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        <title><![CDATA[Blind Faith : Blind Folly]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A collection of sometimes serious, sometimes entertaining, often  wry reflections, teasers and ticklers, to help believers on the brink realize that their belief has blinded them to the vision and the truth that alone can make them free.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[ATTENTION !!! CHANGE OF BLOG ADDRESS ! ]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://faithandfolly.canalblog.com/archives/2013/08/04/27780151.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 02:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[As of N O W, to consult the blog, you must click on the following link : http://www.blindfaithblindfolly.wordpress.com All of the previous entries have been transferred to this new address. New blog entries will be posted only on this new website. I hope... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[IGNORANCE  :  NO  OBSTACLE  TO  BELIEVING  ]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://faithandfolly.canalblog.com/archives/2013/08/03/27778461.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 17:33:24 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Since the creation of this blog, readers have appreciated the numerous and numinous commentaries submitted by Thomas More's avatar, "Thom". His latest deserves the limelight of front-page publication not only here but in Sydney's "Catholic Weekly" if... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[EVER  HEARD  OF  ANTOINE  D'ABBADIA  ?]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://faithandfolly.canalblog.com/archives/2013/08/02/27774204.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 19:49:18 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[When you come across certain people, living or dead, it's not hard to be humble. The Basque-Irish savant (1810-1897) who lived in a Château in Hendaye a few miles south of my modest 'ouse on zeee beeech in Bidart, is one of those individuals. Like most... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[FRANK  THE  FIRST'S  FIRST  WYD  ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 14:14:29 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Among the millions painting Rio papal last week were Briony and Jesse, a happy couple of Australian married young professionals, whose Catholicism is their life. Briony is my grand-niece and a grand, if petite, lady. Jesse is a giant. Both did the WYD... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;DON'T DISCOURAGE DONORS' CREDULITY&quot; ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I read this cynical "phrase assassine" in a French article about miraculous chapels. The point was not to bother revealing to generous Christian souls that shrines reputed for the healing powers of the nearby rivulet were in fact already famous for the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[BIG   BANGS]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:26:08 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Bastille Day, the French National Holiday, is celebrated in Biarritz by popular music concerts, old fogies dancing to accordeon music, a lot of late-night drinking by younger generations and an 11 p.m. festival of fireworks to rival the best that Sydney... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[SMALL  IS  BEAUTIFUL ...]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2013 01:39:40 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[... but big, astronomically BIG, is incomprehensible. I have already, in the book "From Illusions to Illumination" (pp. 181-187), expressed my amazement at the beauty and size of the universe (not to say the multiverse). Not so long ago in human history,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A  MIDSUMMER  DAY'S  DREAM]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://faithandfolly.canalblog.com/archives/2013/07/07/27587236.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 11:10:39 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I have never been a Man for All Seasons. In Australia we used to say that we had only two, the wet and the dry. We may have preferred February to August, but even the latter was never the Winter of any particular discontent. Up Over, here in Europe, I... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[SUICIDE  IN  THE  CATHEDRAL]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://faithandfolly.canalblog.com/archives/2013/07/07/27587140.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 10:32:06 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The suicide in Notre Dame de Paris, May 21, 2013, will soon be forgotten, unlike a certain murder in the Cathedral of Canterbrury on December 2, 1170. Archbishop Thomas Beckett died in his empty cathedral at the hand of four knights of King Henry 2. Dominique... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;DITES,  SI  C'ETAIT  VRAI  ...&quot;]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 14:09:15 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[They used to call him, because he had been brought up in Brussels in Belgium as a bourgeois believer, the "Abbé Brel". The lyrics Jacques Brel wrote for many of his best ballads often made reference to the Catholic religion he had long since rejected.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;ELEMENTARY,  MY  DEAR  WATSON !&quot; ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 01:18:07 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Mr Holmes always found enough indisputable evidence to solve the mystery and prove the guilt of even the craftiest of criminals. He made it seem easy, obvious, elementary. We accept all sorts of things without proof. Besides subjects of debate and controversy... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;POSEIDON PROTEGE NOUS&quot;]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In the Port Vieux, the Old Port of Biarritz, there is a small shop dealing in underwater equipment for fishermen which has a metal plate hanging above the door with the inscription "Poseidon Protège Nous", "Poseidon Protect Us". Zeus' brother, the God... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[TESTIMONY  FROM  A  FORMER  BELIEVER  ON  THE  BRINK]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://faithandfolly.canalblog.com/archives/2013/06/22/27485894.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:23:24 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[THOM, the most assiduous contributor to the commentaries on this blog, has written me a letter he did not intend for publication. But as the personal testimony of his itinerary from Catholicism to atheism, it deserves, I feel, to be read by Believers... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A  SUCKER  EVERY  DAY]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://faithandfolly.canalblog.com/archives/2013/06/19/27464106.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:55:35 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I have just heard on French radio an advertisement for a bank. It consisted of the anonymous testimony of one of the bank's supposed customers actually saying that she is convinced that her banker puts her interest before his own. I hope you are smiling... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[WHAT  A  COINCIDENCE  !]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:20:47 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[We have all been part of those oneupmanship conversations where someone's anecdote, stretched out for the greatest effect, about an amazing coincidence s/he experienced, inevitably leads to the recounting of even more amazing coincidences. My favorite... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[YOUR  TURN]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://faithandfolly.canalblog.com/archives/2013/06/15/27438966.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:31:43 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[No, this is not another reminder that I would welcome any comments you may like to post on this blog concerning these Reflections (though if you do take the hint, so much the better). This time I want simply to share with you, in view of my age (76 and... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;DIEU  ET  MON  DROIT&quot;  ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:09:31 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[English-speakers around the world, and even citizens of the Mother Country, are often unaware of the historical and linguistic links between England and France. The motto on the British coat-of-arms should serve to remind us all that for three hundred... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[THE TIMELESSNESS OF ETERNITY]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://faithandfolly.canalblog.com/archives/2013/06/10/27374592.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["- A non-material entity (if one can speak in any meaningful way of an "entity" that is non-material), - which has existed forever (if one can speak of existence in anything other than a temporal and hence material sense), - and is omniscient (if one... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;INFERNO&quot;  :  HELL,  &quot; NONFIRE&quot;  ?]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://faithandfolly.canalblog.com/archives/2013/06/08/27357660.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:27:05 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Dan Brown has done it again. Inferno will not fail to disappoint his faithful fans who will find themselves in familiar territory. With another breathless chase across the city, Florence this time, another smashingly beautiful heroine, this time with... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[STICKS  AND  STONES]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://faithandfolly.canalblog.com/archives/2013/05/28/27268159.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 00:03:39 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Am I allowed to say that what someone is saying is stupid (even without saying what I probably think : that HE or SHE is stupid) ? The Bible has no hesitation in calling atheists like me fools. Galileo in his famous letter to Kepler in 1597 did not mince... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;DESTROY  RELIGION  !&quot;    REALLY  ?  ]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://faithandfolly.canalblog.com/archives/2013/05/26/27246395.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 16:58:30 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Some of my readers might think that "he insisteth too much", not only by constantly repeating the mantra, but by apparently inciting to violence ! I have already explained that the phrase is not only wishful thinking (in Latin, "desiderium privatum",... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;GOD  BLESS  MOORE&quot;]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://faithandfolly.canalblog.com/archives/2013/05/23/27228248.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 23:13:42 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[When you have lived for seven years in Oklahoma, when you have lived through and survived tornadoes in Tulsa, when you have visited personally the town of Moore before it was devastated in May 2013 by Tornado Alley winds worthy of the Apocalypse, you... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[COMPOSTELLA  :  COMPOS  MENTIS  ?]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://faithandfolly.canalblog.com/archives/2013/05/21/27212040.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 23:04:52 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[To my doctor's regret, I have never been a great walker. She would be happy if I just did my daily thirty minute constitutional. But even that is an effort, to say nothing of joining a club of fanatic, retired back-packers who trudge around the villages... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[PROVE  JUST  TWO  CLAIMS  AND  I  REST  MY  CASE  !]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://faithandfolly.canalblog.com/archives/2013/05/18/27188176.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 20:08:46 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[You can forget the interminable arguments about the existence of God, Intelligent Design, the problem of evil and the origin of moral imperatives. You can shelve all that palaver, including mine, about Jesus' divinity, His miracles, His Resurrection,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[FELLOW-ATHEISTS,  LET'S  ADMIT  THAT  GOD  EXISTS  ! ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:09:17 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I am not suggesting that we have been wrong all these years. But what if we tried to take seriously, for a moment, the opposition's arguments, to put ourselves in their moccasins, to see it their way for just as long as it takes me to compose this Reflection.... ]]></description>
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