{"id":1451,"date":"2010-03-27T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/quote-of-the-day-steve-wiggins\/"},"modified":"2010-03-27T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T08:50:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-steve-wiggins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/quote-of-the-day-steve-wiggins.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Steve Wiggins)"},"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 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #660000;font-size: large\">\u201cBible believers do not believe in the Bible. They accept the message they wish to hear, that God loves those who are rewarded with wealth, but the message of Amos they have little time for. They miss the part where the prophet calls them cows of Bashan that are fat for sacrifice. Yet when they flip out their iconic Bibles the theologically illiterate follow them to the polls. The more they pound their Bibles the more they are beating innocent victims. Be careful before becoming a Bible believer \u2013 it is not always a comfortable place to be!\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014 Steve A. Wiggins, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/sawiggins.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/27\/lying-literalists\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lying Literalists<\/a>\u201d at Sects and Violence in the Ancient World<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8259110414730011693?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBible believers do not believe in the Bible. They accept the message they wish to hear, that God loves those who are rewarded with wealth, but the message of Amos they have little time for. They miss the part where the prophet calls them cows of Bashan that are fat for sacrifice. 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