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		<title>I&#8217;m not afraid of the big bad church</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite Christians arguing otherwise my experience of Christianity is that it is based on fear, not grace and love as promoted. In response to my experiences in fundamentalist Christianity I try to live my life with critical thought and not make decisions based on fear. However one issue I have found hard to resolve is what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belisamasfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7392576&amp;post=154&amp;subd=belisamasfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>calling a truce</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LJ and I have been at loggerheads all morning. Apparently I am no longer his friend, I am not allowed to talk to him because I make him feel weird, I never play with him and I never buy him anything. This has all been emphasised with tears, shouting, door slamming and gritted teeth. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belisamasfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7392576&amp;post=149&amp;subd=belisamasfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>amnesty butterflies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>belisama</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://belisamasfire.wordpress.com/?p=145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve created a butterfly to get justice for the &#8220;Comfort Women&#8221; forced into sexual slavery during WWII. These women were held prisoner and raped for years on end, and when they were finally released, they were told never to speak out or they and their families would be murdered. Few of these women survive today, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belisamasfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7392576&amp;post=145&amp;subd=belisamasfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>my place on the political spectrum</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>belisama</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://belisamasfire.wordpress.com/?p=131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know quizzes are prolific on facebook, but this is the first one I have decided to take. Have a go and let&#8217;s compare results! The Political Spectrum Quiz I am a far-left moderate social libertarian. Left: 7.94, Libertarian: 1.99 The Libertarian bit surprised me, I thought I&#8217;d end up slightly on the authoritarian side. Maybe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belisamasfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7392576&amp;post=131&amp;subd=belisamasfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>taking a parenting pit stop</title>
		<link>http://belisamasfire.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/taking-a-parenting-pit-stop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>belisama</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://belisamasfire.wordpress.com/?p=126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok it’s confession time. My 4 year old son – LJ – has been making up stories for his 4 year old cousin who lives in another state. We email a story to her every few days. Liam’s last story went like this: A fighter plane and a race car have a race. The race [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belisamasfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7392576&amp;post=126&amp;subd=belisamasfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>erotica vs. pornography</title>
		<link>http://belisamasfire.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/erotica-vs-pornography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>belisama</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[on being a woman]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://belisamasfire.wordpress.com/?p=118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in the previous post I have been following a friend’s journey through her blog Din of Inequity. It is detailing her experiences of violence and misogyny.  It is brave and real and has caused me to love her even more. After reading a few of her posts and clicking on the related [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belisamasfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7392576&amp;post=118&amp;subd=belisamasfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a short prologue</title>
		<link>http://belisamasfire.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/109/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>belisama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since having children, I have come across so many occasions that have left me bewildered and asking of myself “how should I guide my boys through this?” My latest challenge is pornography, fuelled by following Din of Inequity.  My boys are only young and a long way off from being testosterone controlled teenagers, so you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belisamasfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7392576&amp;post=109&amp;subd=belisamasfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Fatemah&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://belisamasfire.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/94/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>belisama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I came across a fascinating blogger Susie of Arabia. Susie is a white, American born woman, married to a Saudi man and living in Saudi Arabia. It details her adventure of living in that closed nation. As of last week her blog has been banned in Saudi Arabia. I was reading her post titled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belisamasfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7392576&amp;post=94&amp;subd=belisamasfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>gotta love a good mag</title>
		<link>http://belisamasfire.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/82/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 10:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[came across this today while I was supposed to be writing an essay for uni *oops* The year: 1457. Somewhere in England a woman sits by the hearth, reading snippets of medical recipes, romances and a tale by Chaucer. She leisurely flips through the 73 folios, enjoying the prose. The anthology, dedicated to female readers, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belisamasfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7392576&amp;post=82&amp;subd=belisamasfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>you&#8217;re not welcome Snoop Dogg</title>
		<link>http://belisamasfire.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/73/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 04:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>belisama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tuned into Triple J the other day and found myself listening to a song with the lyrics along the lines of “taste my pussy&#8230;”  The next thing that arrested my thoughts was “how do I parent my boys to navigate through all this stuff???” Since leaving the church I have endeavoured to open my mind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belisamasfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7392576&amp;post=73&amp;subd=belisamasfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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