atheist Nexus and and the atheist community in general. But, before that, Eli and Lamar talk about Australia&#8217;s atheist prime minister, the secular billboard campaign in North Carolina, the crazy that is Sharron Angle, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 53: Recovering from Religion with Darrel Ray</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Darrel Ray makes his second appearance on Chariots of Iron, almost a full year after our &#8220;Inoculating Against the God Virus&#8221; episode. This time around, Darrel discusses his work doing leadership conferences, his Recovering Religionists organization and everyone&#8217;s favorite fellating, tweaker evangelist Ted Haggard.
Before the interview: Jew on Jew ethnic prejudice, a minor digression [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 52: Uncovering The Jesus Myth, Part 1, With Frank Zindler</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Zindler, author of The Jesus the Jews Never Knew, joins the show for a discussion about the historicity of Jesus; specifically the evidence, or lack of evidence, from often cited Jewish sources. This is the first part of what will become a multi-part series on the historicity of Jesus. Before the interview, Lamar and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 51: Pondering Existence With Roger Nygard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filmmaker, Roger Nygard, joins us to to talk about the big questions and discuss his new documentary, The Nature of Existence. Roger put a questionnaire on his site asking visitors to discuss what they believe, and encourages you all to check it out and give your own answers to life&#8217;s big questions.
Before the interview, Eli [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 50: Teabagging Hutaree: How Political Posturing Is Fomenting Sectarian Militantism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 16:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With our sincere apologies, we bring you our very late, latest episode. Please forgive our tardiness and our wretched sound quality.  When I say wretched sound quality, I mean fucking awful. In this episode, we discuss the Tea Party, Hutaree and America&#8217;s angry political climate. We&#8217;re fortunate enough to be Joined by Brother Richard, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 49.5: Sean Faircloth and the Secular Coalition for America</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2010/04/537</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey folks, if you haven&#8217;t noticed by now, episode 50 is a little late in coming, so we&#8217;re proud to announce the first (and possibly only) half-episode. If you&#8217;ve listened to show 49 you&#8217;ll know that Eli attended the American Atheist Convention in Newark, New Jersey recently. While there he had a chance to sit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 49: Building Atheist Communities The CFI Way</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2010/04/535</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we were very excited to have our buddy Kurt, the co-coordinator of our local CFI chapter in the studio with us to talk about building atheist communities and why he thinks it&#8217;s important. We learned a lot about what the CFI does and how one would go about setting up a CFI affiliate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 48: The Face Of Scientology</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2010/03/533</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2010/03/533#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Larry Anderson, star of the 40 minute Scientology film Orientation, joins Joe and Eli for a rousing conversation about the auditing, e-meters, Battlefield Earth, Cult of Xenu and the money they owe him for services not rendered. But, before the interview, Lamar, Eli and Joe discuss current events; namely, they dish on Glenn Beck, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 47: An Evening With Mr. Deity</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2010/03/528</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Dalton, writer, directer, producer and star of the hit webshow Mr. Deity joins us for a fantastic conversation that spans everything from Battered Species Syndrome to cosmic cheesecake and everything in between (whatever that might be.) We talk a lot about the Mr. Deity show and its cast, some other projects they have done [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 46: The Prophecy Episode Which Was Fortold In Our Last Prophecy Episode</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2010/03/526</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lamar has assembled a toolkit for objectively analyzing the tenability of prophecy. When confronted with a situation in which a prophecy is being used as evidence promoting the validity of a given religion, these guidelines will help you cut through the woo and examine it under the light of reason.
Basically, you&#8217;ll be able to run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 45: Blown for Good, the life and times of the Notorious BFG</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2010/02/521</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We missed you, too!
After a long and mostly unintentional sabbatical, we are back on track with another episode.
We had quite a back log of listener mail this week, so we tried to cover as much of it as possible. We also have an awesome guest this week, consequently: the news is short and the show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 44: The Christmas Counteroffensive</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/12/519</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/12/519#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that very special time of year where we gather &#8217;round the hearth with our friends and loved ones and&#8211;after chasing a hearty meal of C-rations with spiked egg-nog&#8211;we affectionately oil our rifles and adjust the straps on our helmets. Again this year, members of the media and various religious groups have shared with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 43: Creationism Part Deux</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/12/515</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back by popular demand: it&#8217;s an all-Charioteers, no-guest show where we can let our hair down and cuss like accountants on tax day. This week Eli has put together a little discussion about the Creation Worldview Ministries: &#8220;A Primer on the Scientific Reasons that Evolution is Wrong!&#8221; AKA &#8220;30 Things You Can Say To Make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 42: Breaking Our Jesus Glasses</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/11/512</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our guest this week is James &#8220;Jesus Glasses&#8221; Corbett, a California high school teacher who gained quite a bit of notoriety recently when he was taken to court for making &#8220;anti-christian statements&#8221; in the classroom. We had a chance to talk to James and get a better picture of why he was sued and what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 41: The First Noelle — Secular Center Charity</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/11/507</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we are joined by Noelle George, Ambassador Director for AAI and founder of the Secular Center. She talks to us about her charity and shares her tactics for helping to get atheists involved in the community to effect positive change.
In our listener mail this week we talk about what you guys thought about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 40: &#8220;Where do we go from here?&#8221; with Brian Parra</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/10/497</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/10/497#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re joined by Brian Parra, Communications Director for Atheists United and founder of the Ventura Atheists group, to discuss perhaps the biggest question posed to the &#8220;atheist movement&#8221;: what do we do now? It&#8217;s a question that stumps most of us, but Brian has a few ideas you&#8217;ll want to hear. It&#8217;s a hefty show&#8211;weighing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 39: The Post AAI Recap Show with Brother Richard</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/10/491</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Brother Richard joins us as we do the post AAI 2009 convention wrap up. We talk about what we liked about the show as well as what we think could use some improvement and we even toss in some nightmare travel stories to keep things interesting. After three days of booths, talks and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AAI Convention, post-convention thoughts.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/10/489</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/10/489#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[s many of our listeners are aware (and will definitely be aware of after the next show) I spent last weekend at the AAI Convention in Burbank California.  The folks at AAI were nice enough to provide both myself and Joe with press passes for the event, and I'm hoping we make good use of that privilege in the coming weeks. At this point I have heaps of audio to sift through, clean up and edit for use in upcoming shows where we'll cover who the speakers were, what they talked about and what we think about it. Currently Lamar (who was unable to attend) has all the raw audio so he can get himself up to speed. I also took the time to talk to many of the notable attendees about appearing on upcoming shows and was generally met with a positive response.]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 38: Blair Scott, proud to be an American Atheist</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/09/485</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/09/485#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this episode, we talk to Blair Scott, the Alabama State Director for American Atheists. Blair tells us how the American Atheists choose their legal battles and why that&#8217;s important to the overall cause. He also explains what the American Atheists are all about and how you, or your local secular group, can get involved. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 37: All in the Family with Jeff Sharlet</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/09/481</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/09/481#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We get a chance to talk with Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. We talk about the book, but man, we really ran the gamut of topical conversations this week. Religion, politics, sex, Def Leppard&#8211;you know, the basics. Jeff is so knowledgeable about the in&#8217;s and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Season 2, Episode 36: The FIRST ANNIVERSARY EPISODE, with Professor PZ Myers!</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/09/477</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/09/477#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s our first birthday! We&#8217;ve finally reached season 2 and to help us celebrate, we have cephalopod nut, Biologist, educator and outspoken atheist blogger Professor PZ Myers on the show with us to talk about his &#8220;vacation,&#8221; the book he&#8217;s writing, his trip to the Creation Museum, turtle hunting, how he met Richard Dawkins and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 35: The COI2009 so you don&#8217;t forget the code episode</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/08/473</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/08/473#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Atheist Alliance International&#8217;s convention director and Rochester Atheism Examiner Viktor Nagornyy joins us this week to tell us a little bit about their convention in Burbank California beginning on October second. We talk about the cavalcade of speakers that will be in attendance and Viktor even hooks us up with our own SUPER SECRET [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 34: Not My God!</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/08/467</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/08/467#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we have Sarah Trachtenberg with us to discuss the personal stories of atheists. She talks about the book she is writing entitled &#8220;Not My God &#8211; Personal Stories of Atheists in America,&#8221; based upon interviews that she&#8217;s conducting with atheists of various backgrounds from all over the United States. We share a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 33: The Messy Antics of Prophecy</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/07/463</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/07/463#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the news this week: people are compartmentalizing reality again, another love-fest planned to show the Mormons how it&#8217;s done, the &#8220;Religious Right&#8221; needs to start putting its politicians in chastity belts, Orthodox Jews riot because they live in a country with child-welfare laws (and parking lots,) more evidence is found of evolution via natural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 32: The Bible Science Game Show</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/07/461</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/07/461#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s just the boys this week. Yeah, we were thinking that we weren&#8217;t getting enough face time with you guys. It&#8217;s been a long time since we all just hung out without anybody else around. It&#8217;ll be just like old times!
In the news this week: Oklahoma is set to declare that hot man-on-man action contributed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 31: Inoculating Against the God Virus</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/06/454</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/06/454#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Darrel Ray, author of The God Virus, joins us to talk about his book and his group, Recovering Religionists. Our good friend Mark also joined us in Joe&#8217;s absence, and while we definitely missed Joe, it was fun having Mark with us.
We begin the show with a rousing discussion about Pastor Wiley Drake and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 30: Shambling toward Abaddon, towing James Morrow</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/06/447</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/06/447#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we have two time Nebula award and two time World Fantasy Award winning author James Morrow sitting in with us. Quickly, Joe confesses that he is a giant fan boy. There is an awkward silence.
But before it gets too cloying, we go to the news. The fight against Darwinism has moved to South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 29: Socratic Counter-evangelism</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/05/442</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/05/442#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 11:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brother Richard sits in as our guest co-host this week as we discuss the virtues of not knowing a god-damn thing. (Richard is brought in as an expert (ooohh, BURN.))
But first: le news.
The US Military has finally done something right, the Catholic Church is once again stealing headlines for wholesale kiddy diddling, another concerned parent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 28: God hates Nate Phelps</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/05/429</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/05/429#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 11:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nate Phelps, the estranged brother of Shirley Phelps-Roper and the estranged son of Pastor Fred Phelps of the Infamous Westboro Baptist Church sits shotgun with us through the whole show.
In the atheist news segment: VenomfangX&#8217;s recent deportation from the internet has us pondering the complex interplay between insanity, compassion and guilt. Atheists disrespecting the separation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 27: Going to the Chapel</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/04/423</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/04/423#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have the Executive Director of the North Texas Church of Freethought, Zachary Moore, sitting in with us as our co-host this week.
In the news: you guys are all cheap bastards, we can prove it. Yes, that is actually in the news. YOU WILL ANSWER TO GOD FOR YOUR TUCKED IN SHIRT; Egypt takes one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 26: Seventh Day Madventists</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/04/417</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/04/417#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news this week is rich in nuttiness. Accused child killer weeps for head-wear, 26 people get some totally righteous piercings, &#8220;sorry honey, I have a head-ache&#8221; is still the only excuse that is universally acceptable, President Obama baits the trolls and a mid-western pastor draws some thought provoking parallels between the Prince of Peace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 25: Sixteen Points of Inanity</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/03/414</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/03/414#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the news this week: Piloting aircraft via the power of prayer; Diamond Rio: bad band name, worse lyrics; honor killing yourself to save your dad from jail; science > Texas and finally: we discuss the fact that the UK has lost its freaking mind. Not the Irish Posse, though. They are still sharp as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 24: Preaching to the Choir</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/03/408</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/03/408#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we were privileged to have Brother Sam Singleton, Atheist Evangelist co-host with us through the news. We talk about the Catholic&#8217;s soft stand on genocide, the &#8220;reform&#8221; of the Afghani justice system, more good news for people who like it when Muslims stone illiterate rape victims to death, the impending doom of evangelical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 23: The Friendly Charioteers</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/03/352</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/03/352#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Mehta sits in as co-host as we plow through yet another week of ridiculous yet highly entertaining and/or depressing and/or infuriating news. This week: the Catholic Church makes an almost totally unintelligible statement about harm prevention, the UN get&#8217;s on Joe&#8217;s doodoo-list, Richard Dawkins is called out by a guy who was made famous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 22: Not With A Ten-Foot Pole&#8212;Abortion</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/02/347</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/02/347#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a giant disclaimer: Joe had surgery the day before the show and is totally loaded on pain killers for the whole thing. What this means to you is that this show is really NSFW since he drops the F-bomb about once a minute. If you are likely to be offended by a drug addled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 21: Hamming Up The Secular Threat</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/02/343</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/02/343#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s an awesome week for news. Some Christians in the UK do EXACTLY what they accused atheists of doing. &#8220;Bishop Council Nedd&#8221;: is it a name or is it a title? For reals, who knows this? We also discuss how badly a certain Texas school board is about to be sued, the awe-inspiring evil of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 20: O&#8217; Brother Richard Where Art Thou?</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/02/341</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A better title would have been: &#8220;O&#8217; Lamar where art thou?&#8221; because Lamar was maimed in a freak pheasant hunting accident involving a high placed member of the former Bush administration and wasn&#8217;t able to make the show&#8211;but we did have Brother Richard, the world famous former pastor, lifewithoutfaith.com blogger and fearless leader of Atheist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An British Import we could use.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/01/336</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new PR campaign has been launched in the UK, &#8220;Science: So What? &#8211; So everything&#8221;.
It is my sincere hope that Obama and his new administration would strive to bring something akin to this campaign to the US. Ignorance, mistrust and misunderstanding best describe the general population of the United States&#8217; attitudes toward science and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 19: New-Age, Sensitive, Platonic, Colon-Cleansing Tarot Shapes</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/01/328</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LISTEN IN WONDER as we project to you news of the insane, the marvelous and the MILDLY RETARDED! GASP as we spin a tale about the ancient and undeniable wisdom of the Advertising Standards Association. EXPERIENCE explosive vomiting as we relate the sordid details of a doctors visit GONE HORRIBLY WRONG. FEEL the uncontrolled rage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 18: Out Both Ends</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/01/323</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lamar got food poisoning, but we have guest host Bizket joining us. We dumped the main topic this week and went for an all news extravaganza because Lamar took the show notes with him to the bathroom and none of us were brave enough to go in after them.
Al Sharpton elbow-drops religious people, atheists fail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 17: Sickles and Hammers and Bears. OH MY!</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/01/318</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the news this week: the Indiana Star newspaper has some bad news for its christian readership, Oregon proves once again that it is totally awesome and Mississippi proves again that it is a sucking, black hole of iniquity. You will also totally not be shocked by the news that George Bush is STILL a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battle Lines Drawn On Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/01/311</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jews world wide are in a particularly awkward position at the moment. In Italy, local trade unions are calling for a boycott of Jewish made goods; a move criticized by politicos as wrongheaded for the fact that they are Italian Jews and not Israeli&#8217;s. Meanwhile, in Britain, pro-Israeli ralliers clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters. The ralliers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psst&#8230; your agenda is showing.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/01/306</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve heard it before but a recent comic nabbed by PZ Myers over on Pharyngula makes it more clear than ever. The attempts by biblical literalists are not just aimed at defending their precious scripture but at undermining science and the public&#8217;s trust of science at its very core.
This is not some pot shot &#8220;we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 16: Riech and Roll</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/01/302</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/01/302#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As usual, we begin with the news: Atheists and &#8220;The War on Inagural Addresses,&#8221; Kent Hovind told to piss off by the court, what happened in the Year in ID? Not effing much. We also talk about how dangerous it is to take the bus in New York with a church lady, the romance between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;and we&#8217;re back.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/01/298</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 16 is in the can and will be posted shortly. I know I&#8217;ve been pretty quiet with the blog posts recently, but I chalk this up the the weather and the holidays. Now that it&#8217;s officially 2009 and the family isn&#8217;t calling on a near-daily basis I can turn back to wasting the time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 15: Darth Jesus</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/12/292</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/12/292#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In zee news: atheists in heaven? Clergy across the country freak out. Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays: Does it matter? Apparently it does. People get pissed when you mess with Santa and Women go &#8220;TJ Hooker&#8221; on all of Egypt. God tells man to hump daugter every day for 5 years and the Raelians run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a funadmental(ist) flaw&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/12/286</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we talked about in the last podcast Australian students in religious education classes are going to be given some education about Humanism and it will be pointed out that "there is no evidence for god. Of course Ken Ham has a bit of a reading comprehension problem, and this explains a lot about Mr. Ham, in his recent blog post he claims that Australian Students are to be taught "there is no god".]]></description>
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		<title>In response to a response to a response&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/12/279</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on my favorite blog (well besides my own) PZ Myers was kind enough to post some hate-mail he'd received over the recent Zoo/Creation museum controversy.  While Professor Myers does not respond to these directly, there was one comment I wanted to call out, and decided, since I've been lazy this week, that I'd do so here, as it is representative of a common claim from fundamentalist religious types.]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 14: Hate-free Atheism</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/12/247</link>
		<comments>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/12/247#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this episode, we talk about sexual abuse as religious therapy, expose style astronomy and the shit-heels that run the Salvation Army. Spineless principals, hypocritical censorship and the humanist counter-attack down under and finally we illustrate through song how the WBC is doing more for secularism than any atheist group could ever hope to.
In our [...]]]></description>
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