{"id":32872,"date":"2016-04-20T21:40:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T03:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=32872"},"modified":"2016-04-20T21:41:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T03:41:35","slug":"i-am-convinced-jeremy-runnells-is-the-anti-mormon-equivalent-of-a-science-denier-like-ken-ham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/04\/i-am-convinced-jeremy-runnells-is-the-anti-mormon-equivalent-of-a-science-denier-like-ken-ham.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I am convinced Jeremy Runnells is the anti-Mormon equivalent of a science-denier like Ken Ham&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32873\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/04\/KenHam.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32873\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-32873\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/04\/KenHam.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Ken Ham, Jeremy Runnells's model?\" width=\"580\" height=\"758\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Ham, creationist (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An interesting perspective \u2014 on reddit, of all places! \u2014 from Joseph Smidt:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/lds\/comments\/4fnzde\/i_am_convinced_jeremy_runnells_is_the_antimormon\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/lds\/comments\/4fnzde\/i_am_convinced_jeremy_runnells_is_the_antimormon\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/author\/robertb\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Robert Boylan<\/a> for alerting me to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before (as will inevitably happen) I\u2019m accused of piling on Mr. Runnells, I\u2019ll simply point out that he\u2019s been receiving unusual attention since his excommunication on Sunday and that, consequently, there have been a number of things posted about him across the Web. \u00a0I\u2019m just calling attention to some of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 An interesting perspective \u2014 on reddit, of all places! \u2014 from Joseph Smidt: \u00a0 https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/lds\/comments\/4fnzde\/i_am_convinced_jeremy_runnells_is_the_antimormon\/ \u00a0 Thanks to Robert Boylan for alerting me to it. \u00a0 Before (as will inevitably happen) I\u2019m accused of piling on Mr. Runnells, I\u2019ll simply point out that he\u2019s been receiving unusual attention since his excommunication on Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;I am convinced Jeremy Runnells is the anti-Mormon equivalent of a science-denier like Ken Ham&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; An interesting perspective -- on reddit, of all places! 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