{"id":12937,"date":"2013-02-06T08:28:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T12:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/nakedpastor\/?p=12937"},"modified":"2013-02-06T12:20:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T16:20:24","slug":"mr-rogers-is-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/nakedpastor\/2013\/02\/mr-rogers-is-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Rogers is God"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_12919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12919\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/328\/2013\/02\/mr-rogers-is-god.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12919\" alt='\"Mr. Rogers is God\" by nakedpastor David Hayward' src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/328\/2013\/02\/mr-rogers-is-god-590x590.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cMr. Rogers is God\u201d by nakedpastor David Hayward<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>What if <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fred_Rogers\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mr. Rogers<\/a> was\u00a0God?<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if God is kind, gentle, gracious, who loves everyone and who we absolutely know would hurt nobody. Imagine a God who always is happy to see you and can\u2019t wait to see you again! Imagine a God who is so friendly with everyone and everything that you can\u2019t help feeling warm inside and smiling! Imagine a God so approachable that you can feel your fear, cynicism and greed melting away and being replaced by a happiness that reflected God\u2019s! Imagine a God so loving that you feel inspired to love all things as well.<\/p>\n<p>Oh\u2026 wait\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nakedpastor.etsy.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">My art is 40% OFF this week!<\/a>\u00a0(use the coupon code \u2018loveis\u2019)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if Mr. Rogers was\u00a0God? Imagine if God is kind, gentle, gracious, who loves everyone and who we absolutely know would hurt nobody. Imagine a God who always is happy to see you and can\u2019t wait to see you again! 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