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A recent damning television exposé of a purportedly religious (Kabbalah) group has forced me to re-examine my own religious beliefs.

Many of my beliefs have been influenced not just by intellectual arguments but in a large part also by exceptional teachers. Indeed, beliefs, by definition, cannot be verified with certainty by empirical evidence. So perhaps, like members of the aforementioned religious group, I, too, have been inveigled and ultimately deceived by charismatic teachers? Maybe the beliefs that have been inculcated in me since my youth are fantastical?

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Not long ago I decided to stop off at one of London's major shopping malls to buy a gift for my wife. I was not looking for anything fancy, just something small but special. My search took me into a variety of shops with all types of novelty gifts for all types of relationships but I could not find a gift specially designed for wives. Now I may be reading too much into this, but I got the impression that while it may be cool to be someone's girlfriend or partner, getting married and becoming a wife is no longer deemed respectable by popular culture.

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While many family advocacy groups in the United States have been working over time to fight against the legal institutionalization of same sex marriage another issue has slowly crept up. The US Supreme Court is currently deciding whether the ban on polygamy amounts to religious discrimination against those Mormons who see it as a religious duty.

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This advice will impact not only our short term child/parent interactions, it will affect our children positively far into their adulthood

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