{"id":12569,"date":"2013-01-24T11:27:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T16:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=12569"},"modified":"2013-01-24T11:27:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T16:27:48","slug":"god-is-my-incompetent-co-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/01\/god-is-my-incompetent-co-pilot.html","title":{"rendered":"God is my Incompetent Co-Pilot?"},"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: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/01\/wpid-Photo-Jan-24-2013-1124-AM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/01\/wpid-Photo-Jan-24-2013-1124-AM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Not theologically sound. Not a good advertisement for your faith. Not an excuse for inattentive driving. FAIL on multiple counts.<\/p>\n<p>HT Anton Toth on Facebook<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not theologically sound. Not a good advertisement for your faith. Not an excuse for inattentive driving. FAIL on multiple counts. 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