{"id":10292,"date":"2012-10-23T12:36:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T16:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=10292"},"modified":"2012-10-23T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T16:36:17","slug":"who-owns-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/10\/who-owns-the-bible.html","title":{"rendered":"Who Owns the Bible?"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2012\/10\/who-owns-the-bible.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Over on her blog Love, Joy, Feminism, Libby Anne has joined in a conversation<\/a> between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/hallq\/2012\/10\/liberal-christians-awful-arguments-against-fundamentalism\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Hallq<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/10\/the-uncredible-hallq-on-liberal-christianity.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">myself<\/a> which never really took off. Perhaps this time it will. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2012\/10\/who-owns-the-bible.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Click through<\/a> to read her thoughts about the diversity among the ways that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/camelswithhammers\/2012\/06\/why-let-the-fundamentalists-define-their-religions\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">fundamentalist Christians<\/a>, liberal Christians, and atheists approach the Bible. And thank you, Libby Anne, for joining and continuing this conversation!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2012\/10\/do-you-mean-the-bible-is-inerrant-or-that-you-are-inerrant.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Libby Anne<\/a> has two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2012\/10\/a-few-more-thoughts-on-the-bible.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">other posts which are also part of the same discussion<\/a>, and she pointed out that we both missed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/hallq\/2012\/10\/reply-to-james-mcgrath\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">reply by Chris Hallq<\/a> to my response to his first post.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, below is the image that sparked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/hallq\/2012\/10\/liberal-christians-awful-arguments-against-fundamentalism\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Hallq\u2019s post<\/a>, to which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/10\/the-uncredible-hallq-on-liberal-christianity.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">I then replied here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/10\/wpid-Photo-Oct-5-2012-805-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"503\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on her blog Love, Joy, Feminism, Libby Anne has joined in a conversation between Chris Hallq and myself which never really took off. Perhaps this time it will. Click through to read her thoughts about the diversity among the ways that fundamentalist Christians, liberal Christians, and atheists approach the Bible. And thank you, Libby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,5,131,139,163],"tags":[870,871,1140,2148,3676,6527],"class_list":["post-10292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-religion","category-bible","category-christianity-religion","category-fundamentalism-religion","category-progressive-christianity-religion","tag-atheism-religion","tag-atheist","tag-bible","tag-conservative","tag-fundamentalist","tag-liberal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who Owns the Bible?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Over on her blog Love, Joy, Feminism, Libby Anne has joined in a conversation between Chris Hallq and myself which never really took off. 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