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The End Of Humanity Would Result In End Of Meaning? We Are Thinking Atoms? Worldview Clash Revealed at The Guardian

THE GUARDIAN (TARA CONLAN)
Earth’s Demise Could Rid Galaxy of Meaning, Warns Brian Cox Ahead of Cop26

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‘Meaning Emerges From Sufficiently Complex Biological Machines’ — The Secular Worldview Attempts Definitions to Define Humanity In A Worldview Without God

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Missionaries In Haiti Kidnapped For Ransom — More Evidence of Human Sinfulness on Display

WALL STREET JOURNAL (DAVID LUHNOW AND JUAN MONTES)
Haiti Kidnapping: What Happened to the Missionaries, and Who Is the 400 Mawozo Gang?

PART 4
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Someone Who ‘Represents all North Carolinians’ Instead? Modern Ideology Of Representation Goes After Statue Of Billy Graham for U. S. Capitol

CHARLOTTE OBSERVER (SHERRI ZANN ROSENTHAL)
Billy Graham Statue at the US Capitol Won’t Represent Me, Many Others in NC

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Well, That Didn’t Take Long — OnlyFans Reverses Decision to Ban Pornography for the Sake of “Inclusion”

NPR (JOE HERNANDEZ)
Reversing A Planned Ban, OnlyFans Will Allow Pornography On Its Site After All

NEW YORK TIMES (JACOB BERNSTEIN)
OnlyFans Reverses Its Decision to Ban Explicit Content

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A Key Question: If You’re Against Those Who Reject Sexual Exploitation, Then Who Are You For?

NEW YORK TIMES (SPENCER BOKAT-LINDELL)
How OnlyFans Became the Latest Casualty of the War on Porn

THE NEW REPUBLIC (MELISSA GIRA GRANT)
Nick Kristof and the Holy War on Pornhub

PART 3
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The Death Penalty and the Liberal Crisis: Will the Biden Administration Uphold the Death Penalty Against Dylan Roof?

LA TIMES (DAVID LAUTER)
Essential Politics: American Views on ‘Culture’ Issues are Complicated. Just Look at the Death Penalty.

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