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		<title>Oedipus on its Head: Spiritual-Sexuality of Male Fixation in Christianity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those not familiar with the Oedipus complex, it is a psychoanalytic theory coined by Sigmund Freud to exemplify the psychological sexual attraction of a boy towards his mother. According to Freud, this occurs in the third phallic stage of development (ages 3-6). The theory discloses the subconscious yearning for a boy to sexually possess [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hereticalreader.com&amp;blog=10657468&amp;post=741&amp;subd=robertpeoples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God the Atheist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Idolatry consists of any form of worship; whether it is material trappings or those of theological persuasion. Under the guise of anthropomorphism (god like us; a failed argument), the conceptualization of the Christian god exemplifies its disdain towards humanities vows towards other deities; this is disclosed as the first of the Ten Commandments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hereticalreader.com&amp;blog=10657468&amp;post=734&amp;subd=robertpeoples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Conviction of Visibility: Official AFFINIS Wristbands</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The visibility of support invigorates soulful resolve&#8221; -Robert Affinis Silicone wrist bands are an invaluable way to disclose the importance of societal resolve; such as cancer, Aids, Sickle Cell Anemia, the famous Live Strong by Lance Armstrong, and PETA to name a few. However, there is also a pertinent and dangerous aspect amid our youth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hereticalreader.com&amp;blog=10657468&amp;post=665&amp;subd=robertpeoples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Found God</title>
		<link>http://hereticalreader.com/2011/12/30/i-found-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time immemorial you existed without acknowledgement Without reciprocation of duty from humanity; a saturation of darkness you bathed the sky How long has it been…eons since the auspice of your life articulated upon the lips of mortals? A dim; yet, spark in a distant space reserved for your coming; my intuition tells me so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hereticalreader.com&amp;blog=10657468&amp;post=654&amp;subd=robertpeoples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glass of Life</title>
		<link>http://hereticalreader.com/2011/11/28/glass-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Who is this I see in this glass of life Is it an image of my physical or a deeper doorway to my spiritual? &#160; Who is this I see; hair locked; sprouting with the resemblance from a mane of a lion…I see my beginning &#160; I see a time when gods were not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hereticalreader.com&amp;blog=10657468&amp;post=639&amp;subd=robertpeoples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Façade of Perfection: A Love Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Souls are transparent; the existence of what is; the moment of the true How can I…what is there to find beneath the bedrock of affliction? Of familiar predictions; fictions of misinterpreted reality I stand in the breach to repair what was broken by insecure minds; feeble hearts blind; yet, too occupied with shattered mirrors of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hereticalreader.com&amp;blog=10657468&amp;post=633&amp;subd=robertpeoples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Self-Righteousness of Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; What exactly defines morality? Certainly one cannot excavate its hidden mystery through books, pamphlets, etc.—yet, through eons of opinionated power driven oligarchs, propaganda is the spoon fed vice we all have eaten from; a familiar taste indeed. Humanities moral codes have become the consensus of the majority; an esteemed programmatic virus controlling a pertinent; yet, forgotten [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hereticalreader.com&amp;blog=10657468&amp;post=626&amp;subd=robertpeoples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Live Inside One&#8217;s Head: an infant&#8217;s testimony</title>
		<link>http://hereticalreader.com/2011/10/10/to-live-inside-ones-head-an-infants-testimony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Solipsism is a philosophical term involving a narcissistic perspective about the non-existence of aspects outside of one’s own head. No other minds exist except for the one perceiving her/his particular reality. The developmental characteristics of infants incur a solipsist view of life; it is them, and them alone reeling through the valleys of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hereticalreader.com&amp;blog=10657468&amp;post=622&amp;subd=robertpeoples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Linguistic Improbability of the Word God</title>
		<link>http://hereticalreader.com/2011/09/22/the-linguistic-improbability-of-the-word-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; Theological non-cognitivism posits the improbability of articulating; quintessentially, what god is in propositional logic. I conversed with a bishop not too long ago and the query he stated was: do you believe in god? My response was: I don’t understand the question. In elementary phases of the English language, we learn propositional phrases contain truth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hereticalreader.com&amp;blog=10657468&amp;post=598&amp;subd=robertpeoples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Model Them; But Don&#8217;t Think Like Them</title>
		<link>http://hereticalreader.com/2011/08/31/model-them-but-dont-think-like-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember conversing with some family and friends some time ago about my atheistic bent. Of course, I had to hear an ear full of of theological folly , but common sense and intellect quieted the moment. However, in the same breath, I heard high adoration for the writings of W.E.B DuBois and how African American men [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hereticalreader.com&amp;blog=10657468&amp;post=565&amp;subd=robertpeoples&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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