David Hayward did a good job with today\u2019s cartoon<\/a>,\u00a0getting at the seeming correspondence between tragedy and increased theological nonsense and inanity (I prefer not to use his term, but some of the things people spout at times like these are so offensive that I understand why one would use it).<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/nakedpastor\/files\/2013\/04\/bullshit-meter_2-550x550.jpg\")
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Bob Cargill shared the above image of a Facebook status. And David Hayward did a good job with today\u2019s cartoon,\u00a0getting at the seeming correspondence between tragedy and increased theological nonsense and inanity (I prefer not to use his term, but some of the things people spout at times like these are so offensive that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":14058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[1298,1330,1427,1625,3280,3309,6971,12508,12815],"class_list":["post-14057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theology","tag-bombs","tag-boston","tag-bs","tag-cartoon","tag-explosion","tag-facebook","tag-marathon","tag-theology","tag-tragedy"],"yoast_head":"\n
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