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	Comments on: Lawrence Wright goes to Nazareth; or, how Reza Aslan drove us into the arms of L. Ron Hubbard	</title>
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		By: Jgg2012		</title>
		<link>https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-2/#comment-1794571</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jgg2012]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2017 22:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9RmAo6XVAA
btw, Aslan has a history of being a factually incorrect religious apologist.]]></description>
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btw, Aslan has a history of being a factually incorrect religious apologist.</p>
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		By: janedoe2		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[janedoe2]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2017 23:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1792313&quot;&gt;Gus_Cox&lt;/a&gt;.

One interesting question re the shore story of Kendrick Moxins daughter &#039;s suicide at Int:  If she went into the transformer room to save a squirrel or something, WHO was outside nearby to see this and report this story?  It requires someone to have been there to see it.  They tell the story without any eye witness to say that is what happened.  That makes it even more of a lie.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1792313">Gus_Cox</a>.</p>
<p>One interesting question re the shore story of Kendrick Moxins daughter &#8216;s suicide at Int:  If she went into the transformer room to save a squirrel or something, WHO was outside nearby to see this and report this story?  It requires someone to have been there to see it.  They tell the story without any eye witness to say that is what happened.  That makes it even more of a lie.</p>
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		By: F_Randy_Hullabaloo		</title>
		<link>https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-2/#comment-1792502</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[F_Randy_Hullabaloo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2017 04:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I knew dymo tape was old, but I didn&#039;t think it was trillions of years old. ;-)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I knew dymo tape was old, but I didn&#8217;t think it was trillions of years old. 😉</p>
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		By: Gus_Cox		</title>
		<link>https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1792318</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gus_Cox]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2017 00:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1790158&quot;&gt;RMycroft&lt;/a&gt;.

That was the LOL of the day!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1790158">RMycroft</a>.</p>
<p>That was the LOL of the day!</p>
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		By: Gus_Cox		</title>
		<link>https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1792313</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gus_Cox]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2017 00:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1791867&quot;&gt;Joe Howard&lt;/a&gt;.

And that&#039;s all from the public records of the investigation - I couldn&#039;t make something like that up.  Many things about the Cult I can get a good laugh from, but damn, some things like this just really really get me riled up and swearing.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1791867">Joe Howard</a>.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s all from the public records of the investigation &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t make something like that up.  Many things about the Cult I can get a good laugh from, but damn, some things like this just really really get me riled up and swearing.</p>
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		By: Mockingbird		</title>
		<link>https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1791938</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mockingbird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1791795&quot;&gt;Harpoona Frittata&lt;/a&gt;.

Ah, but we all have prejudices,  even if we look like we don&#039;t.  He can seem open minded, but fit a different perspective.  He can see ALL religion as good by definition and so be the most close minded of us all. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1791795">Harpoona Frittata</a>.</p>
<p>Ah, but we all have prejudices,  even if we look like we don&#8217;t.  He can seem open minded, but fit a different perspective.  He can see ALL religion as good by definition and so be the most close minded of us all. </p>
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		By: Joe Howard		</title>
		<link>https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1791867</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Howard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1790913&quot;&gt;Gus_Cox&lt;/a&gt;.

Jesus H. Christ, I&#039;ve never read that before. Dave Bloomberg sure did not bring that up at the base briefing after her demise. What an awful way to get off the base. Poor girl.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1790913">Gus_Cox</a>.</p>
<p>Jesus H. Christ, I&#8217;ve never read that before. Dave Bloomberg sure did not bring that up at the base briefing after her demise. What an awful way to get off the base. Poor girl.</p>
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		By: Harpoona Frittata		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harpoona Frittata]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1791746&quot;&gt;Mockingbird&lt;/a&gt;.

Which is totally ironic, given the fact that going outside your own religious faith tradition to experience directly the beliefs and practices (pass the human brains, please) of other, very different, faiths than their own is pretty much the definition of being open minded about religion. 

Too bad he screwed the pooch so completely, at least so far. But with &quot;Santa Muerte&quot; up next, one gets the sense that the worst is yet to come.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1791746">Mockingbird</a>.</p>
<p>Which is totally ironic, given the fact that going outside your own religious faith tradition to experience directly the beliefs and practices (pass the human brains, please) of other, very different, faiths than their own is pretty much the definition of being open minded about religion. </p>
<p>Too bad he screwed the pooch so completely, at least so far. But with &#8220;Santa Muerte&#8221; up next, one gets the sense that the worst is yet to come.</p>
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		By: Mockingbird		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mockingbird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1791415&quot;&gt;Harpoona Frittata&lt;/a&gt;.

He may have such deeply held prejudices that to himself he was being honest. He could use confirmation bias to simply know the information against his point of view is wrong, isolated incidents any religion gets, bigoted etc. so he can dismiss criticism without looking and have certainty that he is right. 

It would probably take a lot of information from social psychology and cultic studies to get him to look if he opened his mind which is extremely unlikely. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1791415">Harpoona Frittata</a>.</p>
<p>He may have such deeply held prejudices that to himself he was being honest. He could use confirmation bias to simply know the information against his point of view is wrong, isolated incidents any religion gets, bigoted etc. so he can dismiss criticism without looking and have certainty that he is right. </p>
<p>It would probably take a lot of information from social psychology and cultic studies to get him to look if he opened his mind which is extremely unlikely. </p>
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		By: Once_Born		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Once_Born]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1791575&quot;&gt;Jgg2012&lt;/a&gt;.

If he did, he never mentioned it...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/28/lawrence-wright-goes-to-nazareth-or-how-reza-aslan-drove-us-into-the-arms-of-l-ron-hubbard/comment-page-1/#comment-1791575">Jgg2012</a>.</p>
<p>If he did, he never mentioned it&#8230;</p>
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