{"id":49,"date":"2007-11-26T11:42:50","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T11:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/communitynews\/2007\/11\/this-weeks-hot-discussions-3.html"},"modified":"2007-11-26T11:42:50","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T11:42:50","slug":"this-weeks-hot-discussions-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/communitynews\/2007\/11\/this-weeks-hot-discussions-3.html","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Hot Discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=3886\">What is Racism?<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;The epithet &#8220;racist&#8221; is now so widely used that it seems to me to have been drained of meaning.&#8221;- <strong>stevenlmeyer<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=3797\">&#8216;Don&#8217;t Give Up!&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;I was at 350 pounds, and I hated it, I felt so pulled down, so tired, just wore out&#8230;the long road I had to lose the weight didn&#8217;t matter, and now I understand why I had the grace of god to do it, there is no dought in my mind that&#8217;s how I lost the weight!&#8221;- <strong>yellow rose <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=1546\">Defining &#8216;Religious Tolerance&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;What does Religious Tolerance mean to you? 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