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Another provocative cartoon by David Hayward. What do you think it means? I take it to mean that the depiction of God in theology is no more accurate than Fox News’ depictions of Obama. Could it be understood in a different way \u2013 as though theology itself is more frequently attacking God than portraying him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,101],"tags":[1010,2484,3559,4005,4871,8279,9479,12508],"class_list":["post-11187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-theology","tag-barack-obama","tag-david-hayward","tag-fox-news","tag-god","tag-humor","tag-obama","tag-president","tag-theology"],"yoast_head":"\n
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