{"id":1378,"date":"2010-04-16T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/04\/distortion-of-jesus-message\/"},"modified":"2010-04-16T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T12:08:00","slug":"distortion-of-jesus-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/04\/distortion-of-jesus-message.html","title":{"rendered":"Distortion of Jesus&#8217; Message"},"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:\/\/zs1.smbc-comics.com\/comics\/20100414.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/zs1.smbc-comics.com\/comics\/20100414.gif\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/index.php?db=comics&amp;id=1851\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Saturday Morning\u00a0Breakfast Cereal<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2010\/04\/15\/jesus-plays-telephone\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Friendly Atheist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7258182311170124997?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Saturday Morning\u00a0Breakfast Cereal, via Friendly Atheist.<\/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-1378","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>Distortion of Jesus&#039; Message<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From Saturday Morning&nbsp;Breakfast Cereal, via Friendly Atheist.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/04\/distortion-of-jesus-message.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Distortion of Jesus&#039; Message\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Saturday Morning&nbsp;Breakfast Cereal, via Friendly Atheist.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/04\/distortion-of-jesus-message.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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