{"id":1031,"date":"2010-08-17T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/08\/michael-dowd-on-the-bankruptcy-of-biblical-christianity\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T00:02:00","slug":"michael-dowd-on-the-bankruptcy-of-biblical-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/08\/michael-dowd-on-the-bankruptcy-of-biblical-christianity.html","title":{"rendered":"Michael Dowd on the Bankruptcy of Biblical Christianity"},"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><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.storesonlinepro.com\/files\/1594177\/uploaded\/debtmentors%20ebookwatermark.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.storesonlinepro.com\/files\/1594177\/uploaded\/debtmentors%20ebookwatermark.jpg\" width=\"154\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Rev. Michael Dowd has a new blog post up entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/thankgodforevolution.com\/node\/2070\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cBiblical Christianity Is Bankrupt.\u201d<\/a> Whether you\u00a0feel that statement is obviously true or offensive and false, I would encourage you to read his post, since he has a lot of interesting things to say \u2013 even for those who spend a lot of their time pondering subjects like this one. <\/p>\n<p>This post is the latest in a <a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonablefaith.com\/2010\/08\/15\/thank-god-for-atheists\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">series<\/a> in which he interacts with <a href=\"http:\/\/mainstreambaptist.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/southern-baptists-in-intellectual-cul.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MainstreamBaptist+%28Mainstream+Baptist%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Al Mohler of the Southern Baptist Convention<\/a>. 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Michael Dowd has a new blog post up entitled \u201cBiblical Christianity Is Bankrupt.\u201d Whether you\u00a0feel that statement is obviously true or offensive and false, I would encourage you to read his post, since he has a lot of interesting things to say \u2013 even for those who spend a lot of their time pondering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","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>Michael Dowd on the Bankruptcy of Biblical Christianity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rev. 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