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	<title>Daylight Atheism &#187; Polity</title>
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		<title>Is America a Christian Nation?</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2007/10/is-america-a-christian-nation.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A frequent refrain among the religious right is that the United States of America is a "Christian nation", or that this country was founded on Christian principles. However, I've never seen any religious apologist explain what exactly this is supposed to mean beyond making the mere statement. If this nation was founded on Christian principles, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Am Not a Libertarian III</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opportunity and Obligation
One of the driving notions behind libertarian political theory is that society should be a meritocracy. By removing all restraints on competition, we will create a system where the hardest-working, most talented, most creative people succeed. And this is a good idea which I agree with. We need to encourage effort and innovation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Am Not a Libertarian II</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2007/07/why-i-am-not-a-libertarian-ii.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Positive and Negative Liberty
The second major reason why I am not a libertarian has to do with the social safety net - programs like public education, universal health care, food stamps or unemployment pay - that are funded by redistributive taxation. Hard-core libertarians decry these programs as theft or even slavery, arguing that it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Am Not a Libertarian</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2007/06/why-i-am-not-a-libertarian.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I: The Dilemma of the Commons
I don't usually post purely political essays on Daylight Atheism, as opposed to posts that touch on religion in some way. But the new series beginning with this post is personally important to me, and deserves an exception.
Though I only have anecdotal evidence, it's my experience that the majority of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Thoughts on Libertarianism</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/06/thoughts-on-libertarianism.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Politics of Atheism posts back in April inspired a healthy debate with several regular commenters who advocate a libertarian political philosophy. One of the major claims of this philosophy, defended both on this blog and by prominent libertarians such as Timothy Sandefur, is that "taxation is theft" and that any taking of property from [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>99</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Politics of Atheism III</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/04/the-politics-of-atheism-iii.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/04/the-politics-of-atheism-iii.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business &#038; the Market
In matters of economic organization, as in other areas, atheists should be guided by the evidence. One thing history has shown is that state-controlled economies simply do not work. The Soviet Union, the largest experiment in communism in human history, ultimately collapsed under the weight of its own failed economic structure, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Atheism II</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/04/the-politics-of-atheism-ii.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social Justice
As part of the compassion that we as atheists should have for all living beings, I advocate joining in efforts to end poverty. Wealth honestly earned is a powerful incentive for people to work hard and succeed, and it is not intrinsically unjust for different members of society to enjoy different levels of luxury. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Atheism I</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/04/the-politics-of-atheism-i.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/04/the-politics-of-atheism-i.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader of Daylight Atheism recently made an excellent suggestion via e-mail:
As several of your recent posts suggest, it is perhaps time for atheists to unite into a force for change. And in America, that means political change. I welcome this prospect, but believe that we should have some agreement on what changes to make [...]]]></description>
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